IBM-AIX-MIB

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Organization: IBM

Last Updated: 2004-02-18

Category: Domain: Server/Host Monitoring, Vendor: IBM

Description: IBM MIB for monitoring AIX operating system metrics including CPU utilization, memory, and OS-level performance counters.

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What Is IBM-AIX-MIB?

IBM-AIX-MIB is an IBM proprietary MIB (enterprise OID 2) for managing AIX Unix systems, modeling physical/logical storage devices (printers, tape, hard disk, memory, SCSI adapters, CD-ROM), volume groups/physical and logical volumes/paging space, and print spooling, alongside a remote-command-execution facility. Its agent-action objects let a management station submit a command string for the agent to execute and retrieve the result, while separate poll-interval objects govern filesystem and CPU polling frequency. As a hardware/software-status MIB it lets an administrator both monitor AIX system resources and remotely trigger diagnostic commands via SNMP. It is deployed on IBM AIX Unix servers. Engineers can download the IBM-AIX-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in IBM-AIX-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

  • IBM AIX Unix servers

Monitoring Examples

An administrator sets aixAgentCmdString and triggers aixAgentExeCommand to run a remote diagnostic command on an AIX server, then reads aixAgentCmdResult to retrieve the output via SNMP.

What Can Be Monitored

  • filesystem/CPU polling
  • remote command execution results
Imported Objects

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
enterprises
OIDs

RFC description

Manages AIX system components including devices, storage, users, processes, and network services.

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