## 1 Introduction

### 1.1 Purpose

The purpose of the otp_mibs application is to provide an SNMP management information base for Erlang/OTP nodes without making the core Erlang/OTP dependent on SNMP, as Erlang/OTP has many uses and not everybody wants to use SNMP.

### 1.2 Pre-requisites

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language, concepts of OTP and has a basic knowledge of SNMP.

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