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Systems Management Empire MIB Overview

The Systems Management Empire MIB modules define a collection of objects for managing host systems. The MIB is organized into groups and tables for monitoring the following types of information:

• System information
• Mounted devices
• Kernel configuration
• Streams
• Users and groups
• Processes
• Remote command execution
• Performance
• Interprocess communications (IPC)
• Buffer statistics for network buffers
• Streams buffers
• I/O buffer cache
• Directory name lookup cache
• Logical partitions
• NFS and RPC statistics
• Windows-specific statistics
• Disk and CPU statistics

The MIB also includes monitoring and object aggregation tables. You can monitor specific objects from the MIB groups and tables using self monitoring entries.

Note: Based on your local security policies, you can disable support for any table. For more information about disabling support for a table, see the “Agent Configuration” chapter.

You can create the self monitoring entries by specifying an object OID or the object class, instance, and attribute. Use the self-monitoring functionality to monitor any MIB object against a defined threshold. You can maintain object state that is based on the current retrieved value. The agent sends the state change traps when the threshold is breached. For more information, see the chapter "Self Monitoring."

The top-level OID of objects in the Systems Management Empire MIB is 1.3.6.1.4.1.546. Refer the MIB file to derive full OIDs.

This chapter contains the following information:

• List of all Systems Management Empire MIB groups and tables
• Default class values for MIB groups and tables
• Default instance values for MIB tables

To define the monitoring entries, use the default class and instance values for each group and table. The syedge.oid file maintains the default values for each attribute to be used to define a self monitor entry without specifying OID.

This chapter defines the default class for all groups, tables, and the default instance for all tables; the instance value is not required when monitoring an attribute in a MIB group. The default attribute value is the name of the MIB attribute.

Note: For more information about the reverse OID lookup feature, see the chapter "Self Monitoring."

For a detailed description of the MIB objects and individual attribute names, see the empire.asn1 file in the mib subdirectory of the agent installation.