Description: This MIB module defines a set of objects that allow to define a health check procedure on a managed node. The health check procedure is performed through a sequence of simple comparison operations on some managed objects against a control value. The result of the health check is accumulated into a single managed object that can be read by a manager to discover the status of the whole set of managed objects instead of retrieving all the single values controlled during the health check procedure.

The main purpose of the CHECK-MIB is increasing scalability of network management applications by moving check operations from the management station to managed nodes.

There are five groups of managed objects defined by this MIB module: - objects describing capabilities of the CHECK-MIB implementation; - objects controlling the operational status of the health check procedure; - objects defining the checks in the checkResultTable; - objects defining the operations for each of the configured checks in the checkRuleTable; - objects providing information about failed checks.