PROCESS-DETAILS-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB

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Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Last Updated: 1999-07-20

Category: System Management

Description: Delivers process-level detail monitoring for Sun Management Center, covering CPU usage, memory consumption, and process state.

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What Is PROCESS-DETAILS-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB?

PROCESS-DETAILS-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB is part of Sun Microsystems' Sun Management Center (SunMC) suite for monitoring Solaris systems, focused specifically on per-process detail reporting. It exposes a process table listing the most CPU- and memory-intensive processes on the host, configurable by the agent to show the top 10, 20, or 50 offenders. This makes it a direct software-status monitoring tool: it reports process IDs, parent/owner identity, session and process-group membership, and controlling terminal, which together let an administrator detect runaway processes, unexpected process ownership, or abnormal process counts consuming CPU/memory on a Solaris host. It is a Sun/Solaris-specific extension that complements the more general host-resource MIBs (such as HOST-RESOURCES-MIB) rather than replacing them. It is deployed in Solaris data-center environments running the Sun Management Center agent for system-level performance and process oversight. Engineers can download the PROCESS-DETAILS-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in PROCESS-DETAILS-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-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

Sun/Solaris server running Sun Management Center (SunMC) agent

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would walk processTable/processTableEntry and inspect psProcessID alongside psUserName, psEUserID, and psParentProcessID to identify which user's process is consuming excessive CPU or memory among the top N processes the agent is configured to report. Correlating psSessionID and psProcessGroupID with psControlTTY can reveal whether a runaway process originated from an interactive shell session versus a background job. A sudden spike in the number of entries owned by an unexpected psUserID would flag a misbehaving or unauthorized process.

What Can Be Monitored

top CPU-consuming processes
top memory-consuming processes
process owner (user/group ID)
parent process ID
session and process group ID
controlling terminal

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-CONF

OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using psSize OID:

Select a Sun/Solaris server running Sun Management Center agent (top-process detail) 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 psSize 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. The image size( in number of pages) of the swappable process in the main memory. 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 the count changes from its expected baseline, since that would indicate the underlying set of items changed unexpectedly. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
sun	1.3.6.1.4.1.42
prod	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2
sunsymon	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12
agent	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2
modules	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2
processDetails	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13			The solaris process detail allows to monitor the top 10,20,50 processes that are CPU/Memory intensive. This criteria is part of the agent configuration.
processTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1		not-accessible	This table shows the monitoring information for processes running on the host. Each row in this table corresponds to a process.
processTableEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1		not-accessible	Information about one process.
I32 psProcessID	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.1	Integer32	read-only	The process ID of the process.
I32 psParentProcessID	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.2	Integer32	read-only	The parent process Id of the process.
I32 psUserID	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.3	Integer32	read-only	The user ID of the process owner.
STR psUserName	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	The user ID of the process owner. This is the login name of the process owner.
I32 psEUserID	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.5	Integer32	read-only	The effective user ID of the process.
I32 psGroupID	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.6	Integer32	read-only	The group ID of the process owner.
I32 psEGroupID	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.7	Integer32	read-only	The effective group ID of the process .
I32 psSessionID	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.8	Integer32	read-only	Session Id of the process.
I32 psProcessGroupID	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.9	Integer32	read-only	Process group ID of the process.
STR psControlTTY	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.10	DisplayString	read-only	The controlling terminal for the process (when there is no controlling terminal, this value will be '?').
STR psStartTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.11	DisplayString	read-only	The starting time of the process, given in hours, minutes, and seconds.
STR psExecutionTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.12	DisplayString	read-only	The cumulative execution time for the process.
STR psState	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.13	DisplayString	read-only	The state of the process: O Process is running on a processor. S Sleeping: process is waiting for an event to complete. R Runnable: process is on run queue. I Idle: process is being created. Z Zombie state: process terminated and parent not waiting. T Traced: process stopped by a signal because parent is tracing it. X SXBRK state: process is waiting for more primary memory.
STR psWaitChannel	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.14	DisplayString	read-only	The address of an event for which the process is sleeping, or in SXBRK state, (if the process is running, this value is blank).
STR psSchedulingClass	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.15	DisplayString	read-only	Scheduling class of the process.
STR psAddress	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.16	DisplayString	read-only	The memory address of the process.
I32 psSizeEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.17	Integer32	read-only	The image size( in number of pages) of the swappable process in the main memory.
I32 psPriority	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.18	Integer32	read-only	The priority of the process. Higher numbers mean higher priority.
I32 psNice	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.19	Integer32	read-only	Nice value, used in computing priority. Only processes in the time-sharing class have a value for nice.
STR psPercentCPUTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.20	DisplayString	read-only	Percent of CPU time being consumed by the process.
STR psPercentMemory	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.21	DisplayString	read-only	Percent of memory being consumed by the process.
STR psCommand	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.22	DisplayString	read-only	The command name by which the process was started.
STR psCommandLine	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.23	DisplayString	read-only	Full command line, with command arguments, by which the process was started.
STR psZoneID	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.13.1.1.24	DisplayString	read-only	Process Zone ID.

RFC description

Provides Sun Management Center process-level detail monitoring including CPU usage, memory consumption, and process state.

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