Enabling SNMP monitoring for your appliance

Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP) monitoring can be enabled for your IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliance. You can download the management information bases (MIBs) provided on the appliance to specify the SNMP data available to the SNMP client.

Before you begin

Configure an SNMP client before completing these steps. These steps can be completed without an SNMP client configured, but SNMP monitoring can only be used if a client has been configured.WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance supports SNMP version 2vc.

About this task

SNMP monitoring is not enabled for IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance by default. The SNMP settings are unique to the appliance and do not get propagated among the other appliances in the collective.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Monitoring panel. In the IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance user interface, click Appliance > SNMP Settings.
  2. Select the check box to enable SNMP monitoring. If you want to disable SNMP monitoring, clear the check box.
  3. Download the Management Information Base (MIB) files that are available on the appliance.

    The Enterprise MIB files describe what functions and data are available from the embedded SNMP agent so that your client can appropriately access them. The client can issue SNMP GET, GET-NEXT and GET-BULK commands. You can download the MIB files and import them into your client to access data beyond the base MIB-II data definitions. Expand Enterprise MIBs, and click the name of each MIB to download the MIB from the appliance.

    Statistics MIB
    The Statistics MIB includes information that is similar to the statistics that you can see with the user interface monitoring functionality. The MIB also includes Java™ virtual machine (JVM) statistics.
    HW Status MIB
    The HW status MIB includes information about the state of the hardware, including temperatures, date and time, and so on.
    [Version 2.1 and later] HW Notifications MIB

    The HW Notifications MIB is used to define the information available for SNMP TRAP commands.

Results

After completing these steps, you have enabled SNMP monitoring for your appliance and downloaded the MIB data for your SNMP client.

What to do next

Use your SNMP client to view the MIB data.
Remember: Because the SNMP statistics are provided for a single appliance, the reported values are different from the values that are reported by the monitoring panels in the user interface. The user interface reports data on the collective. For example, a value in the SNMP statistics gridStats table, mapStats table, or jvmStats table is a subset of the total value that is reported in the user interface.