DISMAN-EVENT-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: IETF Distributed Management Working Group

Last Updated: 2000-10-16

Category: Alarm and Event Management

Description: Defines managed objects for configuring event triggers and actions for distributed network management, enabling automated responses to monitored conditions.

IPNetwork Monitor uses several OIDs from this MIB in network discovery and polling the applicable devices. Start monitoring DISMAN-EVENT-MIB with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor.

What Is DISMAN-EVENT-MIB?

DISMAN-EVENT-MIB is a vendor-neutral IETF Distributed Management (DISMAN) standard MIB that defines managed objects for configuring event triggers and automated actions in network management systems. It exposes objects for defining monitored resources, sampling thresholds, trigger conditions, and the actions to take when a trigger fires, rather than exposing raw device hardware data itself. Its monitoring role is meta-level: it tracks resource sampling statistics (such as instance counts and sampling minimums) and trigger failure counts, letting an agent detect when its own event-monitoring subsystem is running low on resources or a configured trigger has failed to evaluate. It works alongside other DISMAN MIBs, notably DISMAN-SCHEDULE-MIB, and general SNMP notification infrastructure (SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB) to actually deliver trap-based alerts. It is typically deployed on SNMP agents that need to autonomously watch conditions like interface errors or CPU thresholds and fire traps or logging actions without constant external polling. Engineers researching disman-event-mib specifically use its event/trigger/expression objects to build vendor-neutral, agent-side threshold monitoring without a management station having to poll constantly.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in DISMAN-EVENT-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

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer; applies to any SNMP-capable network device or management station

Monitoring Examples

An administrator can poll mteTriggerTable/mteTriggerEntry to inspect mteTriggerName, mteTriggerComment, and mteTriggerTest for each configured trigger, confirming which conditions (existence, threshold, or boolean tests) are active on the agent. The mteResourceSampleInstances and mteResourceSampleInstanceMaximum objects reveal how close the agent is to exhausting its sampling capacity, while a rising mteTriggerFailures counter indicates that a defined trigger is failing to evaluate correctly, a sign of misconfiguration or resource exhaustion in the event subsystem itself.

What Can Be Monitored

  • configured event triggers and their test type
  • resource sampling instance counts
  • sampling capacity/exhaustion
  • trigger evaluation failures
Imported Objects

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMP-TARGET-MIB

SnmpTagValue

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-MIB

sysUpTimeOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
mib-2
zeroDotZero

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using mteResourceSampleInstanceLacks OID:

Select a SNMP-capable network device or management station (vendor-neutral, DISMAN event triggers) 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 mteResourceSampleInstanceLacks into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The number of times this system could not take a new sample because that allocation would have exceeded the limit set by mteResourceSampleInstanceMaximum. 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 sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline (in instances), since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Defines event triggers and actions for distributed network management including MTE objects and notifications.

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