HP-UNIX

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Category: Device Management, Domain: Server/Host Monitoring, Vendor: HP/HPE

Description: HP SNMP MIB for monitoring HP-UX Unix system resources including processes, file systems, and performance counters.

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What Is HP-UNIX?

HP-UNIX is HP's proprietary SNMP MIB for monitoring HP-UX Unix system resources, covering system uptime, logged-in users, and detailed performance and capacity data for the host running the agent. It exposes classic Unix host-monitoring metrics: load averages over 1/5/15 minutes, maximum configured processes, physical and free memory, and swap space configuration/enabled/free amounts. This MIB is squarely focused on monitoring the software/OS-level health of the host — uptime for availability tracking, load averages for performance bottleneck detection, and memory/swap utilization for detecting memory pressure or an impending out-of-memory condition — making it a core capacity-planning and health-check MIB for HP-UX servers. It is a vendor-specific companion to (and often polled alongside) the standard HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, though it predates and supplements that IETF standard with HP-specific detail. It is deployed on HP-UX Unix server installations in enterprise data centers, typically legacy HP 9000/Integrity server environments, where HP-UNIX SNMP monitoring remains a core capacity-planning tool for these hosts.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in HP-UNIX. 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

  • HP-UX Unix server (HP 9000/Integrity)

Monitoring Examples

A monitoring system polling computerSystemAvgJobs1/5/15 alongside computerSystemFreeMemory and computerSystemFreeSwap on an HP-UX host can detect a server under sustained load with dwindling free memory and swap, an early warning of imminent thrashing or an out-of-memory kill; computerSystemUpTime confirms whether a recent unresponsive period corresponds to an unexpected reboot, and computerSystemMaxProc versus current process count flags a runaway fork bomb before it exhausts the process table.

What Can Be Monitored

  • system uptime
  • logged-in users
  • 1/5/15-minute load averages
  • free and physical memory
  • swap space configuration and free swap
  • maximum process count
Imported Objects

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter
Gauge
IpAddress
NetworkAddress
TimeTicks
enterprises

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString
OIDs

RFC description

Monitors HP Unix system metrics including uptime, user count, CPU load, processes, files systems, and network interfaces.

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