Re: How to construct an OID?

["Chuck Coker" <chuckc@tyrell.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Kilfoil" <ekilfoil@viawest.net>
>
> It's pretty much personal preference.  First of all, remember that things
> other than your ldap schema will be under your OID tree.
>
> For example, you may want to do something like this:
>
> enterprises.10569.1 = enterprises.yourcompany.ldapschema
>
> enterprises.10569.1.1 = enterprises.yourcompany.ldapschema.attributes
>
> enterprises.10569.1.1.1 =
> enterprises.yourcompany.ldapschema.attributes.attribute1
>
> enterprises.10569.1.2 = enterprises.yourcompany.ldapschema.objectclasses
>
> enterprises.10569.1.2.1 =
> enterprises.yourcompany.ldapschema.objectclasses.objectclass1
>
> Then... if you needed to later:
>
> enterprises.10569.2 = enterprises.yourcompany.snmpoids
>
> And of course anything else that needs an OID can fit into this as well.
> Remember that an attribute isn't neccessarily tied to just one
> objectclass.

Thank you, Eric. That makes a lot of sense.

I finally got the IANA enterprise numbers page
<ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/enterprise-numbers> to come up
this morning at home -- I have been unable to access it from work. At the
top of the page is says,
    Prefix: iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprise (1.3.6.1.4.1)
This answers my question about the prefix part of the OID.

So am I correct in assuming that the 1.3.6.1.4.1.10569 portion is a unique
identifier that will always uniquely identify me any time an OID is required
for any object, LDAP-related or not? (As long as no one else makes up a
fictitious number and happens to pick mine.)

Chuck

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Chuck Coker wrote:
>
> > I received a IANA Private Enterprise Number, 10569, but now I am not
> > sure how to construct a proper OID.
> >
> > Would I start with 1.3.6.1.4.1.10569 as the top of my "personal" tree?
> > And then build my hierarchy below that? For example,
> >     1.3.6.1.4.1.10569.1      Item 1
> >     1.3.6.1.4.1.10569.1.1    Item 1, Sub-Item 1
> >     1.3.6.1.4.1.10569.1.2    Item 1, Sub-Item 2
> >     1.3.6.1.4.1.10569.2      Item 2
> >     1.3.6.1.4.1.10569.3      Item 3
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chuck Coker