VELOCITY-MIB

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Organization: Velocity Software Inc.

Last Updated: 2006-07-31

Category: Host and System Monitoring

Description: Monitors Velocity Software workload management, job scheduling, and resource utilization on mainframes.

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What Is VELOCITY-MIB?

This MIB, from Velocity Software (a vendor known for mainframe/z-VM performance monitoring), is described as an extension of the standard Host Resources MIB concept and, per its module description, is currently implemented only for Linux hosts. It exposes general operating system health data - system uptime and date, initial load device/parameters, number of logged-in users, running and maximum process counts, and paging/swapping activity. Its core monitoring value is software/OS status: system uptime for availability tracking, process count versus the configured maximum for detecting process table exhaustion, and page-in/page-out and swap-in/swap-out counters for detecting memory pressure and thrashing. It is explicitly modeled as an extension of the standard Host Resources MIB (hrSystem-style objects). It is deployed on Linux hosts monitored through Velocity Software's performance/capacity management tooling, an extension of that vendor's more traditional mainframe/z-VM monitoring focus. Engineers can download the VELOCITY-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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

  • Linux servers monitored by Velocity Software's performance tools

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll velocitySystemUptime and velocitySystemNumUsers for basic host health, compare velocitySystemProcesses against velocitySystemMaxProcesses to catch approaching process-table exhaustion, and watch velocitySystemPageIn/velocitySystemPageOut together with velocitySystemSwapIn/velocitySystemSwapOut for a sustained climb that signals memory pressure and thrashing on the monitored Linux host.

What Can Be Monitored

  • system uptime
  • number of logged-in users
  • current vs. maximum process count
  • page-in/page-out activity
  • swap-in/swap-out activity
  • initial load device/parameters
Imported Objects

From HOST-RESOURCES-MIB

InternationalDisplayString
KBytes
ProductID

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndexOrZero

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
enterprises
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

AutonomousType
DateAndTime
DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using velocitySystemNumUsers OID:

Select a Linux servers monitored by Velocity Software's performance tool (uptime/process-count/paging status) 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 velocitySystemNumUsers into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The number of user sessions for which this host is storing state information. 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 Gauge32-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

Extends host resources MIB for Linux systems with process and performance monitoring capabilities.

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