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MIBS in NPW

Hi,

Is there a table available to see which MIB is read out on FI the CPU, memory, load on an interface etc?

Thank you

Regards

Koen

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DonYonce

Dax,
The OIDs and MIB entries within Network Performance Monitor are in configuration files that are not human readable.

To answer your original question, "Which MIBs are used for CPU, Memory, etc?" ....
It depends on the type of device and what MIBs are supported by that device. When polling Cisco routers and switches for example, three different MIBs are verified and the one with the best data is used. For Windows and UNIX servers, the Host Resources MIB is used. For Foundry, the foundry specific MIBs are used, etc......

For Interfaces, either IF-MIB:ifxTable or IF-MIB-ifTable depending on the version of SNMP support on the device, 64 bit counter support AND the reliability of the 64 bit counters (many devices report bad data via 64 bit counters).

Hindsight being much better than foresight....

I wished we had made the MIBs more human readable. All newer development at SolarWinds does not make this mistake.
For example, SNMP Graph and Real-Time Interface Monitor store MIB information in XML files that are in plain english.

dos-netres

Don,

Thank you for your reply.

Reagrds.

Koen

bleearg13

If you want to know the exact OID that a currently configured device is being polled for, you could always install a network analyzer such as Ethereal (www.ethereal.com) and sniff the traffic leaving your server. If installing third-party software is against your company's policies, you could always install the native Windows Network Monitor, available in all server versions of Windows since NT4.