What are some good resources for understanding SNMP MIBs?

I know a little about SNMP, but not enough. I need to develop an application that can read standard SNMP MIBs and read/write the various properties. The network end is no problem, but the actual MIBs and exactly what they may contain is something of a black art to me.

I believe I should be able to use LIBSMI to 'parse' the MIBs, but I don't really understand what the output of the 'parser' is going to be, and how best to use it.

All suggestions welcome...

From stackoverflow

• At the risk of throwing you in the deep end, you might want to take a look at net-snmp. The default installation contains a number of standard mibs with their associated implementation. It also contains a utility (mib2c) that will generate boilerplate code from your mib files.

  Once you've read your way through a couple of mibs you should have no trouble familiarising yourself with the way that snmp does things.

• Most standard MIB documents were defined in corresponding RFCs published at IETF.

  http://www.ietf.org/

  Please go to this site to find more details.