Also, a
MIB is represented as a
tree structure, making it almost
file system-like.
Another MIB example would be the BSD sysctl tree. The sysctl tree is used to maintain many of the configuration parameters of a running system (somewhat like Linux has done with procfs), and therefore shares more and more of an overlap with the SNMP MIB-space all the time. In FreeBSD soon, for example, there should be a registered place in the SNMP MIB oid for FreeBSD's sysctl tree (actually, it has already been allocated); FreeBSD's more unique configuration parameters will be part of the same MIB space.