Wide application of IP multicast technology results in an urgent need for efficient multicast network management. After the multicast network management function is enabled, you can use a network management station (NMS) to manage multicast devices.
A multicast management information base (MIB) uses the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to manage multicast information exchanged between an NMS and agents. The multicast MIB supports basic SNMP operations, such as Get-Request, GetNext-Request, Set-Request, and Trap.