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Self Monitor Table

The Self Monitor table lets you dynamically configure the agent's self-monitoring capability to monitor any integer-based MIB variable under its control. You configure the polling interval, comparison operator (greater than, less than, equal to, and so on), threshold value, and severity, and the agent automatically monitors the MIB variable and notifies the management system with a state change trap when a threshold breach occurs. The Self Monitor table supports stateful monitoring, where the table maintains a status for each monitor, and other tables aggregate self monitors to calculate object state.

Class: monitorEntry

Instance: value of monDescr attribute for the specific self monitor entry

Use the Self Monitor table to specify an entry for any MIB variable within MIB-II, the Host Resources MIB, and the Systems Management Empire MIB. As the agent is running, the entries in the Self Monitor table also show information such as the following:

• Time at which the variable specified by the entry was last sampled
• Value of the variable
• Lowest and highest values observed
• Number of times that a trap has been sent for the entry
• Self monitor status

For more information about the attributes in the Self Monitor table and using it to monitor MIB objects, see the chapter "Self Monitoring.”