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... SMIv2" [20], and "Applicability
of Standards Track MIBs to Management of World Wide Web Servers" [21 ...
... Due to the design decision to not require application
instrumentation, many important topics were not handled in system
application MIB [31]. The following topics are within the scope of
this document:
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... Providing MIB definitions that allow managed entities to
report what they considered to be units of work;
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... accessed via a virtual information store, termed
the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are
defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI ...
... the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are
defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI.
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... MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2. A
MIB conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate
translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically
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... MIB conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate
translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically
equivalent, except where objects or events are omitted because no
translation is possible (use of Counter64 ...
... recognize those situations in which various aspects of a single
logical resource are represented in several different tables,
possibly defined in different MIBs.
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... Relationships to other MIBs ...
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This section outlines the relationships of the components of this MIB
(usually in the form of common indexing structures) to:
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... the host resources MIB [10]
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... Relationship to the System Application MIB ...
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The system application MIB defines attributes for management of
applications which can be realized without instrumenting the
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... instrumentation within the managed resource. The sysApplRunElmtIndex
is the key connection between these two MIBs; it is essential that
implementations of this MIB and of the system applications MIB ...
... connection between these two MIBs; it is essential that
implementations of this MIB and of the system applications MIB
running concurrently on a given platform employ a consistent policy
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... MIBs; it is essential that
implementations of this MIB and of the system applications MIB
running concurrently on a given platform employ a consistent policy
for assigning this value to identify running application elements ...
... Relationship to the Host Resources MIB ...
... "hrSWRunPerf" and "hrSWInstalled"). Of these, the software groups
are of greatest significance to this MIB.
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... to identify running software by process identifier (or equivalent)
relates information in the Host Resources MIB to information in the
System Applications MIB and this MIB ...
... relates information in the Host Resources MIB to information in the
System Applications MIB and this MIB. It is essential that the values
assigned to hrSWRunIndex from the Host Resources MIB ...
... Host Resources MIB to information in the
System Applications MIB and this MIB. It is essential that the values
assigned to hrSWRunIndex from the Host Resources MIB be consistent
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... MIB and this MIB. It is essential that the values
assigned to hrSWRunIndex from the Host Resources MIB be consistent
with the values used for sysApplRunElmtIndex.
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The Network Services Monitoring MIB [23] is defined as the base set
of attributes for managing network ...
... 23] is defined as the base set
of attributes for managing network applications. The Application MIB
includes information normally obtainable only from the managed
resource itself, rather than the supporting system. Due to
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... differences in index representation, the relationship between the
Network Services Monitoring MIB and the Application MIB is not
formally defined.
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... MIB Structure ...
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This MIB is organized into several groups, which in turn are
organized into tables to provide the monitoring and control of
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... finger probably would not.
Of course, implementors of this MIB are free to define additional
services. An applicability statement ...
... element) into per-application
statistics can be accomplished by a manager using the System
Application MIB's [31] sysApplInstallPkgTable to find the installed
application, the sysApplRunTable to find the running instances of
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... values of sysApplElmtRunIndex. The manager, armed with a set of
values for sysApplElmtRunIndex, is now able to retrieve the relevant
portions of the applOpenFileTable and other tables in this MIB.
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APPLICATION-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS
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... SNMPv2-CONF
LongUtf8String, sysApplElmtRunIndex FROM SYSAPPL-MIB;
applicationMib MODULE-IDENTITY ...
... MODULE-IDENTITY
LAST-UPDATED "9811171815Z"
ORGANIZATION "Application MIB Working Group"
CONTACT-INFO
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... "
DESCRIPTION
"This MIB defines objects representing generic aspects of
applications that are of interest to management but typically
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... DESCRIPTION
"This group represents the basic capabilities of this MIB."
::= { applicationMibGroups 1 }
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... "This group represents extensions to the system application
MIB."
::= { applicationMibGroups 9 }
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... STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The compliance statement for the application MIB."
MODULE
MANDATORY-GROUPS ...
... MIB [31], in many environments support
for much of this MIB requires instrumentation built into the managed
resource. Some tables may be implemented by a single monitor
process; for others, the implementation may be distributed within the
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The sysApplRunElmtIndex is the key connection between this MIB and
the systems application MIB. Implementations of these two MIBs ...
... connection between this MIB and
the systems application MIB. Implementations of these two MIBs
intended to run concurrently on a given platform must employ a
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... MIB and
the systems application MIB. Implementations of these two MIBs
intended to run concurrently on a given platform must employ a
consistent policy for assigning this value to running application
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Some of the objects defined in this MIB may carry a high run-time
cost in some environments. For example, tracking transaction elapsed
time ...
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This document was produced by the Application MIB working group.
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By making potentially sensitive information externally accessible,
the capabilities supported by the MIB have the potential of becoming
security problems. How security ...
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The tables in this MIB are organized to separate sensitive control
capabilities from less sensitive usage information. For example, the
objects to control application suspend/resume are separated from
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The MIB is structured to be useful for managers with read-only access
rights. In some environments, it may be approprate to restrict even
read-only access to these MIBs ...
... MIB is structured to be useful for managers with read-only access
rights. In some environments, it may be approprate to restrict even
read-only access to these MIBs.
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The capabilities supported by this MIB include several that may be of
value to a security administrator ...
... Management System (RDBMS) Management Information Base (MIB) using SMIv2", RFC 1697prop, August 1994. ...
... McCloghrie, K. and A. Bierman, "Entity MIB using SMIv2", RFC 2037(-> 2737(-> 4133prop)), October 1996. ...
... Kalbfleisch, C., "Applicability of Standards Track MIBs to Management of World Wide Web Servers", RFC 2039 ...
... Freed, N. and S. Kille, "Network Services Monitoring MIB", RFC 2248(-> 2788prop), January 1998. ...