SLAPM-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated October 06, 2026

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Organization: International Business Machines Corp.

Last Updated: 2000-01-24

Category: Network Monitoring (RMON), Quality of Service

Description: Defines managed objects for Service Level Agreement performance monitoring, tracking network QoS policy compliance with per-policy statistics.

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

What Is SLAPM-MIB?

SLAPM-MIB (Service Level Agreement Performance Monitoring MIB) is a vendor-neutral SNMP module used to track compliance with network Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and quality-of-service (QoS) policies. It exposes data organized around SLA policy definitions paired with per-policy performance statistics measured against configured thresholds. In monitoring terms it is oriented toward software/policy-level status rather than hardware health, letting an operator see whether SLA thresholds such as latency, jitter, or loss are being met on an ongoing basis. It commonly works alongside other performance and QoS-related MIBs (e.g., DiffServ or RMON) since it defines the SLA policy wrapper rather than the underlying metric-collection mechanism itself. It is typically deployed in service-provider or enterprise networks that need SLA compliance reporting to customers or management, where SLAPM-MIB SNMP monitoring provides the underlying policy-vs-threshold visibility for that reporting.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in SLAPM-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
  • SLA-aware routers/switches
  • network performance monitoring probes

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll the SLA policy definition table and its paired statistics table to check whether a given policy's measured performance remains within its configured thresholds. No sample objects were extracted for this module, so exact table/object names cannot be confirmed, but the MIB conceptually organizes an SLA policy table alongside a corresponding per-policy statistics table. A sustained SLA-violation counter increment on a policy would indicate the network is failing to meet its committed service level for that SLA. This MIB is used primarily for SLA compliance reporting rather than direct device hardware monitoring.

What Can Be Monitored

  • SLA policy compliance status
  • per-policy performance statistics
  • threshold violation counts
  • SLA policy definitions
Imported Objects

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
experimental

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TestAndIncr

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using slapmPolicyCountQueries OID:

Select a device implementing SLAPM-MIB 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 slapmPolicyCountQueries into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The total number of times that a policy lookup occurred with respect to a policy agent. 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 sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline, since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Collects and monitors Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance metrics and policy rules.

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