WATCHGUARD-SYSTEM-STATISTICS-MIB

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Organization: WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

Last Updated: 2007-01-25

Category: WatchGuard Security Appliances

Description: Tracks system-level statistics on WatchGuard appliances, including CPU utilization, memory usage, and connection table size.

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What Is WATCHGUARD-SYSTEM-STATISTICS-MIB?

WATCHGUARD-SYSTEM-STATISTICS-MIB is a WatchGuard-specific module describing overall system statistics for a WatchGuard firewall/UTM appliance, distinct from the per-policy traffic data in the companion policy MIB. It exposes system-wide performance data such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and connection table counts. This is a core hardware/software health MIB: CPU and memory load are classic indicators of device stress, and connection table size indicates whether the appliance is approaching its session-handling capacity. No specific dependency on other MIBs is apparent from the minimal module description. It is deployed on WatchGuard firewall/UTM appliances for ongoing capacity and health monitoring in perimeter security deployments. Engineers can download the WATCHGUARD-SYSTEM-STATISTICS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in WATCHGUARD-SYSTEM-STATISTICS-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

WatchGuard firewall/UTM appliance

Monitoring Examples

No sample object or table names were extracted for this module, so specific identifiers cannot be cited; an administrator would typically poll system-wide CPU utilization and memory usage counters to detect resource exhaustion, and monitor the connection table count to catch the appliance nearing its maximum concurrent-session limit. Without a verified object list, more granular technical detail would not be grounded in the actual MIB content.

What Can Be Monitored

CPU utilization
memory usage
connection table size
overall system load

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
enterprises

From WATCHGUARD-MIB

watchguard

OBJECT-IDENTITY

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using wgSystemCpuUtil OID:

Select a WatchGuard firewall/UTM appliance (CPU/memory/connection-table utilization 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 wgSystemCpuUtil into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports cPU utilization of the system in last 5 seconds. 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 Counter64-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if utilization exceeds 85%, a common warning threshold before sustained high load affects performance. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
wgInfoModule	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6			The MIB module describes various system statistics information of WatchGuard system.
wgSystemStatisticsMIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3			This is the base system information for all system related statistical counters.
C64 wgSystemCpuUtilEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.4	Counter64	read-only	CPU utilization of the system in last 5 seconds. The value is measured in 0.01%. For example, if the value is 234, then CPU utilization is 2.34%.
C64 wgSystemTotalSendBytes	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.8	Counter64	read-only	The total number of bytes sent since system is up. This number includes both cut through traffic and host traffic.
C64 wgSystemTotalRecvBytes	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.9	Counter64	read-only	The total number of bytes received since system is up. This number includes both cut through traffic and host traffic.
C64 wgSystemTotalSendPackets	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.10	Counter64	read-only	The total number of the packets sent since system is up. This number includes both cut through traffic and host traffic.
C64 wgSystemTotalRecvPackets	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.11	Counter64	read-only	The total number of the packets received since system is up. The number includes both cut through traffic and host traffic.
C64 wgSystemStreamReqTotal	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.30	Counter64	read-only	The total number of the connection requests since system is up.
C64 wgSystemStreamReqDrop	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.34	Counter64	read-only	The total number of the connection requests being dropped since system is up.
C64 wgSystemCpuUtil1	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.77	Counter64	read-only	CPU utilization of the system in last 1 minute. The value is measured in 0.01%. For example, if the value is 234, then CPU utilization is 2.34%.
C64 wgSystemCpuUtil5	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.78	Counter64	read-only	CPU utilization of the system in last 5 minutes. The value is measured in 0.01%. For example, if the value is 234, then CPU utilization is 2.34%.
C64 wgSystemCpuUtil15	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.79	Counter64	read-only	CPU utilization of the system in last 15 minutes. The value is measured in 0.01%. For example, if the value is 234, then CPU utilization is 2.34%.
C64 wgSystemCurrActiveConns	1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.80	Counter64	read-only	Total number of currently active connections of the system.

RFC description

Monitors WatchGuard appliance system statistics including CPU utilization, memory usage, and connection table counts.

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