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Monitoring with SNMP

CA Directory comes with an SNMP agent, which enables the following monitoring information:

• SNMP traps—The SNMP agent sends a trap when a particular condition is met. You can send traps to an SNMP manager or a log file.
• SNMP counters—Use an SNMP manager to poll for counters.

You can use any SNMP manager that supports the RFC1567 MIB.

The CA Directory Management Information Base (MIB) defines what can be monitored with SNMP. This MIB conforms to RFC1567 Directory Monitoring Management Information Base (MIB).

The CA Directory standard X.500 MIB includes the following information:

• dsaOpsTable—Provides summary statistics on the directory accesses, operations, and errors
• dsaEntriesTable—Provides summary statistics on the entries held by the DSA and on cache performance
• dsaIntTable—Provides useful information about the interaction of the monitored DSA with peer DSAs

In addition, the SNMP agent can also monitor the following information that is specific to CA Directory:

• Multiwrite replication
• DSA statistics
• DXcache
• Thread utilization

This is a read-only MIB, so you cannot use it for configuring a DSA.

The MIB is stored here:

DXHOME\samples\snmp