RDBMS-MIB

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Organization: IETF RDBMSMIB Working Group

Last Updated: 1994-06-15

Category: Web and Application Servers

Description: Manages Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) implementations, covering installed databases, active servers, and database-to-server relationships.

IPNetwork Monitor uses several OIDs from this MIB in network discovery and polling the applicable devices. Start monitoring RDBMS-MIB with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor.

What Is RDBMS-MIB?

RDBMS-MIB is a vendor-neutral IETF standards-based MIB (RFC 1697) that generically describes relational database management system implementations, independent of any specific database vendor, covering installed databases, the active database engine/server instances, and the relationships between them. It exposes configuration/identity data (database name, vendor name, private MIB OID reference, administrative contact) and product information (product name, version, size units), providing a common framework any RDBMS vendor can map their proprietary metrics onto. Although not primarily about physical hardware, it is squarely a software status MIB: it tracks the software version and vendor of a running database engine, which databases are installed, and lets vendors extend it (via rdbmsWellKnownLimitedResources and traps) to expose resource utilization and fault conditions such as running out of connections, disk space, or memory within the database software. It is a standalone IETF standard that vendor-specific database MIBs typically extend or reference for consistent database-instance identification. It is deployed on any server host running a relational database engine (Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, etc.) whose vendor SNMP agent implements this common schema, defined by the RDBMS-MIB RFC, alongside proprietary extensions.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in RDBMS-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

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
  • any server host running a relational database engine

Monitoring Examples

An administrator polls rdbmsDbTable/rdbmsDbEntry, indexed by rdbmsDbIndex, to read rdbmsDbVendorName and rdbmsDbName identifying which database instances are installed on a host, then cross-references rdbmsDbInfoTable/rdbmsDbInfoEntry for rdbmsDbInfoProductName and rdbmsDbInfoVersion to confirm the database software version matches what's expected after a patch rollout. If application errors suggest a database resource exhaustion issue, the admin checks objects under rdbmsWellKnownLimitedResources and watches rdbmsTraps for notifications indicating the database hit a configured resource limit.

What Can Be Monitored

  • installed database instances
  • database vendor/product name
  • database software version
  • resource-limit status/traps
Imported Objects

From NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB

applGroupsOBJECT-IDENTITY
applIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1213-MIB

mib-2

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

AutonomousType
DateAndTime
DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using rdbmsDbLimitedResourceFailures OID:

Select a database server 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 rdbmsDbLimitedResourceFailures 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 number of times the system wanted to exceed the limit of the resource since applUpTime was reset for the earliest server which has the database actively opened. 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 a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Generic relational database monitoring, providing access to database instances and their properties.

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