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Mnesia
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Chapters

- Introduction
  - Top of chapter
  - About Mnesia
  - The Mnesia DataBase Management System (DBMS)
- Getting Started with Mnesia
  - Top of chapter
  - Starting Mnesia for the first time
  - An Introductory Example
- Building A Mnesia Database
  - Top of chapter
  - Defining a Schema
  - The Data Model
  - Starting Mnesia
  - Creating New Tables
- Transactions and Other Access Contexts
  - Top of chapter
  - Transaction Properties
  - Locking
  - Dirty Operations
  - Record Names versus Table Names
  - Activity Concept and Various Access Contexts
  - Nested transactions
  - Pattern Matching
  - Iteration
- Miscellaneous Mnesia Features
  - Top of chapter
  - Indexing
  - Distribution and Fault Tolerance
  - Table Fragmentation
  - Local Content Tables
  - Disc-less Nodes
  - More Schema Management
  - Mnesia Event Handling
  - Debugging Mnesia Applications
  - Concurrent Processes in Mnesia
  - Prototyping
  - Object Based Programming with Mnesia
- Mnesia System Information
  - Top of chapter
  - Database Configuration Data
  - Core Dumps
  - Dumping Tables
  - Checkpoints
  - Files
  - Loading of Tables at Start-up
  - Recovery from Communication Failure
  - Recovery of Transactions
  - Backup, Fallback, and Disaster Recovery
- Combining Mnesia with SNMP
  - Top of chapter
  - Combining Mnesia and SNMP
- Appendix A: Mnesia Error Messages
  - Top of chapter
  - Errors in Mnesia
- Appendix B: The Backup Call Back Interface
  - Top of chapter
  - mnesia_backup callback behavior
- Appendix C: The Activity Access Call Back Interface
  - Top of chapter
  - mnesia_access callback behavior
- Appendix D: The Fragmented Table Hashing Call Back Interface
  - Top of chapter
  - mnesia_frag_hash callback behavior

# 7 Combining Mnesia with SNMP

### 7.1 Combining Mnesia and SNMP

Many telecommunications applications must be controlled and reconfigured remotely. It is sometimes an advantage to perform this remote control with an open protocol such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The alternatives to this would be:

- Not being able to control the application remotely at all.
- Using a proprietary control protocol.
- Using a bridge which maps control messages in a proprietary protocol to a standardized management protocol and vice versa.

All of these approaches have different advantages and disadvantages. Mnesia applications can easily be opened to the SNMP protocol. It is possible to establish a direct one-to-one mapping between Mnesia tables and SNMP tables. This means that a Mnesia table can be configured to be both a Mnesia table and an SNMP table. A number of functions to control this behavior are described in the Mnesia reference manual.