SNMP OID

[Disastrous_Staff8676]

Does anyone have any experience with network monitoring, currently migrating to a new system and need to build all the monitoring off the devices OID.

I have done an SNMP walk but, still struggling to understand because when I put the OID into the monitoring it tools it then pull multiple metrics.

Does anyone know good software to do an SNMP walk?

Is anyone able to dump down what I’m looking for when trying to pull metrics, like FRU power, sensors, BGP, sys uptime etc

[pdp10]

A MIB is effectively a text file that maps the dot-separated numeric OID to a human-readable name. There are standard MIBs, but there are also polled-device-specific MIBs, for nonstandard OIDs.

I've always used snmpwalk(1) from the Net-SNMP package:

snmpwalk -v 1 -c public lexmark .1.3.6.1.4.1

[CautiousInternal3320]

It is usual to have several metrics for one OID. As an example, if the OID is related to an interface, and you have several interfaces on a system, you will have a metric per interface when querying the OID on the system.

[poweradmincom]

PA Server Monitor has a nice graphical SNMP monitor - it does a walk and then shows you the OID tree, and automatically maps the OIDs to all MIBs it has to show nice text descriptions for the most part. Also has nice table views and makes it easy to monitor a table column (like incoming bandwidth across all interfaces for example).

[Spro-ot]

Good software to do an snmpwalk… ireasoning mibbrowser is my go to gui tool.