PROCESS-MONITOR-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB

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Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Last Updated: 1999-08-03

Description: Sun Management Center MIB for monitoring health and statistics of user-defined processes running on Sun Solaris hosts via SNMP

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What Is PROCESS-MONITOR-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB?

PROCESS-MONITOR-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB is a Sun Microsystems proprietary MIB (enterprise OID 42) monitoring the health of specific processes on a host via Sun Management Center (SMC), designed for multi-instance use via SNMPv2 contexts (or, for SNMPv1, a community-string-plus-context convention). Its process table records name, command/argument regex match, UID spec, description, monitoring state, command name, percent CPU time, memory size/RSS, process count, and system/user time, while a companion accounting table adds CPU wait time, page-fault times, major faults, character I/O, and context switches. As a performance/status MIB it lets an administrator confirm a specific named process (matched by regex) is running and watch its resource consumption. It is deployed on hosts monitored via Sun Management Center. Engineers can download the PROCESS-MONITOR-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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

Hosts monitored via Sun Management Center

Monitoring Examples

An administrator monitors pmProcPctCPUTime for a critical application process matched by pmProcCommandNameRX to catch resource exhaustion before it affects service on a Sun Management Center-monitored host.

What Can Be Monitored

named process CPU/memory usage and monitoring state

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-CONF

OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using pmProcSize OID:

Select a host monitored via Sun Management Center (named-process health) 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 pmProcSize 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 total size of all the processes in this group. 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 value drifts significantly from its normal baseline, since an unexpected change often points to a real underlying issue. 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
processMonitor	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20			The process monitoring allows to monitor the health of one or more processes running on the local host. SNMPv2 uses the term 'context' for the MIBs that can have multiple instances running on the Agent. If you are using a SNMPv2 based thirdparty management station to communicate with such an agent, then make sure that you are using the right context information. However, if you are using SNMPv1 based management station, then add the context information to the SNMP community as follows ':' This will enable you to access data from multiple instances of the same module running on an agent.
pmProcstatsGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1			Processes related statistics.
pmProcTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1		not-accessible	Table of entries having information about a group of processes.
pmProcEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1		not-accessible	Information about a group of processes.
ROW pmRowStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.1	RowStatus	read-write	The row status.
STR pmProcEntryName	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.2	DisplayString	read-only	The process entry name that is unique within the table. This name represents process(es) grouped depending upon process user id and regular expressions for process command name adn process argument.
STR pmProcCommandNameRX	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.3	DisplayString	read-write	The process command name regular expression pattern. This is used as a filter expression and the proceses having command name matching this expression are selected.
STR pmProcArgumentRX	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.4	DisplayString	read-write	The process argument regular expression pattern. This is used as a filter expression and the proceses having argument matching this expression are selected.
STR pmProcUIDspec	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.5	DisplayString	read-write	User ID of the process.
STR pmProcEntryDesc	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.6	DisplayString	read-write	The description of the process entry.
STR pmProcMonitoringState	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.7	DisplayString	read-only	The monitoring state of the entry. The value is ON when the row entry is enabled and OFF when the row entry is disabled.
STR pmProcCommandName	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.8	DisplayString	read-only	The process command name.
STR pmProcPctCPUTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.9	DisplayString	read-only	The percent CPU used by all the processes in this group.
I32 pmProcSizeEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.10	Integer32	read-only	The total size of all the processes in this group.
I32 pmProcRSS	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.11	Integer32	read-only	The resident size of all the processes in this group.
I32 pmProcCount	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.12	Integer32	read-only	The number of the processes in this group.
STR pmSystemTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.13	DisplayString	read-only	The percent CPU used by the processes doing system calls.
STR pmUserTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.1.1.14	DisplayString	read-only	The percent CPU used by the processes doing user level operations.
pmProcAcctTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2		not-accessible	Table of entries having accounting information about processes.
pmProcAcctEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1		not-accessible	Information about processes.
STR pmAcctProcName	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.1	DisplayString	read-only	The name of the entry
STR pmAcctProcCpuwaittime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.2	DisplayString	read-only	CPU wait time
STR pmAcctTextpftime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.3	DisplayString	read-only	Text page fault sleep time
STR pmAcctDatapftime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	Data page fault sleep time
STR pmAcctMajfaults	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.5	DisplayString	read-only	Major page faults
STR pmAcctCharios	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.6	DisplayString	read-only	Characters read and written
STR pmAcctIcontexts	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.7	DisplayString	read-only	Involuntary context switches
STR pmAcctChildtime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.8	DisplayString	read-only	CPU time for reaped children
STR pmAcctUserlocktime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.9	DisplayString	read-only	User lock time
STR pmAcctTraptime	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.10	DisplayString	read-only	System trap time
STR pmAcctTotalswaps	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.11	DisplayString	read-only	Total swaps
STR pmAcctDesc	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.12	DisplayString	read-only	The description of the entry
STR pmAcctProcrule1	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.13	DisplayString	read-only	Memory shortage Rule
STR pmAcctProcrule2	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.20.1.2.1.14	DisplayString	read-only	File access rule

RFC description

Sun Management Center process monitoring MIB for tracking health of processes running on host systems.

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