SNMP Agent Administration Guide
The following sections explain how to integrate the BEA SNMP Agent into your management framework:
BEA SNMP Agent provides the following two SNMP MIB files. bea.asn1
and mib.txt
. The bea.asn1
file is used by the SNMP network management framework to set up that portion of its local MIB (on the management station) required to manage Tuxedo applications. The mib.txt
file, which is created from the bea.asn1
file, is used by the Tuxedo SNMP agent (tux_snmpd
) at startup to set up its local SNMP MIB on the managed node.
Note: Only the bea.asn1
file is of interest in the discussions that follow.
To use BEA SNMP Agent with your management framework, follow these steps:
The SNMP MIB defines the data types and access permissions for the various managed objects that can be accessed through BEA SNMP Agent. It also defines the event notifications that can be generated by BEA SNMP Agent. The MIB thus provides the management framework with information it requires to manage BEA Tuxedo resources.
By default, the SNMP MIB file, bea.asn1
, is installed in the tux_prod_dir
/udataobj/snmp/etc
directory. The MIB file must be imported into the management database of your management framework. Some management frameworks refer to this process as loading a MIB. For a list of management frameworks tested with BEA SNMP Agent, refer to the BEA Tuxedo Release Notes.
For example, are there particular attributes of the resources you are managing that you want to monitor? Do you want to be notified when certain BEA Tuxedo system events occur?
For details, see Integrating BEA Tuxedo Event Notifications.
Periodic collection of values of pertinent objects is valuable for analysis of trends. This analysis is valuable for capacity planning and load-balancing. You can also use polling to generate alarms, which is useful for fault management.
If you are using the BEA SNMP agent as a SMUX subagent with the BEA SNMP Agent Integrator, you might want to off-load some threshold checking to the BEA SNMP Agent Integrator. The BEA SNMP Agent Integrator generates enterprise-specific traps when the user-defined threshold is crossed. Off-loading checking of selective thresholds to the BEA SNMP Agent Integrator reduces the network bandwidth consumed by the management framework's polling activities.
The procedure for setting up and starting the BEA SNMP agent is described in Setting Up BEA SNMP Agent on a Managed Node.
To integrate the BEA Tuxedo system event traps with your management framework, follow these steps:
TMSYSEVT
) is running for the domain being managed. For more information, see Setting Up BEA SNMP Agent on a Managed Node.BEA SNMP Agent will not receive event notifications unless the EventBroker server (TMSYSEVT
) is running. For information on the Tuxedo EventBroker server, see reference page TMSYSEVT(5) in BEA Tuxedo File Formats, Data Descriptions, MIBs, and System Processes Reference.
TRAP_HOST
entry in the BEA SNMP Agent beamgr.conf
configuration file to specify the location of the management machine that is to be the destination for traps generated by the agent. For more information, see Setting Up BEA SNMP Agent on a Managed Node.bea.asn1
MIB file into your management framework.You might want to change the way in which Tuxedo SNMP traps are displayed on your management console, or the actions that the management framework takes in response to specified events. For example, you might choose to ignore some routine informational notifications. For example, to view the event configuration on HP OpenView, do the following:
Monitoring of multiple BEA Tuxedo domains is done by running a separate Tuxedo SNMP agent for each domain being monitored. These agents must be run as SMUX subagents under the BEA SNMP Agent Integrator.
When more than one Tuxedo SNMP agent is running as a SMUX subagent on a node, then SNMP manager Set or Get requests to an agent must be addressed using a community of the form:
In this example payrollagent
is a logical agent name that identifies the agent to which the request is to be forwarded by the BEA SNMP Agent Integrator.
The BEA SNMP Agent Integrator can be used to poll BEA Tuxedo objects, or other managed resources. To integrate the BEA SNMP Agent Integrator threshold-checking activity with the management framework, perform the following steps:
For more information, see Using the BEA SNMP Agent Integrator for Polling.