1 Introduction and Roadmap

This chapter describes the content and organization of this guide—Monitoring Oracle WebLogic Server with SNMP. This document explains the capabilities of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) in WebLogic Server, and how SNMP can be used in WebLogic Server to enable enterprise-wide management systems to manage heterogeneous software and hardware environments from a single management console.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Guide to this Document

• Standards Supported by WebLogic Server SNMP

• New and Changed Features in This Release

Guide to this Document

This document is organized as follows:

• Understanding the WebLogic Server SNMP Agents and MIB describes basic concepts of Simple Network Management Protocol as they apply to managing WebLogic Servers.

• Understanding WebLogic Server Notifications describes the characteristics of WebLogic enterprise-specific SNMP notifications.

• Understanding SNMP Proxies describes how WebLogic Server can function as a primary agent that proxies for other SNMP agents.

• WebLogic SNMP Command-Line Utility describes a command-line utility that offers many of the same features as an SNMP manager.

Standards Supported by WebLogic Server SNMP

This release of WebLogic Server supports the following SNMP standards:

Table 1-1 Supported SNMP Standards

Features	Supported Standards
SNMP protocol	SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3
Network protocol	UDP, TCP
Authentication protocol for SNMPv3	HMAC-MD5-96, HMAC-SHA-96
Privacy protocol for SNMPv3	Cipher block chaining or CBC mode of the Data Encryption Standard The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cipher Algorithm.See RFC 3826 at http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=3826

New and Changed Features in This Release

For a comprehensive listing of the new WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see What's New in Oracle WebLogic Server.