While navigating few informational sites today I came across a wonderful piece of information which I personally found worth sharing with everybody. Today most of the Network Management Solutions (NMS) accepts Management Information Base (MIB) import after which you starting managing your devices from the NMS or even if you are aware of MIB & OID structure with some knowledge of programming, You can design your very own basic NMS. Anyways to cut the long story short I found out that Cisco maintains a FTP server with open access for everyone to distribute MIB for all their devices.
Anybody can login into that server and download the required MIBs along with some freely distributable softwares. below is the snapshot of access to the FTP server. This server could be accessed via URL -
ftp://ftp.cisco.com
Command line geeks can also access this FTP server via command line but in that case it would prompt for the authentication. So, here goes the credentials to access that -
Username: ftp
password: <Your Valid Email ID>
From there it can be accessed using FTP commands.