pingCtlOwnerIndex

DISMAN-PING-MIB · .1.3.6.1.2.1.80.1.2.1.1

Object

column OctetString
To facilitate the provisioning of access control by a
security administrator using the View-Based Access
Control Model (RFC 2575, VACM) for tables in which
multiple users may need to create or
modify entries independently, the initial index is used
as an 'owner index'.  Such an initial index has a syntax
of SnmpAdminString and can thus be trivially mapped to a
securityName or groupName defined in VACM, in
accordance with a security policy.
              
When used in conjunction with such a security policy, all
entries in the table belonging to a particular user (or
group) will have the same value for this initial index.
For a given user's entries in a particular table, the
object identifiers for the information in these entries
will have the same subidentifiers (except for the 'column'
subidentifier) up to the end of the encoded owner index.
To configure VACM to permit access to this portion of the
table, one would create vacmViewTreeFamilyTable entries
with the value of vacmViewTreeFamilySubtree including
the owner index portion, and vacmViewTreeFamilyMask
'wildcarding' the column subidentifier.  More elaborate
configurations are possible.

Context

MIB
DISMAN-PING-MIB
OID
.1.3.6.1.2.1.80.1.2.1.1
Type
column
Access
noaccess
Status
current
Parent
pingCtlEntry
Table
pingCtlTable
Siblings
22

Syntax

OctetString

Values & Constraints

Object Constraints
range: 0-32

Related Objects

Sibling Objects