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Category: Domain: Server Hardware, Vendor: IBM
Description: IBM MIB covering configuration and statistics monitoring of network adapters on IBM server systems.
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What Is IBM-SYSTEM-NETWORK-MIB?
IBM-SYSTEM-NETWORK-MIB is an IBM enterprise MIB for monitoring the network adapters installed in IBM server systems (e.g., IBM Power or System p/i servers), covering the systems/servers technology area rather than a specific switch or router product. It exposes a logical network adapter table describing each adapter's identity, description, device ID, and operational status alongside traffic counters. This is squarely software/hardware status monitoring for server NICs: administrators can check ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterStatus to see if an adapter is up, and use the octets-received/transmitted counters and configured speed to gauge throughput and detect performance problems. As an IBM-specific server MIB it typically complements the standard IF-MIB on the same host rather than replacing it, since both may describe overlapping adapter-level data. It is deployed on IBM server hardware running AIX or IBM-managed operating environments where logical network adapters need vendor-specific visibility, and IBM-SYSTEM-NETWORK-MIB SNMP monitoring supplies that visibility alongside the standard IF-MIB data.
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Supported Devices
- IBM server system (e.g., Power/System p or i server)
Monitoring Examples
The ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterTable/Entry, indexed by ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterKeyIndex, exposes ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterName, ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterDescription, and ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterDeviceID for adapter identification. An administrator would poll ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterStatus together with ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterOctetsReceived/Transmitted to detect an adapter that has gone down or one whose traffic counters have stopped incrementing, indicating a failed or disconnected NIC; ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterSpeed and ibmSystemLogicalNetworkAdapterPermanentAddress round out the inventory picture.
What Can Be Monitored
- network adapter operational status
- octets received/transmitted
- adapter speed
- adapter permanent (MAC) address
- adapter description/device ID
Imported Objects
From IBM-SYSTEM-MIB
| Boolean | |
| Datetime | |
| Real32 | |
| Real64 | |
| Sint16 | |
| Sint32 | |
| Sint64 | |
| Sint8 | |
| String | |
| Uint16 | |
| Uint32 | |
| Uint64 | |
| Uint8 | |
| ibmSystemNetwork | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From RFC-1212
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From RFC-1215
| TRAP-TYPE |
OIDs
RFC description
IBM MIB for monitoring network adapter configuration and statistics on IBM server systems.
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