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Category: Network Management
Description: Monitors console port activity, session status, and access logs on network management servers.
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What Is Console-Monitoring-MIB?
Console-Monitoring-MIB is a Siemens-specific MIB (Siemens AG, enterprise OID sni.sniProductMibs.sniAppMon.appConsMon) for the BS2000 Console Monitoring application, which lets an SNMP manager issue and read results from BS2000 mainframe operator-console commands rather than monitor generic network device consoles. Its consMonBS2Group exposes a consMonCmdTable (indexed by consMonCmdIndex) where a manager writes a BS2000 console command (consMonCmd) and polls consMonCmdResult (none/executing/ok/error/waiting) and consMonCmdMainRetco for completion status, alongside a consMonOutTable that returns the command's output line by line, and consMonBS2Ans for answering interactive BS2000 console messages. Because command execution state and return codes are exposed per table row, this MIB is useful for monitoring whether SNMP-issued BS2000 console commands complete successfully or return errors, and for tracking message-filter configuration (consMonMsgFilter, consMonNegMsgFilter) that controls which BS2000 messages get forwarded as traps. It depends on standard RFC1155-SMI/RFC1213-MIB imports and is deployed alongside Siemens BS2000 mainframe systems and their SNMP-based application monitoring agent, and administrators researching this niche module often check the Console-Monitoring-MIB SNMP monitoring capabilities before scripting remote console command execution.
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Supported Devices
- Siemens BS2000 mainframe systems (console monitoring application agent)
Monitoring Examples
An operator writes a BS2000 command into consMonCmd for a given consMonCmdIndex and polls consMonCmdResult; a result of error(4) together with a non-zero consMonCmdMainRetco would indicate the console command failed and needs investigation before retrying.
What Can Be Monitored
- console command execution result/status
- console command return code
- command output line table
- message filter configuration
- negative (suppressed) message filter
- interactive console message answer state
Imported Objects
OIDs
RFC description
Siemens BS2000 system console message monitoring and filtering for centralized log management.
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