ART-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: NetScout Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 1999-10-05

Category: Network Monitoring (RMON)

Description: Application response time measurement for SLA monitoring and end-user experience management.

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What Is ART-MIB?

ART-MIB (Application Response Time MIB) is a vendor-associated but broadly adopted MIB - originally from NetScout/Frontier Software, visible in its 'frontier'/'netscout2' object roots - used for measuring application response time to support SLA monitoring and end-user experience management. It exposes a protocol directory table identifying monitored application protocols and a control table that lets an operator configure and run response-time measurement instances, including data source, measurement duration, and time-remaining for a given test. Rather than raw hardware sensors, this MIB monitors software/service performance status: it captures multiple response-time samples (artControlRspTime1/2/3) for a monitored transaction, letting administrators detect application-layer slowdowns that hardware-level metrics like CPU or interface counters would not directly reveal. It depends on an IETF PROTOCOL-DIRECTORY-MIB-style structure (evident from protocolDir2Table) for identifying which protocols are being measured. It is deployed on network probes, RMON2-capable monitoring appliances, or NetScout-style performance-monitoring systems embedded in enterprise or service-provider networks. Engineers can download the ART-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in ART-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • NetScout/Frontier-style RMON2 performance-monitoring probe or appliance

Monitoring Examples

A performance engineer can poll artControlTable / artControlEntry, setting artControlDataSource and artControlDuration to define a measurement run, then track artControlTimeRemaining to see when results will be ready. The resulting artControlRspTime1, artControlRspTime2, and artControlRspTime3 values (successive response-time samples) reveal whether an application's response time is trending upward, indicating a developing performance problem, while protocolDir2Table cross-references which protocol (via protocolDir2ArtConfig) is bound to a given ART control instance.

What Can Be Monitored

  • response time samples
  • measurement duration/time remaining
  • data source configuration
  • monitored protocol identity
  • application response-time trend
Imported Objects

From RMON-MIB

OwnerString

From RMON2-MIB

DataSource
protocolDirEntryOBJECT-TYPE
protocolDirLocalIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TimeStamp

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using artControlDroppedFrames OID:

Select an RMON2 performance-monitoring probes/appliance (NetScout/Frontier-style) as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type artControlDroppedFrames into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. The total number of frames which were received by the probe and therefore not accounted for in the *StatsDropEvents, but for which the probe chose not to count for this entry for whatever reason. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Extends RMON-2 monitoring with Application Response Time measurement capabilities by augmenting the protocol directory table.

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