Question 121 · 871 in bank
An administrator is attempting to add a new system to monitoring but is unsuccessful. The administrator notices the system is similar to another one on the network; however, the new one has an updated OS version. Which of the following should the administrator consider updating?
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Answer: A
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This is a very tough question, I can't find any detail to this level in any books I have. I think we can cross off C and D, leaving the answer between A & B. Baselines are usually meant for network performance, something done when setting up a new network and when adding something new to the network, like in this case. But I can't see any case where this would help the situation. MIBs on the other hand, there is not much detailed information from any of my resources. So I went to cisco support community forums, if this "VIP Mentor" is correct, then A should be the answer. They state "SNMP MIBS are not installed on the switch but used for SNMP Manager Software solutions where they can be imported for monitoring your device." I thought that MIBs would be installed on the device itself, but if it's on the monitoring software, I'd have to guess that's the problem, as it would seem to me the whole problem here is the monitoring software is old and can't read data from the device with a newer OS.
Source: Adapted from community discussion — LeonardSnart
