Solved: What is MIB - Cisco Community A MIB (management information base) is a database structure of device stats, the device keeps on (or about) itself Parts of the MIB are defined by RFC standards, other parts are vendor (optional) extensions (the structure for the latter, but not the content, is still part of the RFC standards)
SNMP MIBs and Traps on the ASA - Additional Information The MIB table index should be unique for the agent to identify a row from the MIB table The table index for ip ipAddrTable is the interface IP address, so the IP address should be unique; otherwise, the SNMP agent becomes confused and may return information of another interface (row), which has the same IP address (index)