Re: OIDs

[Bruno Salgueiro <bs@sibs.pt>]

Thank you all for your answers. I think you are quite right regarding
the OIDs issue.

BTW, if someone can help me migrating data from one LDAP server (really
a X.500 gateway) to OpenLDAP, please do! :)

Best regards,

Dave Carrigan wrote:
> 
> Bruno Salgueiro <bs@sibs.pt> writes:
> 
> > I'm sorry, but that OID that you register in the IANA site is only
> > for SNMP, am I right? If this is true, the OIDs assigned should/must
> > only be used to identify objects or data in the SNMP protocol, not
> > in LDAP...
> >
> > If you want a generic company OID you should ask it to ITU, isn't it
> > so?
> 
> No, an OID can be used for anything; all it is is a globally unique
> identifier, and snmp or ldap certainly don't care what the identifier
> looks like, as long as it is unique.
> 
> We were assigned an OID from the IANA of 1.3.6.1.4.1.5780. We then
> divided it thus:
> 
>  1.3.6.1.4.1.5780.1     ldap
>  1.3.6.1.4.1.5780.1.1   object classes
>  1.3.6.1.4.1.5780.1.2   attributes
>  1.3.6.1.4.1.5780.1.3   syntaxes
>  1.3.6.1.4.1.5780.2     snmp
>  1.3.6.1.4.1.5780.2.1   mysql mib (locally developed)
> 
> If we start using other technologies that use OIDs, we'll just add more
> branches.
> 
> --
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