HOST-RESOURCES-V2-MIB

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Organization: IETF Host Resources MIB Working Group

Last Updated: 1998-03-07

Category: Domain: Server/Host Monitoring

Description: Vendor extension to HOST-RESOURCES-MIB (RFC 2790) providing additional host resource monitoring objects for system management.

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What Is HOST-RESOURCES-V2-MIB?

HOST-RESOURCES-V2-MIB is a vendor extension supplementing the IETF standard HOST-RESOURCES-MIB (RFC 2790), adding further objects for host computer management beyond what the base standard defines. As an extension of the Host Resources framework, it is intended to cover general host-level management data applicable across operating systems and hardware architectures, independent of any specific vendor's network stack. Its purpose is squarely hardware/software status monitoring: the base HOST-RESOURCES-MIB family covers system uptime, storage/disk usage, running processes, installed software, and device status, and this V2 extension supplements those categories with additional host attributes. It has an explicit, direct dependency on RFC 2790 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, whose System and Interface groups it builds upon. Consulting the HOST-RESOURCES-V2-MIB RFC alongside RFC 2790 is useful when deploying it on general-purpose servers, workstations, or any managed host running an SNMP agent that exposes OS-level resource data to a network management system.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in HOST-RESOURCES-V2-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
  • general-purpose host computers/servers running an SNMP agent

Monitoring Examples

No concrete object names were available in the source sample for this module, so specific polling scenarios cannot be described from the provided data; conceptually, an admin using the parent HOST-RESOURCES-MIB framework would poll analogues of hrSystemUptime, hrStorageTable, and hrSWRunTable, and this V2 extension would supply additional host attributes alongside them. Without sample objects, no invented object names are given here to avoid misrepresenting the module's actual contents.

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using hrStorageUsed OID:

Select a host computer or server running an SNMP agent 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 hrStorageUsed into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. It reports the amount of this storage entry currently allocated, in the storage's own allocation units. 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 an Integer32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if usage approaches the storage's total capacity (e.g. above 85-90%), since running low on storage can cause application or logging failures. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

See also: hrSystemUptime

OIDs

RFC description

Defines a uniform set of managed objects for host computer management — covering system information, storage resources, devices, running software, installed software, and file systems — as specified in the IETF Internet Draft draft-krupczak-hostmibv2-01 (1998/1999), a proposed Version 2 revision that was never published as an RFC; the official update to RFC 1514 was instead published as RFC 2790 (HOST-RESOURCES-MIB).

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