GWAPIMIB

Description: GroupWise API gateway MIB for monitoring Novell GroupWise application programming interface agent status and queues.

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GWAPIMIB is a Novell GroupWise-specific MIB for monitoring the GroupWise API Gateway agent, which bridges GroupWise messaging with external or foreign email/API systems. It exposes gateway identity, uptime, link status to both the GroupWise system and the foreign messaging system, and byte and message throughput and error counters for inbound and outbound traffic. This is a software service-status MIB in essence: ngwAPIUptime tracks gateway process availability, ngwAPIGroupWiseLink and ngwAPIFrgnLink report the health of the two connections the gateway bridges, and the in/out message, byte, and error counters reveal whether mail is flowing normally or backing up or failing. Being Novell-proprietary, it has no dependency on IETF standard MIBs but is typically deployed alongside sibling GroupWise agent MIBs under the same enterprise tree. It is deployed on GroupWise gateway servers that interconnect a GroupWise domain with external mail or API systems. Engineers can download the GWAPIMIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

Polling ngwAPIGatewayName alongside ngwAPIUptime confirms which gateway instance is being queried and how long it has been running. Watching ngwAPIOutErrors and ngwAPIInErrors rise while ngwAPIOutMsgs/ngwAPIInMsgs stay flat indicates the gateway is failing to relay messages, and ngwAPIGroupWiseLink or ngwAPIFrgnLink reporting down pinpoints which side of the bridge has lost connectivity, explaining a stalled mail queue.

Monitors GroupWise API Gateway uptime, message traffic, and link status to GroupWise and foreign systems.