Management information base and method in an OSI management system

摘要

Contained relationship between instances of a Management Information Base under OSI management, such as parent-child or brother-brother relationships are retained in containment relationship files, which are prepared for each depth level of a containment tree. Management information of the instances are stored in instance files, which are separated for each managed object class. A file storing the containment relationship points to the management information in the instance file with a pointer. The instance file stores the maximum number of attributes and the maximum attribute size and the update time for the management information of each instance.