DMTF-SYSTEMS-MIB

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Organization: Desktop Management Task Force

Last Updated: 1997-10-22

Category: Hardware Inventory

Description: Monitors system hardware and operating environment via DMTF CIM-based standards.

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What Is DMTF-SYSTEMS-MIB?

DMTF-SYSTEMS-MIB is a vendor-neutral MIB derived from the Desktop Management Task Force's DMI (Desktop Management Interface) standard, mapping DMI-style system inventory groups into SNMP objects. It exposes low-level hardware inventory and configuration data such as BIOS characteristics, bus/card slot locations and types (including legacy EISA I/O addressing), and other system component attributes. While it leans more toward inventory than live health telemetry, it supports hardware status monitoring in the sense of tracking BIOS feature flags and physical card/slot presence, useful for asset and configuration auditing on a managed system. It stands on the DMTF DMI/CIM standard rather than a specific vendor MIB, and defines its own textual conventions (e.g., DmiCounter) for representing DMI counter semantics in SNMP. It is typically found on server/desktop management agents (DMI-compliant service processors or management agents) rather than network switches or routers. Engineers can download the DMTF-SYSTEMS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in DMTF-SYSTEMS-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
  • DMI/CIM-compliant servers and desktop systems

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would walk dmtfBIOSCharacteristicTable/dmtfBIOSCharacteristicEntry to enumerate BIOS feature flags (bIOSCharacteristic, bIOSCharacteristicDescription) for compliance auditing, and check dmtfBusCardLocationTable/dmtfBusCardLocationEntry to confirm expansion card presence and bus type (busType, eISAIOAddress) matches the expected hardware configuration. A mismatch between expected and reported bus/card location entries would flag an unexpected hardware change or missing card.

What Can Be Monitored

  • BIOS characteristics/feature flags
  • bus/card slot location and type
  • EISA I/O address assignments
  • system hardware inventory
Imported Objects

From DMTF-DMI-MIB

DmiDate
DmiInteger64
DmiString
dmiCompIdOBJECT-TYPE
dmiEventAssociatedGroupOBJECT-TYPE
dmiEventDateTimeOBJECT-TYPE
dmiEventSeverityOBJECT-TYPE
dmiEventStateKeyOBJECT-TYPE
dmiEventSubSystemOBJECT-TYPE
dmiEventSystemOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
OIDs

RFC description

DMTF Systems MIB for translating DMI component instrumentation to SNMP via DMI-to-SNMP mapping.

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