WBSN-APPLIANCE-MIB

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Organization: Websense, Inc.

Last Updated: 2012-02-20

Category: Web Content Filtering and Security

Description: Monitors Websense web filtering appliance health, policy enforcement statistics, and content categorization metrics.

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What Is WBSN-APPLIANCE-MIB?

WBSN-APPLIANCE-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB from Websense for its web-filtering/content-security appliances, which enforce internet usage policy by categorizing and blocking or allowing web traffic for an organization. It exposes appliance health data alongside policy-enforcement and content-categorization statistics, such as counts of requests allowed, blocked, or categorized by policy category. In a monitoring context it would be used to track both the software/hardware health of the appliance (overall status, uptime, resource load) and its functional performance, such as how many requests are being filtered and whether categorization/policy processing is keeping up with traffic volume, revealing an overloaded or misconfigured filtering appliance. It is a self-contained vendor MIB rather than one built on an IETF content-filtering standard, though it may sit alongside standard host-resources MIBs for baseline system health on the same appliance. It is deployed by enterprise IT/security teams operating Websense web security appliances at the network edge or in a proxy chain to enforce acceptable-use policy. Engineers can download the WBSN-APPLIANCE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in WBSN-APPLIANCE-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

  • Websense web filtering/content security appliance

Monitoring Examples

No sample object/table names were provided for this MIB, so specific OIDs cannot be cited here. Based on the vendor description, an admin would typically poll appliance health/status objects to confirm the Websense appliance itself is operating normally, and policy-enforcement counters to see how many requests were blocked versus allowed by category over a given period. A spike in blocked requests or a drop in categorization throughput would flag either a policy change taking effect or the appliance struggling to keep pace with traffic.

What Can Be Monitored

  • appliance operational/health status
  • requests blocked by policy
  • requests allowed by policy
  • content category classification counts

This MIB depends on

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Imported Objects

From RFC-1215

TRAP-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString

From UCD-SNMP-MIB

dskErrorMsgOBJECT-TYPE
dskPathOBJECT-TYPE
fileErrorMsgOBJECT-TYPE
fileNameOBJECT-TYPE
memAvailRealOBJECT-TYPE
memAvailSwapOBJECT-TYPE
memBufferOBJECT-TYPE
memCachedOBJECT-TYPE
memErrorNameOBJECT-TYPE
memSharedOBJECT-TYPE
memSwapErrorMsgOBJECT-TYPE
memTotalFreeOBJECT-TYPE
memTotalRealOBJECT-TYPE
memTotalSwapOBJECT-TYPE
ssCpuIdleOBJECT-TYPE
ssCpuSystemOBJECT-TYPE
ssCpuUserOBJECT-TYPE
ssErrorNameOBJECT-TYPE

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using memUsageFlag OID:

Select a Websense web filtering/content security appliance (request-allowed/blocked/categorization 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 memUsageFlag into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The flag to indicate memory usage exceed. 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 INTEGER-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

RFC description

Vendor-private MIB for WBSN (Web-Based Secure Networking) appliance management and monitoring.

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