Zenoss only uses MIBs for SNMP Trap decoding. Actual perf monitoring requires templates which you can specify any OID you like to monitor as a datasource. You can name these pretty much whatever you like as well.
The Admin Guide gives some overview on how this works. Modeling is different, and I haven't worked with modifying it at all so... -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University jwrober wrote, On 2/11/2009 10:21 PM: > I am relatively new to ZenOss, so I am probably not fully understanding the > platform. I do understand SNMP, MIBs and OIDs very well. > >>From what I can tell, ZenOss can handle any OID regardless of a MIB being >>loaded. Is that true? > > Does ZenOss ever query the set of loaded MIBs to get a "nice" name for an > OID? That can come up in all sorts of areas of the Zope console. > > The reason I ask is I loaded MSFT-MIB.mib to gain visibility into the name of > these OIDs: 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.2, 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.3, and > 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.2 respectively. These are the Microsoft Windows > Server, Workstation and Domain Controller OIDs. On a base install of core, > you can find them in the products area under Microsoft. If you model a > Windows box, then the OIDs will come up in the HW Model section under OS on > the device status tab in the lower right. > > I had to manually go into the products area and change the name of the OIDs > to better names once I figured out what the OIDs were for. I kind of > expected ZenOss to do that for me, but my expectatoin could be wrong. Hence > the post here. What is the relationship with MIBs that are loaded into the > organizer and the rest of the areas of the ZenOss platform? Is the MIB > organizer only for me to figure out what OIDs I will find interesting to > assign to templates and other stuff? Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks > James > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=31210#31210 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
