The SNMP manager or management application uses this well-defined OID naming
syntax to indicate objects on which it intends to perform one of the aforementioned
operations. To this end, every SNMP protocol message includes an OID and an
operation to perform on that OID, as well as perhaps a value to set said OID to.
The management information base, or MIB, is a conceptual store within a device containing all
of the MIB modules that a device supports.