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Application Performance Measurement MIB
draft-ietf-rmonmib-apm-mib-10.txt
August 6, 2003
Steven Waldbusser
waldbusser@nextbeacon.com
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Abstract
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base
(MIB) for use with network management protocols in TCP/IP-
based internets. In particular, it defines objects for
measuring the application performance as experienced by end-
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users.
1. The Internet-Standard Management Framework
For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the
current Internet-Standard Management Framework, please
refer to section 7 of RFC 3410 [16].
Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information
store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. MIB
objects are generally accessed through the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP). Objects in the MIB are defined
using the mechanisms defined in the Structure of Management
Information (SMI). This memo specifies a MIB module that
is compliant to the SMIv2, which is described in STD 58,
RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58,
RFC 2580 [RFC2580].
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2. Overview
This document continues the architecture created in the RMON
MIB [17] by providing analysis of application performance as
experienced by end-users.
Application performance measurement measures the quality of
service delivered to end-users by applications. With this
perspective, a true end-to-end view of the IT infrastructure
results, combining the performance of the application,
desktop, network, and server, as well as any positive or
negative interactions between these components.
Despite all the technically sophisticated ways in which
networking and system resources can be measured, human end-
users perceive only two things about an application:
availability and responsiveness.
Availability - The percentage of the time that the
application is ready to give a user service.
Responsiveness - The speed at which the application
delivers the requested service.
A transaction is an action initiated by a user that starts and
completes a distributed processing function. A transaction
begins when a user initiates a request for service (i.e.
pushing a submit button) and ends when the work is completed
(i.e. information is provided or a confirmation is delivered).
A transaction is the fundamental item measured by the APM MIB.
A failed transaction is a transaction that fails to provide
the service requested by the end user, regardless of whether
it is due to a processing failure or transport failure.
An application protocol (e.g. POP3) may implement different
commands or application "verbs" (e.g. POP3 Login and POP3
Retrieval). It will often be interesting to monitor these
verbs separately because:
1) The verbs may have widely differing performance
characteristics (in fact some may be response time
oriented while others are throughput oriented)
2) The verbs have varying business significance
3) It provides more granularity of exactly what might be
performing poorly
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This MIB Module allows the measurement of a parent
application, its component verbs, or both. If monitoring both,
one can watch the top-level application and then drill down to
the verbs when trouble is spotted to learn which subcomponents
are in trouble. Each application verb is registered separately
in the Protocol Directory [14] as a child of its parent
application.
Application protocols implement one of three different types
of transactions: transaction-oriented, throughput-oriented, or
streaming-oriented. While the availability metric is the same
for all three types, the responsiveness metric varies:
Transaction-Oriented: These transactions have a fairly
constant workload to perform for all transactions. The
responsiveness metric for transaction-oriented applications
is application response time, the elapsed time between the
user's request for service (e.g. pushing the submit button)
and the completion of the request (e.g. displaying the
results) and is measured in milliseconds. This is commonly
referred to as end-user response time.
Throughput-Oriented: These transactions have widely varying
workloads based on the amount of data requested. The
responsiveness metric for throughput-oriented applications
is kilobits per second.
Streaming-Oriented: These transactions deliver data at a
constant metered rate of speed regardless of excess
capacity in the networking and computing infrastructure.
However, when the infrastructure's cannot deliver data at
this speed, interruption of service or degradation of
service can result. The responsiveness metric for
streaming-oriented applications is the signal quality ratio
of time that the service is degraded or interrupted to the
total service time. This metric is measured in parts per
million.
2.1. Report Aggregation
This MIB Module provides functions to aggregate measurements
into higher level summaries.
Every transaction is identified by its application, server,
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and client and has an availability measure as well as a
responsiveness measure. The appropriate responsiveness measure
is context-sensitive depending on whether the application is
transaction-oriented, throughput-oriented, or streaming-
oriented. For example, in a 5 minute period several
transactions might be recorded:
Application Client Server Successful Responsiveness
HTTP Jim Amazon 1 6 sec.
SAP/R3 Jane SAP 1 17 sec.
HTTP Joe HR 0 -
FTP Jim ietf 1 212 Kbps
HTTP Joe HR 1 25 sec.
RealVideo Joe CNN 1 100.0%
HTTP Jane HR 1 5 sec.
These transactions can be aggregated in several ways,
providing statistical summaries - for example summarizing all
HTTP transactions, or all HTTP transactions to the HR Server.
Note that data from different applications may not be
summarized because:
1. The performance characteristics of different
applications differ widely enough to render statistical
analysis meaningless.
2. The responsiveness metrics of different applications may
be different, making a statistical analysis impossible (in
other words, one application may be transaction-oriented,
while another is throughput-oriented).
Aggregating transactions collected over a period requires an
aggregation algorithm. In this MIB Module, transaction
aggregation always results in the following statistics:
TransactionCount
The total number of transactions during this period
SuccessfulTransactions
The total number of transactions that were successful. The
management station can derive the percent success by dividing
SuccessfulTransactions by the TransactionCount.
ResponsivenessMean
The average of the responsiveness metric for all aggregated
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transactions that completed successfully
ResponsivenessMin
The minimum responsiveness metric for all aggregated transactions
that completed successfully
ResponsivenessMax
The maximum responsiveness metric for all aggregated transactions
that completed successfully
ResponsivenessBx
The count of successful transactions whose responsiveness metric
fell into the range specified for Bx. There are 7 buckets
specified. Because the performance of different applications varies
widely, the bucket ranges are specified separately for each
application (in the apmAppDirTable) so that they may be
tuned to typical performance of each application.
For example, when aggregating the previous set of transactions
by application we get (for simplicity the example only shows
TransactionCount, SuccessfulTransactions, and
ResponsivenessMean):
Application Count Successful ResponsivenessMean
HTTP 4 3 12 sec.
SAP/R3 1 1 17 sec.
FTP 1 1 212 Kbps.
RealVideo 1 1 100.0%
There are four different types of aggregation.
The flows(1) aggregation is the simplest. All transactions
that share common application/server/client 3-tuples are
aggregated together, resulting in a set of metrics for all
such unique 3-tuples.
The clients(2) aggregation results in somewhat more
aggregation (i.e. fewer resulting records). All
transactions that share common application/client tuples
are aggregated together, resulting in a set of metrics for
all such unique tuples.
The servers(3) aggregation usually results in still more
aggregation (i.e. fewer resulting records). All
transactions that share common application/server tuples
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are aggregated together, resulting in a set of metrics for
all such unique tuples.
The applications(4) aggregation results in the most
aggregation (i.e. the fewest resulting records). All
transactions that share a common application are aggregated
together, resulting in a set of metrics for all such unique
applications.
For example, if in a 5 minute period the following
transactions occurred:
Actual Transactions:
# App Client Server Successful Responsiveness
1 HTTP Jim CallCtr N -
2 HTTP Jim HR Y 12 sec.
3 HTTP Jim Amazon Y 7 sec.
4 HTTP Jim CallCtr Y 5 sec.
5 Email Jim Pop3 Y 12 sec.
6 HTTP Jane CallCtr Y 3 sec.
7 SAP/R3 Jane SAP Y 19 sec.
8 Email Jane Pop3 Y 16 sec.
9 HTTP Joe HR Y 18 sec.
The flows(1) aggregation results in the following table. Note that the
first record (HTTP/Jim/CallCtr) is the aggregation of transactions #1
and #4:
Flow Aggregation:
App Client Server Count Succe- Rsp Rsp Rsp RspB1 RspB2
ssful Mean Min Max
HTTP Jim CallCtr 2 1 5 5 5 1 0
HTTP Jim HR 1 1 12 12 12 0 1
HTTP Jim Amazon 1 1 7 7 7 1 0
Email Jim Pop3 1 1 12 12 12 0 1
HTTP Jane CallCtr 1 1 3 3 3 1 0
SAP/R3 Jane SAP 1 1 19 19 19 0 1
Email Jane Pop3 1 1 16 16 16 0 1
HTTP Joe HR 1 1 18 18 18 0 1
(Note: Columns above such as RspMean and RspB1 are abbreviations for
objects in the apmReportTable)
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The clients(2) aggregation results in the following table. Note that
the first record (HTTP/Jim) is the aggregate of transactions #1, #2,
#3 and #4:
Client Aggregation:
App Client Count Succe- Rsp Rsp Rsp RspB1 RspB2 ...
ssful Mean Min Max
HTTP Jim 4 3 8 5 12 2 1
Email Jim 1 1 12 12 12 0 1
HTTP Jane 1 1 3 3 3 1 0
SAP/R3 Jane 1 1 19 19 19 0 1
Email Jane 1 1 16 16 16 0 1
HTTP Joe 1 1 18 18 18 0 1
The servers(3) aggregation results in the following table. Note that
the first record (HTTP/CallCtr) is the aggregation of transactions #1,
#4 and #6:
Server Aggregation:
App Server Count Succe- Rsp Rsp Rsp RspB1 RspB2 ...
ssful Mean Min Max
HTTP CallCtr 3 2 4 3 5 2 0
HTTP HR 2 2 15 12 18 0 2
HTTP Amazon 1 1 7 7 7 1 0
Email Pop3 2 2 14 12 16 0 2
SAP/R3 SAP 1 1 19 19 19 0 1
The applications(4) aggregation results in the following table. Note
that the first record (HTTP) is the aggregate of transactions #1, #2,
#3, #5, #6 and #9:
Application Aggregation:
App Count Succe- Rsp Rsp Rsp RspB1 RspB2 ...
ssful Mean Min Max
HTTP 6 5 9 3 18 3 2
Email 2 2 14 12 16 0 2
SAP/R3 1 1 19 19 19 0 1
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The apmReportControlTable provides for a historical set of the
last 'X' reports, combining the historical records found in
history tables with the periodic snapshots found in TopN tables.
Conceptually the components are:
apmReportControlTable
Specifies data collection and summarization parameters, including
the number of reports to keep and the size of each report.
apmReport
Each APM Report contains an aggregated list of records
that represent data collected during a specific time period.
An apmReportControlEntry causes a family of APM Reports to be
created, where each report summarizes different, successive,
contiguous periods of time.
While the conceptual model of APM Reports shows them as distinct
entities, they are all entries in a single apmReportTable, where
entries in report 'A' are separated from entries in report 'B'
by different values of the apmReportIndex.
+-----------------------+
| |
| apmReportControlTable |
| | +-----------+
+-----------------------+ | |
+-----------+ |
| | |
+-----------+ |---+
| | |
+----------+ |---+
| | | apmReport
|apmReport |----+ +-----------------------+
| | |Thu Mar 30 12-1PM |
+----------+ | |
|CLNT SERV PROT stats |
| |
|Joe CNN HTTP data |
|Jan POP POP3 data |
|Jan POP SMTP data |
|Bob HR PSOFT data |
|... |
|... |
+-----------------------+
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2.2. AppLocalIndex Linkages
The following set of example tables illustrates a few points:
1. How protocolDirEntries, apmHttpFilterEntries and
apmUserDefinedAppEntries(not shown) all result in entries in
the apmAppDirTable.
2. How a single appLocalIndex may be represented multiple times in
the apmAppDirTable and apmReportTable if the agent
measures multiple responsiveness types for that application.
A convention in the formatting of these tables is that the columns to
the left of the '|' separator are index columns for the table.
Assuming the following entries in the RMON2 protocolDirectory:
protocolDirectory
ID (*) Parameters | LocalIndex ...
WWW None | 1
WWW Get None | 2
SAP/R3 None | 3
(*) These IDs are represented here symbolically. Consult [14] for
more detail in their format
and the following entry in the apmHttpFilterTable:
ApmHttpFilterTable
Index | AppLocalIndex ServerAddress URLPath MatchType ...
5 | 20 hr.corp.com /expense prefix(3) ...
the apmAppDirTable would be populated with the following
entries:
apmAppDir
AppLocalIndex ResponsivenessType | Config ...
1 transaction(1) | On ...
1 throughput(2) | On ...
2 transaction(1) | On ...
2 throughput(2) | On ...
3 transaction(1) | On ...
20 transaction(1) | On ...
20 throughput(2) | On ...
The entries in the apmAppDirTable with an appLocalIndex of 1, 2
and 3 correspond to the identically named entries in the
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protocolDirectory table.
appLocalIndex #1 results in 2 entries, one to measure the transaction
responsiveness of WWW and one to measure its throughput
responsiveness. In contrast, appLocalIndex #3 results in only a
transaction entry because the agent does not measure the throughput
responsiveness for SAP/R3 (probably because it isn't very
meaningful). Finally, appLocalIndex #20 corresponds to the entry in
the apmHttpFilterTable and has transaction responsiveness and
throughput responsiveness measurements available.
If a report was configured using application aggregation, entries in
that report might look like:
apmReportTable
CtlIndex Index AppLocalIdx ResponsivenessType | TransactionCount ...
1 1 1 transaction(1) | counters...
1 1 1 throughput(2) | counters...
1 1 2 transaction(1) | counters...
1 1 2 throughput(2) | counters...
1 1 3 transaction(1) | counters...
1 1 20 transaction(1) | counters...
1 1 20 throughput(2) | counters...
Note that the index items protocolDirLocalIndex,
apmReportServerAddress and apmReportClientID were omitted from
apmReportTable example for brevity because they would have been
equal to zero due to the use of the application aggregation in
this example.
2.3. Measurement Methodology
There are many different measurement methodologies available
for measuring application performance (e.g., probe-based,
client-based, synthetic-transaction, etc.). This specification
does not mandate a particular methodology - it is open to any
that meet the minimum requirements. Conformance to this
specification requires that the collected data match the
semantics described herein. In particular, a data collection
methodology must be able to measure response time, throughput,
streaming responsiveness and availability as specified.
Note that in some cases a transaction may run for a long time
but ultimately be successful. The measurement software
shouldn't prematurely classify lengthy transactions as
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failures but should wait as long as the client application
will wait for a successful response.
2.4. Instrumentation Architectures
Different architectural approaches and deployment strategies
may be taken towards implementation of this specification. If
a highly distributed approach is desired (e.g.: an agent per
desktop), one or both of the two approaches below may be used
to make it more practical.
2.4.1. Application Directory Caching
It is necessary for the manager to have a copy of the tables
that define the Application Directory in order to interpret
APM measurements. It is likely that in a highly distributed
network of thousands of APM agents, this Application Directory
will be the same on many, if not all of the agents. Repeated
downloads of the Application Directory may be inefficient.
The apmAppDirID object is a single object that identifies the
configuration of all aspects of the Application Directory when
it is equal to a well-known, registered configuration. Thus,
when a manager sees an apmAppDirID value that it recognizes,
it need not download the Application Directory from that
agent. In fact, the manager may discover a new registered
Application Directory configuration on one agent and then re-
use that configuration on another agent that shares the same
apmAppDirID value.
Application directory registrations are unique within an
administrative domain, allowing an administrator to create a
custom application directory configuration without the need to
assign it a globally-unique registration.
2.4.2. Push Model
When APM agents are installed on "desktops" (including
laptops), a few issues make polling difficult:
1. Desktops often have dynamically-assigned addresses so there
is no long-lived address to poll.
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2. Desktops are not available as much as infrastructure
components due to crashes, user-initiated reboots and
shutdowns and user control over monitoring software. Thus
a desktop may not be available to answer a poll at the
moment when the manager is scheduled to poll that desktop.
3. Laptops that are connected via dialup connections are only
sporadically connected and will routinely be unreachable
when the manager is scheduled to poll.
As a consequence, a push model is usually more appropriate for
desktop-based agents. To achieve this, the agent should follow
the following rules in deciding what data to send in
notifications.
APM Reports
If an agent wishes to push APM reports to a manager, it
must send:
apmAppDirID
apmNameTable (any data updated since the last push)
For each report the agent wishes to upload, it must
send the entire apmReportControlEntry associated with
that report and the associated entries in the
apmReportTable that have changed since the last report.
APM Transactions
If an agent wishes to push APM transactions to
a manager, it must send:
apmAppDirID
apmNameTable (any data updated since the last push)
apmTransactionTable (relevant entries)
APM Exceptions
The agent must send:
apmAppDirID
apmNameTable (any data updated since the last push)
apmTransactionEntry (of exception transaction)
apmExceptionEntry (entry that generated exception)
[Note that this list supercedes the information in the
OBJECTS clauses of the apmTransactionResponsivenessAlarm
and apmTransactionUnsuccessfulAlarm when the agent is
using a push model. This additional information
eliminates the need for the manager to request additional
data to understand the exception.]
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The order of varbinds and where to segment varbinds into
PDUs is at the discretion of the agent.
2.5. Structure of this MIB Module
The objects are arranged into the following groups:
- APM Application Directory Group
- APM User Defined Applications Group
- APM Report Group
- APM Transaction Group
- APM Exception Group
- APM Notification Group
These groups are the basic unit of conformance. If an agent
implements a group, then it must implement all objects in that
group. While this section provides an overview of grouping and
conformance information for this MIB Module, the authoritative
reference for such information is contained in the MODULE-
COMPLIANCE and OBJECT-GROUP macros later in this MIB Module.
These groups are defined to provide a means of assigning
object identifiers, and to provide a method for implementors
of managed agents to know which objects they must implement.
2.5.1. The APM Application Directory Group
The APM Application Directory group contains configuration
objects for every application or application verb monitored on
this system. This group consists of the apmAppDirTable.
2.5.2. The APM User Defined Applications Group
The APM User Defined Applications Group contains objects that
allow for the tracking of applications or application verbs
that aren't registered in the protocolDirTable. This group
consists of the apmHttpFilterTable and the
apmUserDefinedAppTable.
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2.5.3. The APM Report Group
The APM Report Group is used to prepare regular reports that
aggregate application performance by flow, by client, by
server, or by application. This group consists of the
apmReportControlTable and the apmReportTable.
2.5.4. The APM Transaction Group
The APM Transaction Group is used to show transactions that
are currently in progress and ones that have ended recently,
along with their responsiveness metric.
Because many transactions last a very short time and because
an agent may not retain completed transactions very long,
transactions may exist in this table for a very short time.
Thus, polling this table isn't an effective mechanism for
retrieving all transactions unless the value of
apmTransactionsHistorySize is suitably large for the
transactions being monitored.
One important benefit of this table is that it allows a
management station to check on the status of long-lived
transactions. Because the apmReport and apmException
mechanisms act only on transactions that have finished, a
network manager may not have visibility for some time into the
performance of long-lived transactions such as streaming
applications, large data transfers, or (very) poorly
performing transactions. In fact, by their very definition,
the apmReport and apmException mechanisms only provide
visibility into a problem after nothing can be done about it.
This group consists primarily of the apmTransactionTable.
2.5.5. The APM Exception Group
The APM Exception Group is used to generate immediate
notifications of transactions that cross certain thresholds.
The apmExceptionTable is used to configure which thresholds
are to be checked for which types of transactions. The
apmTransactionResponsivenessAlarm notification is sent when a
transaction occurs with a responsiveness that crosses a
threshold. The apmTransactionUnsuccessfulAlarm notification is
sent when a transaction fails for which exception checking was
configured. This group consists primarily of the
apmExceptionTable.
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2.5.6. The APM Notification Group
The APM Notification Group contains 2 notifications that are
sent when thresholds in the APM Exception Table are exceeded.
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3. Definitions
APM-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS
MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE,
NOTIFICATION-TYPE,
Counter32, Unsigned32 FROM SNMPv2-SMI
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, RowStatus, TimeStamp,
TimeInterval, TruthValue, DateAndTime,
StorageType FROM SNMPv2-TC
MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP,
NOTIFICATION-GROUP FROM SNMPv2-CONF
SnmpAdminString FROM SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
rmon, OwnerString FROM RMON-MIB
protocolDirLocalIndex FROM RMON2-MIB;
-- Application Performance Measurement MIB
apm MODULE-IDENTITY
LAST-UPDATED "200308061500Z" -- August 6, 2003
ORGANIZATION "IETF RMON MIB Working Group"
CONTACT-INFO
"Author:
Steve Waldbusser
Phone: +1-650-948-6500
Fax : +1-650-745-0671
Email: waldbusser@nextbeacon.com
Working Group Chair:
Andy Bierman
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Postal: 170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA USA 95134
Tel: +1 408 527-3711
E-mail: abierman@cisco.com
Working Group Mailing List: <rmonmib@ietf.org>
To subscribe send email to: <rmonmib-request@ietf.org>
"
DESCRIPTION
"The MIB module for measuring application performance
as experienced by end-users.
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). This version of
this MIB module is part of RFC xxxx; see the RFC itself for
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full legal notices."
REVISION "200308061500Z" -- August 6, 2003
DESCRIPTION
"The original version of this MIB Module, published as
RFCXXXX."
-- RFC-Editor assigns XXXX
::= { rmon 23 }
apmMibObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { apm 1 }
apmConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { apm 2 }
apmCompliances OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { apmConformance 1 }
apmGroups OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { apmConformance 2 }
AppLocalIndex ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A locally arbitrary unique identifier associated with an
application or application verb.
All objects of type AppLocalIndex are assigned by the agent
out of a common number space. In other words, AppLocalIndex
values assigned to entries in one table must not overlap with
AppLocalIndex values assigned to entries in another
table. Further, every protocolDirLocalIndex value registered
by the agent automatically assigns the same value out of the
AppLocalIndex number space.
For example, if the protocolDirLocalIndex values { 1, 3, 5, 7 }
have been assigned, and the apmHttpFilterAppLocalIndex values
{ 6, 8, 9 } have been assigned:
- Assignment of new AppLocalIndex values must not use the
values { 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }.
- AppLocalIndex values { 1, 3, 5, 7 } are automatically
assigned and are associated with the identical value of
protocolDirLocalIndex. In particular, an entry in the
apmAppDirTable indexed by a value provides further
information about a protocol indexed by the same value
in the protocolDirTable of RMON2.
The value for each supported application must remain constant
at least from one re-initialization of the entity's network
management system to the next re-initialization, except that
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if an application is deleted and re-created, it must be
re-created with a new value that has not been used since the
last re-initialization.
The specific value is meaningful only within a given SNMP
entity. An AppLocalIndex value must not be re-used until the
next agent restart."
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..2147483647)
ProtocolDirNetworkAddress ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A network level address whose semantics and encoding are
specified by an associated protocolDirLocalIndex
value. Objects of this type must specify which
protocolDirLocalIndex value is used. This value is encoded
according to the encoding rules for the identified
protocolDirectory entry.
For example, if the associated protocolDirLocalIndex indicates
an encapsulation of ip, this object is encoded as a length
octet of 4, followed by the 4 octets of the ip address,
in network byte order.
Objects of this type may allow this value to be the zero
length string. If so, they must identify they meaning of this
value."
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE(0..255))
DataSourceOrZero ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Identifies the source of the data that the associated
function is configured to analyze. This source can be any
interface on this device.
In order to identify a particular interface, this
object shall identify the instance of the ifIndex
object, defined in [13], for the desired interface.
For example, if an entry were to receive data from
interface #1, this object would be set to ifIndex.1.
If the source of the data isn't an interface or cannot be
localized to an interface, this object would be set to 0.0"
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REFERENCE "The DataSource textual convention is defined in
RFC 2021 [14]."
SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
ClientID ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A long-lived unique ID assigned to an end-system. This ID is
assigned by the agent using an implementation-specific
algorithm.
Becaue a client machine may be assigned multiple addresses
over any time period it can be difficult to attribute
behavior to a particular client based solely on its
address. A ClientID may be assigned to provide a more
stable handle for referencing that client. The entity that
assigns the ClientID may use various implementation
techniques to keep track of a client but if the assigning
entity is unable to track client address mappings, it may map
client identifiers to client addresses rather than to
distinct client machines.
This is named ClientID because it helps to solve a problem
seen in network clients (servers usually have well-known,
long-lived addresses). However, ClientID's may be assigned to
any end-system regardless of its role on the network."
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (0..4294967295)
TransactionAggregationType ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Specifies one of 4 different techniques for aggregating
transactions.
The metrics for a single transaction are the responsiveness of
the transaction and whether the transaction succeeded (a
boolean). When such metrics are aggregated in this MIB Module,
these metrics are replaced by averages and distributions of
responsiveness and availability. The metrics describing
aggregates are constant no matter which type of aggregation is
being performed. These metrics may be found in the
apmReportTable.
The flows(1) aggregation is the simplest. All transactions
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that share common application/server/client 3-tuples are
aggregated together, resulting in a set of metrics for all
such unique 3-tuples.
The clients(2) aggregation results in somewhat more
aggregation (i.e. fewer resulting records). All transactions
that share common application/client tuples are aggregated
together, resulting in a set of metrics for all such unique
tuples.
The servers(3) aggregation usually results in still more
aggregation (i.e. fewer resulting records). All transactions
that share common application/server tuples are aggregated
together, resulting in a set of metrics for all such unique
tuples.
The applications(4) aggregation results in the most
aggregation (i.e. the fewest resulting records). All
transactions that share a common application are aggregated
together, resulting in a set of metrics for all such unique
applications.
Note that it is not meaningful to aggregate applications, as
different applications have widely varying characteristics. As a
result, this set of aggregations is complete."
SYNTAX INTEGER {
flows(1), -- Least Aggregation
clients(2),
servers(3),
applications(4) -- Most Aggregation
}
-- The APM Application Directory Group
-- The Application Directory Table contains a record for every
-- application monitored by this agent. This table is also used to
-- configure whether or not an application will be measured and which
-- bucket boundaries will be used for the application.
--
-- The bucket boundaries define the break-points between bins of a
-- histogram analysis for that application. As an example of how this
-- works, consider an entry representing response-time for http.
-- If the boundaries are set as follows:
-- Boundary1: 500 milliseconds
-- Boundary2: 1 second
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-- Boundary3: 2 seconds
-- Boundary4: 5
-- Boundary5: 15
-- Boundary6: 60
--
-- If the following measurements are made (all in milliseconds):
-- 377, 8645, 1300, 487, 1405, 775, 1115, 850, 945, 1054, 7745, 9380
--
-- A report run during this interval would report the following
-- counts:
-- Bucket1: 2
-- Bucket2: 3
-- Bucket3: 4
-- Bucket4: 0
-- Bucket5: 3
-- Bucket6: 0
-- Bucket7: 0
apmAppDirTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ApmAppDirEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The APM MIB directory of applications and application
verbs. The agent will populate this table with all
applications/verbs of any responsivenessType it has the
capability to monitor. Since the agent populates this table
with every entry it has the capability to monitor, the
entries in this table are read-write, allowing the management
station to modify parameters in this table but not to add new
entries or delete entries (however, entries may be
disabled). If new entries are added to the apmHttpFilterTable
or the apmUserDefinedAppTable, the agent will add the
corresponding entries to this table.
It is an implementation-dependent matter as to how the agent
sets these default parameters. For example, it may leave
certain entries in this table 'off(0)' if the agent developer
believes that combination will be infrequently used, allowing
a manager that needs that capability to set it to 'on(1)'.
Some applications are registered in the RMON2 protocol
directory and some are registered in other tables in this
MIB Module. Regardless of where an application is originally
registered, it is assigned an AppLocalIndex value that is the
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primary index for this table.
The contents of this table affect all reports and exceptions
generated by this agent. Accordingly, modification of this
table should be performed by a manager acting in the role of
administrator. In particular, management software should not
require or enforce particular configuration of this table - it
should reflect the preferences of the site administrator, not
the software author. As a practical matter, this requires
management software to allow the administrator to configure
the values it will use so that it can be adapted to the site
policy."
::= { apmMibObjects 1 }
apmAppDirEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ApmAppDirEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The APM MIB directory of applications and application
verbs. An entry will exist in this table for all applications
for which application performance measurement is supported."
INDEX { apmAppDirAppLocalIndex,
apmAppDirResponsivenessType }
::= { apmAppDirTable 1 }
ApmAppDirEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
apmAppDirAppLocalIndex AppLocalIndex,
apmAppDirResponsivenessType INTEGER,
apmAppDirConfig INTEGER,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary1 Unsigned32,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary2 Unsigned32,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary3 Unsigned32,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary4 Unsigned32,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary5 Unsigned32,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary6 Unsigned32
}
apmAppDirAppLocalIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX AppLocalIndex
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The AppLocalIndex assigned for this application Directory
entry."
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::= { apmAppDirEntry 1 }
apmAppDirResponsivenessType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
transactionOriented(1),
throughputOriented(2),
streamingOriented(3)
}
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object describes and configures the agent's support for
application performance measurement for this application.
There are 3 types of measurements for different types of
applications:
Transaction-Oriented applications have a fairly constant
workload to perform for all transactions. The responsiveness
metric for transaction-oriented applications is application
response time (from first request to final delivery of
service) and is measured in milliseconds. This is
commonly referred to as end-user response time.
Throughput-Oriented applications have widely varying workloads
based on the nature of the client request. In particular,
throughput-oriented applications vary widely in the amount of
data that must be transported to satisfy the request. The
responsiveness metric for throughput-oriented applications is
kilobits per second.
Streaming-Oriented applications deliver data at a constant
metered rate of speed regardless of the responsiveness of the
networking and computing infrastructure. This constant rate of
speed is generally specified to be below (sometimes well
below) the nominal capability of the infrastructure. However,
when the infrastructure's cannot deliver data at this speed,
interruption of service or degradation of service can
result. The responsiveness metric for streaming-oriented
applications is the ratio of time that the service is degraded
or interrupted to the total service time. This metric is
measured in parts per million.
Note that for some applications, measuring more than one
responsiveness type may be interesting. For agents that wish
to support more than one measurement for a application, they
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will populate this table with multiple entries for that
application, one for each type."
::= { apmAppDirEntry 2 }
apmAppDirConfig OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
off(1),
on(2)
}
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object describes and configures support for application
performance measurement for this application.
If the value of this object is on(2), the agent supports
measurement of application performance metrics for this
application and is configured to measure such metrics for all
APM MIB functions and all interfaces. If the value of this
object is off(1), the agent supports measurement of
application performance for this application but is configured
to not measure these metrics for any APM MIB functions or
interfaces. Whenever this value changes from on(2) to off(1),
the agent shall delete all related entries in all tables in
this MIB Module.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmAppDirEntry 3 }
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary1 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The boundary value between bucket1 and bucket 2. If this
value is modified, all entries in the apmReportTable must be
deleted by the agent.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmAppDirEntry 4 }
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary2 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
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DESCRIPTION
"The boundary value between bucket2 and bucket 3. If this
value is modified, all entries in the apmReportTable must be
deleted by the agent.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmAppDirEntry 5 }
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary3 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The boundary value between bucket3 and bucket 4. If this
value is modified, all entries in the apmReportTable must be
deleted by the agent.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmAppDirEntry 6 }
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary4 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The boundary value between bucket4 and bucket 5. If this
value is modified, all entries in the apmReportTable must be
deleted by the agent.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmAppDirEntry 7 }
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary5 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The boundary value between bucket5 and bucket 6. If this
value is modified, all entries in the apmReportTable must be
deleted by the agent.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmAppDirEntry 8 }
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary6 OBJECT-TYPE
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SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The boundary value between bucket6 and bucket 7. If this
value is modified, all entries in the apmReportTable must be
deleted by the agent.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmAppDirEntry 9 }
-- Scalars related to the Application Directory table
apmBucketBoundaryLastChange OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime the last time that any bucket boundary
in any appDirEntry was changed. This object can help to
determine if two managers are both trying to enforce different
configurations of this table."
::= { apmMibObjects 2 }
apmAppDirID OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object allows managers to avoid downloading application
directory information when the directory is set to a known
(usually fixed) configuration.
If the value of this object isn't 0.0, it signifies
that the entire contents of the apmAppDirTable,
apmHttpFilterTable, apmUserDefinedAppTable and
protocolDirTable are equal to a known state identified
by the value of this object. If a manager recognizes this
value as identifying a directory configuration it has a local
copy of, it may use this local copy rather than downloading
these tables. Note that it may have downloaded this local copy
(and the ID) from another agent and used this copy for all
other agents that advertised the same ID.
If an agent recognizes that the entire contents of the
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apmAppDirTable, apmHttpFilterTable,
apmUserDefinedAppTable and protocolDirTable are equal to
a known state to which an ID has been assigned, it should set
this object to that ID.
In many cases when this feature is used, the application
directory information will be in read-only memory and thus the
tables may not be modified via SNMP requests. In the event
that the tables are writable and a modification is made, the
agent is responsible for setting this object to 0.0 if it
cannot determine that the state is equal to a known state.
An agent is not obligated to recognize and advertise all such
registered states as it may not have knowledge of all states.
Thus, a manager may encounter agents whose DirectoryID value
is 0.0 even though the contents of the directory were equal to
a registered state.
Note that the contents of those tables includes the
protocolDirLocalIndex and appLocalIndex values. In other
words, these values can't be assigned randomly on each agent,
but must be equal to values that are part of the known
state. While it is possible for a manager to download
application directory details using SNMP and to set the
appropriate directoryID, the manager would need to have some
scheme to ensure consistent values of LocalIndex variables
from agent to agent. Such schemes are outside the scope of
this specification.
Application directory registrations are unique within an
administrative domain.
Typically these registrations will be made by an agent
software developer who will set the application directory
tables to a read-only state and assign a DirectoryID to that
state. Thus, all agents running this software would share the
same DirectoryID. As the application directory might change
from one software release to the next, the developer may
register different DirectoryID's for each software release.
A customer could also create a site-wide application directory
configuration and assign a DirectoryID to that configuration
as long as consistent values of LocalIndex variables can be
ensured.
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The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmMibObjects 3 }
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-- APM HTTP Filter Table
-- The HTTP Filter Table creates virtual applications which measure the
-- performance of certain web pages or sets of web pages. Some
-- circumstances where this is particularly useful are:
--
-- - An Intranet or ASP scenario where a business application is
-- running on one or more web pages or scripts.
-- (i.e. /expense/submit.cgi?employeeID=3426&...)
-- - A web-hosting scenario where one wants to measure the
-- service level for a particular customer
-- - An e-commerce scenario where the performance of certain
-- pages needs to be monitored more closely.
-- (i.e. shopping cart, shipping, credit card authorization)
apmHttpFilterTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ApmHttpFilterEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A table that creates virtual applications which measure the
performance of certain web pages or sets of web pages.
When an entry is added to this table, the agent will
automatically create one or more entries in the
apmAppDirTable (one for each responsivenessType it is
capable of measuring).
Note that when entries exist in this table some HTTP
transactions will be summarized twice: in applications
represented here as well as the HTTP application. If entries
in this table overlap, these transactions may be summarized
additional times.
The contents of this table affect all reports and exceptions
generated by this agent. Accordingly, modification of this
table should be performed by a manager acting in the role of
administrator. In particular, management software should not
require or enforce particular configuration of this table - it
should reflect the preferences of the site administrator, not
the software author."
::= { apmMibObjects 4 }
apmHttpFilterEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ApmHttpFilterEntry
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MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A virtual application which measure the performance of certain
web pages or sets of web pages."
INDEX { apmHttpFilterIndex }
::= { apmHttpFilterTable 1 }
ApmHttpFilterEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
apmHttpFilterIndex Unsigned32,
apmHttpFilterAppLocalIndex AppLocalIndex,
apmHttpFilterServerProtocol Unsigned32,
apmHttpFilterServerAddress ProtocolDirNetworkAddress,
apmHttpFilterURLPath OCTET STRING,
apmHttpFilterMatchType INTEGER,
apmHttpFilterOwner OwnerString,
apmHttpFilterStorageType StorageType,
apmHttpFilterRowStatus RowStatus
}
apmHttpFilterIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (0..65535)
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the
apmHttpFilterTable."
::= { apmHttpFilterEntry 1 }
apmHttpFilterAppLocalIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX AppLocalIndex
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The AppLocalIndex that represents HTTP transactions
that match this entry.
This object is read-only. A value is created by the agent from
an unused AppLocalIndex value when this apmHttpFilterEntry is
created."
::= { apmHttpFilterEntry 2 }
apmHttpFilterServerProtocol OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..2147483647)
MAX-ACCESS read-create
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STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The protocolDirLocalIndex value of the network level protocol
of the apmHttpFilterServerAddress."
::= { apmHttpFilterEntry 3 }
apmHttpFilterServerAddress OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ProtocolDirNetworkAddress
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This entry will only represent transactions coming from the
network address specified in this object.
This is represented as an octet string with
specific semantics and length as identified
by the associated apmHttpFilterServerProtocol object.
If this object is the zero-length string, then this entry will
match the associated apmHttpFilterURLPath `from' address."
::= { apmHttpFilterEntry 4 }
apmHttpFilterURLPath OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX OCTET STRING
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This entry will only represent HTTP transactions
where the URL path component in the request matches this
value. This value represents the requested path regardless of
any substitution that the server might perform.
Prior to the matching, the URL is stripped of any server
address or DNS name and consists solely of the path name on
that server.
The value of the associated apmHttpFilterMatchType dictates
the type of matching that will be attempted."
::= { apmHttpFilterEntry 5 }
apmHttpFilterMatchType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
exact(1),
stripTrailingSlash(2),
prefix(3)
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}
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The matching algorithm used to compare the URL pathname.
If the value is exact(1), then the pathname component will be
compared with the associated apmHttpFilterURLPath and
will only be associated with this entry if it matches exactly.
If the value is stripTrailingSlash(2), then the pathname
component will be compared with the associated
apmHttpFilterURLPath and will only be associated with this
entry if it matches exactly or if the pathname ends with a '/'
symbol and matches apmHttpFilterURLPath if the '/' symbol is
removed from the pathname. This option exists for those paths
where an optional trailing slash is possible but for which a
prefix match would be too broad.
If the value is prefix(3), then the pathname component will be
compared with the associated apmHttpFilterURLPath and will
only be associated with this entry if the beginning of the
pathname matches every octet of this value. Octets that extend
beyond the length of this value are ignored."
::= { apmHttpFilterEntry 6 }
apmHttpFilterOwner OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX OwnerString
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The entity that configured this entry and is
therefore using the resources assigned to it."
::= { apmHttpFilterEntry 7 }
apmHttpFilterStorageType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX StorageType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The storage type of this apmHttpFilterEntry. If the value of
this object is 'permanent', no objects in this row need to be
writable."
::= { apmHttpFilterEntry 8 }
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apmHttpFilterRowStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX RowStatus
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The status of this apmHttpFilterEntry. No objects in this row
may be modified while the row's status is 'active'."
::= { apmHttpFilterEntry 9 }
apmHttpIgnoreUnregisteredURLs OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"When true, APM measurements of HTTP transactions will only
measure transactions relating to URLs that match a filter in
the apmHttpFilterTable. Thus, measurements for the HTTP
application will present aggregated statistics for
URL-matching HTTP transactions and measurements for the HTTP
GET application verb will present aggregated statistics for
URL-matching HTTP GET transactions.
This will be used in environments that wish to monitor only
targeted URLs and to ignore large volumes of internet web
browsing traffic.
This object affects all APM reports and exceptions generated
by this agent. Accordingly, modification of this object should
be performed by a manager acting in the role of
administrator. In particular, management software should not
require or enforce particular configuration of this object -
it should reflect the preferences of the site administrator,
not the software author.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmMibObjects 5 }
apmHttp4xxIsFailure OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"When true, this agent will recognize HTTP errors in the range
of 400 through 499 and will treat them as unavailable
transactions. When false or when this object isn't supported,
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they will be treated as successful transactions.
This object allows such error pages to be tracked at the
possible expense of having user typo's treated as poor service
on the part of the web server.
This object affects all reports and exceptions generated by
this agent. Accordingly, modification of this object should be
performed by a manager acting in the role of administrator. In
particular, management software should not require or enforce
particular configuration of this object - it should reflect
the preferences of the site administrator, not the software
author.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmMibObjects 6 }
-- The APM User-Defined Application Table
-- Many application protocols will never be registered with a
-- standards body (and thus included in a protocol directory standard)
-- because they are custom, in-house or proprietary
-- applications. Nevertheless, implementation strategies exist for
-- monitoring the end-user experience of these applications.
--
-- This read-only table provides a means for the agent to advertise
-- which user-defined applications it is monitoring and to associate
-- each with an AppLocalIndex value. It is an implementation-dependent
-- matter as to how the agent learns how to monitor these
-- applications.
apmUserDefinedAppTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ApmUserDefinedAppEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A table that advertises user-defined applications that the
agent is measuring.
The agent will automatically create one or more entries in the
apmAppDirTable (one for each responsivenessType it is
capable of measuring) for each entry in this table.
Note that when entries exist in this table some
transactions can be summarized more than once if there is
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overlap between applications defined here and applications
defined in the protocol directory or in the httpFilter table."
::= { apmMibObjects 7 }
apmUserDefinedAppEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ApmUserDefinedAppEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A user-defined application that the agent is measuring, along
with its AppLocalIndex assignment.
The apmAppDirAppLocalIndex value in the index identifies
the agent-assigned AppLocalIndex value for this user-defined
application."
INDEX { apmAppDirAppLocalIndex }
::= { apmUserDefinedAppTable 1 }
ApmUserDefinedAppEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
apmUserDefinedAppParentIndex Unsigned32,
apmUserDefinedAppApplication SnmpAdminString
}
apmUserDefinedAppParentIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..2147483647)
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The protocolDirLocalIndex value of the highest-layer
protocol defined in the protocolDirTable that this
application is a child of."
::= { apmUserDefinedAppEntry 1 }
apmUserDefinedAppApplication OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A human readable descriptive tag for this application."
::= { apmUserDefinedAppEntry 2 }
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-- The APM Name Table
apmNameTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ApmNameEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A client machine may have multiple addresses during a period
of monitoring. The apmNameTable assigns a long-lived
identifier to a client and records what addresses were
assigned to that client for periods of time. Various
implementation techniques exist for tracking this mapping but
if an agent is unable to track client address mappings, it may
map client identifiers to client addresses rather than to
distinct client machines.
A particular apmNameClientID should be a constant attribute of
a particular client. When available, the agent may also record
the machine name and/or user name which may be valuable for
displaying to humans. The apmNameMachineName and
apmNameUserName are relatively constant, changing only if
these attributes actually change on the client.
The agent will store a historical log of these entries, aging
out old entries as the log becomes too large. Since this table
contains information vital to the interpretation of other
tables (e.g. the apmReportTable), the agent should ensure that
the log doesn't age out entries that would be referenced by
data in those tables.
Note that an entry for a clientID is active from its
StartTime until the StartTime of another entry (for the same
clientID) that supercedes it, or 'now' if none supercede
it. Therefore, if a clientID only has a single entry, it is by
definition very new and should never be aged out. No entry for
a clientID should be aged out unless it has been updated by a
new entry for the client (i.e. with an updated address) and
only if the new entry is 'old' enough.
To determine how old is old enough, compute the maximum value
of Interval * (NumReports + 1) of all entries in the
apmReportControlTable (the '+ 1' is to allow a reasonable
period of time for the report to be downloaded). Then take the
larger of this value and the age in seconds of the oldest
entry in the current transaction table. If an entry for a
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clientID is superceded by another entry whose StartTime is
more than this many seconds ago, then the older entry may be
deleted."
::= { apmMibObjects 8 }
apmNameEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ApmNameEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An entry in the APM name table. An entry exists for each
period of time that a client has been associated with a
particular address.
The protocolDirLocalIndex value in the index identifies
the network layer protocol for the ClientAddress for this
entry.
Note that some combinations of index values may result in an
index that exceeds 128 sub-identifiers in length which exceeds
the maximum for the SNMP protocol. Implementations should take
care to avoid such combinations."
INDEX { apmNameClientID,
protocolDirLocalIndex, apmNameClientAddress,
apmNameMappingStartTime }
::= { apmNameTable 1 }
ApmNameEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
apmNameClientID ClientID,
apmNameClientAddress ProtocolDirNetworkAddress,
apmNameMappingStartTime DateAndTime,
apmNameMachineName SnmpAdminString,
apmNameUserName SnmpAdminString
}
apmNameClientID OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ClientID
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A unique ID assigned to the machine represented by this
mapping. This ID is assigned by the agent using an
implementation-specific algorithm."
::= { apmNameEntry 1 }
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apmNameClientAddress OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ProtocolDirNetworkAddress
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The network client address for this client when this mapping
was active.
This is represented as an octet string with specific semantics
and length as identified by the protocolDirLocalIndex
component of the index. This object may not be the zero length
string.
Since this object is an index variable, it is encoded in the
index according to the index encoding rules. For example, if
the protocolDirLocalIndex component of the index indicates an
encapsulation of ip, this object is encoded as a length octet
of 4, followed by the 4 octets of the ip address, in network
byte order. Care should be taken to avoid values of this
object that, in conjunction with the other index variables,
would result in an index longer SNMP's maximum of 128
subidentifiers."
::= { apmNameEntry 2 }
apmNameMappingStartTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DateAndTime
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The time that the agent first discovered this mapping
as active."
::= { apmNameEntry 3 }
apmNameMachineName OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The human readable name of the client machine.
If the client has no machine name or the agent is
unable to learn the machine name, this object will be
a zero-length string."
::= { apmNameEntry 4 }
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apmNameUserName OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The human readable name of a human user using the client
machine. If more than one user name are available
simultaneously, it is an implementation-dependent matter as to
which is used here. However, if the user name changes, this
object should change to reflect that change.
Non-human user names like 'root' or 'administrator' aren't
intended as values for this object. If the client has no
recorded user name or the agent is unable to learn a user
name, this object will be a zero-length string."
::= { apmNameEntry 5 }
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-- The APM Report Group
apmReportControlTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ApmReportControlEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Parameters that control the creation of a set of reports that
aggregate application performance."
::= { apmMibObjects 9 }
apmReportControlEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ApmReportControlEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A conceptual row in the apmReportControlTable.
An example of the indexing of this table is
apmReportControlInterval.3"
INDEX { apmReportControlIndex }
::= { apmReportControlTable 1 }
ApmReportControlEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
apmReportControlIndex Unsigned32,
apmReportControlDataSource DataSourceOrZero,
apmReportControlAggregationType TransactionAggregationType,
apmReportControlInterval Unsigned32,
apmReportControlRequestedSize Unsigned32,
apmReportControlGrantedSize Unsigned32,
apmReportControlRequestedReports Unsigned32,
apmReportControlGrantedReports Unsigned32,
apmReportControlStartTime TimeStamp,
apmReportControlReportNumber Unsigned32,
apmReportControlDeniedInserts Counter32,
apmReportControlDroppedFrames Counter32,
apmReportControlOwner OwnerString,
apmReportControlStorageType StorageType,
apmReportControlStatus RowStatus
}
apmReportControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..65535)
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
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STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the
apmReportControlTable. Each such entry defines a unique
report whose results are placed in the apmReportTable on
behalf of this apmReportControlEntry."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 1 }
apmReportControlDataSource OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DataSourceOrZero
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The source of the data for APM Reports generated on
behalf of this apmReportControlEntry.
If the measurement is being performed by a probe, this should
be set to interface or port where data was received for
analysis. If the measurement isn't being performed by a probe,
this should be set to the primary interface over which the
measurement is being performed. If the measurement isn't being
performed by a probe and there is no primary interface or this
information isn't known, this object should be set to 0.0.
This object may not be modified if the associated
apmReportControlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 2 }
apmReportControlAggregationType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TransactionAggregationType
-- INTEGER {
-- flows(1),
-- clients(2),
-- servers(3),
-- applications(4)
-- }
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The type of aggregation being performed for this set of
reports.
The metrics for a single transaction are the responsiveness of
the transaction and whether the transaction succeeded (a
boolean). When such metrics are aggregated in this MIB Module,
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these metrics are replaced by averages and distributions of
responsiveness and availability. The metrics describing
aggregates are constant no matter which type of aggregation is
being performed. These metrics may be found in the
apmReportTable.
The flows(1) aggregation is the simplest. All transactions
that share common application/server/client 3-tuples are
aggregated together, resulting in a set of metrics for all
such unique 3-tuples.
The clients(2) aggregation results in somewhat more
aggregation (i.e. fewer resulting records). All transactions
that share common application/client tuples are aggregated
together, resulting in a set of metrics for all such unique
tuples.
The servers(3) aggregation usually results in still more
aggregation (i.e. fewer resulting records). All transactions
that share common application/server tuples are aggregated
together, resulting in a set of metrics for all such unique
tuples.
The applications(4) aggregation results in the most
aggregation (i.e. the fewest resulting records). All
transactions that share a common application are aggregated
together, resulting in a set of metrics for all such unique
applications.
Note that it is not meaningful to aggregate applications, as
different applications have widely varying characteristics.
As a result, this set of aggregations is complete.
This object may not be modified if the associated
apmReportControlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 3 }
apmReportControlInterval OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
UNITS "Seconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The interval in seconds over which data is accumulated before
being aggregated into a report in the apmReportTable. All
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reports with the same apmReportControlIndex will be based on
the same interval. This object must be greater than zero.
Many users desire that these reports be synchronized to within
seconds of the beginning of the hour because the results may
be correlated more meaningfully to business behavior and so
that data from multiple agents is aggregated over the same
time periods. Thus management software may take extra effort
to synchronize reports to the beginning of the hour and to one
another. However, the agent must not allow reports to 'drift'
over time as they will quickly become unsynchronized. In
particular, if there is any fixed processing delay between
reports, the reports should deduct this time from the interval
so that reports don't drift.
This object may not be modified if the associated
apmReportControlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
DEFVAL { 3600 }
::= { apmReportControlEntry 4 }
apmReportControlRequestedSize OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of entries requested to be allocated for each
report generated on behalf of this entry."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 5 }
apmReportControlGrantedSize OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of entries per report the agent has allocated
based on the requested amount in apmReportControlRequestedSize.
Since multiple reports are saved, the total number of entries
allocated will be this number multiplied by the value of
apmReportControlGrantedReports, or 1 if that object doesn't
exist.
When the associated apmReportControlRequestedSize object is
created or modified, the agent should set this object as
closely to the requested value as is possible for the
particular implementation and available resources. When
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considering resources available, the agent must consider its
ability to allocate this many entries for all reports.
Note that while the actual number of entries stored in the
reports may fluctuate due to changing conditions, the agent
must continue to have storage available to satisfy the full
report size for all reports when necessary. Further, the agent
must not lower this value except as a result of a set to the
associated apmReportControlRequestedSize object."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 6 }
apmReportControlRequestedReports OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (0..65535)
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of saved reports requested to be allocated on
behalf of this entry."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 7 }
apmReportControlGrantedReports OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (0..65535)
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of saved reports the agent has allocated
based on the requested amount in
apmReportControlRequestedReports. Since each report can have
many entries, the total number of entries allocated will be
this number multiplied by the value of
apmReportControlGrantedSize, or 1 if that object doesn't
exist.
When the associated apmReportControlRequestedReports object is
created or modified, the agent should set this object as
closely to the requested value as is possible for the
particular implementation and available resources. When
considering resources available, the agent must consider its
ability to allocate this many reports each with the number of
entries represented by apmReportControlGrantedSize, or 1 if
that object doesn't exist.
Note that while the storage required for each report may
fluctuate due to changing conditions, the agent must continue
to have storage available to satisfy the full report size for
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all reports when necessary. Further, the agent must not lower
this value except as a result of a set to the associated
apmReportControlRequestedSize object."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 8 }
apmReportControlStartTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime when the system began processing the
report in progress. Note that the report in progress is not
available.
This object may be used by the management station to figure
out the start time for all previous reports saved for this
apmReportControlEntry, as reports are started at fixed
intervals."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 9 }
apmReportControlReportNumber OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..4294967295)
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of the report in progress. When an
apmReportControlEntry is activated, the first report will be
numbered one."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 10 }
apmReportControlDeniedInserts OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of failed attempts to add an entry to reports for
this apmReportControlEntry because the number of entries
would have exceeded apmReportControlGrantedSize.
This number is valuable in determining if enough entries have
been allocated for reports in light of fluctuating network
usage. Note that since an entry that is denied will often be
attempted again, this number will not predict the exact number
of additional entries needed, but can be used to understand
the relative magnitude of the problem.
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Also note that there is no ordering specified for the entries
in the report, thus there are no rules for which entries will
be omitted when not enough entries are available. As a
consequence, the agent is not required to delete 'least
valuable' entries first."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 11 }
apmReportControlDroppedFrames OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of frames which were received by the agent
and therefore not accounted for in the *StatsDropEvents, but
for which the agent chose not to count for this entry for
whatever reason. Most often, this event occurs when the agent
is out of some resources and decides to shed load from this
collection.
This count does not include packets that were not counted
because they had MAC-layer errors.
This counter is only relevant if this apm report is based on
a data source whose collection methodology is based on
analyzing network traffic.
Note that if the apmReportTables are inactive because no
applications are enabled in the application directory, this
value should be 0.
Note that, unlike the dropEvents counter, this number is the
exact number of frames dropped."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 12 }
apmReportControlOwner OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX OwnerString
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The entity that configured this entry and is
therefore using the resources assigned to it."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 13 }
apmReportControlStorageType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX StorageType
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MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The storage type of this apmReportControlEntry. If the value
of this object is 'permanent', no objects in this row need to
be writable."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 14 }
apmReportControlStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX RowStatus
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The status of this apmReportControlEntry.
An entry may not exist in the active state unless all
objects in the entry have an appropriate value. The only
objects in the entry that may be modified while the entry is
in the active state are apmReportControlRequestedSize and
apmReportControlRequestedReports.
If this object is not equal to active(1), all
associated entries in the apmReportTable shall be deleted
by the agent."
::= { apmReportControlEntry 15 }
-- The APM Report Table
apmReportTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ApmReportEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The data resulting from aggregated APM reports. Consult the
definition of apmReportControlAggregationType for the
definition of the various types of aggregations."
::= { apmMibObjects 10 }
apmReportEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ApmReportEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A conceptual row in the apmReportTable.
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The apmReportControlIndex value in the index identifies the
apmReportControlEntry on whose behalf this entry was created.
The apmReportIndex value in the index identifies which report
(in the series of reports) this entry is a part of.
The apmAppDirAppLocalIndex value in the index identifies
the common application of the transactions aggregated in this
entry.
The apmAppDirResponsivenessType value in the index
identifies the type of responsiveness metric reported by
this entry and uniquely identifies this entry when more
than one responsiveness metric is measured for a flow.
Entries will only exist in this table for those
combinations of AppLocalIndex and ResponsivenessType
that are configured 'on(1)'.
The protocolDirLocalIndex value in the index identifies
the network layer protocol of the apmReportServerAddress.
When the associated apmReportControlAggregationType value is
equal to applications(4) or clients(2), this
protocolDirLocalIndex value will equal 0.
The apmReportServerAddress value in the index identifies the
network layer address of the server in transactions aggregated
in this entry.
The apmNameClientID value in the index identifies the
client in transactions aggregated in this entry. If the
associated apmReportControlAggregationType is equal to
applications(4) or servers(3), then this protocolDirLocalIndex
value will equal 0.
An example of the indexing of this entry is
apmReportTransactionCount.3.15.3.1.8.4.192.168.1.2.3232235788
Note that some combinations of index values may result in an
index that exceeds 128 sub-identifiers in length which exceeds
the maximum for the SNMP protocol. Implementations should take
care to avoid such combinations."
INDEX { apmReportControlIndex, apmReportIndex,
apmAppDirAppLocalIndex,
apmAppDirResponsivenessType,
protocolDirLocalIndex, apmReportServerAddress,
apmNameClientID }
::= { apmReportTable 1 }
ApmReportEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
apmReportIndex Unsigned32,
apmReportServerAddress ProtocolDirNetworkAddress,
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apmReportTransactionCount Unsigned32,
apmReportSuccessfulTransactions Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessMean Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessMin Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessMax Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessB1 Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessB2 Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessB3 Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessB4 Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessB5 Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessB6 Unsigned32,
apmReportResponsivenessB7 Unsigned32
}
apmReportIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..4294967295)
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of apmReportControlReportNumber for the report to
which this entry belongs."
::= { apmReportEntry 1 }
apmReportServerAddress OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ProtocolDirNetworkAddress
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The network server address for this apmReportEntry.
This is represented as an octet string with
specific semantics and length as identified
by the protocolDirLocalIndex component of the index.
Since this object is an index variable, it is encoded in the
index according to the index encoding rules. For example, if
the protocolDirLocalIndex indicates an encapsulation of ip,
this object is encoded as a length octet of 4, followed by the
4 octets of the ip address, in network byte order. Care
should be taken to avoid values of this object that, in
conjunction with the other index variables, would result in an
index longer SNMP's maximum of 128 subidentifiers.
If the associated apmReportControlAggregationType is equal to
applications(4) or clients(2), then this object will be a null
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string and will be encoded simply as a length octet of 0."
::= { apmReportEntry 2 }
apmReportTransactionCount OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of transactions aggregated into this record."
::= { apmReportEntry 3 }
apmReportSuccessfulTransactions OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of successful transactions aggregated into
this record."
::= { apmReportEntry 4 }
apmReportResponsivenessMean OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The arithmetic mean of the responsiveness metrics for all
successful transactions aggregated into this record."
::= { apmReportEntry 5 }
apmReportResponsivenessMin OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The minimum of the responsiveness metrics for all
successful transactions aggregated into this record."
::= { apmReportEntry 6 }
apmReportResponsivenessMax OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum of the responsiveness metrics for all
successful transactions aggregated into this record."
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::= { apmReportEntry 7 }
-- Note that when updating a report entry, a transaction will not be
-- counted in more than 1 bucket in an entry. It will be counted in
-- the first bucket that matches, starting with Bucket 1 (B1). Note
-- that if a transaction matches 2 application types, it will update
-- one bucket in each of 2 entries in this table.
apmReportResponsivenessB1 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of successful transactions aggregated into this
record whose responsiveness was less than boundary1 value for
this application."
::= { apmReportEntry 8 }
apmReportResponsivenessB2 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of successful transactions aggregated into this
record whose responsiveness did not fall into Bucket 1 and was
greater than or equal to the boundary1 value for this
application and less than the boundary2 value for this
application."
::= { apmReportEntry 9 }
apmReportResponsivenessB3 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of successful transactions aggregated into this
record whose responsiveness did not fall into Bucket 1 or 2
and as greater than or equal to the boundary2 value for this
application and less than the boundary3 value for this
application."
::= { apmReportEntry 10 }
apmReportResponsivenessB4 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
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STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of successful transactions aggregated into this
record whose responsiveness did not fall into Buckets 1
through 3 and was greater than or equal to the boundary3 value
for this application and less than the boundary4 value for
this application."
::= { apmReportEntry 11 }
apmReportResponsivenessB5 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of successful transactions aggregated into this
record whose responsiveness did not fall into Buckets 1
through 4 and was greater than or equal to the boundary4 value
for this application and less than the boundary5 value for
this application."
::= { apmReportEntry 12 }
apmReportResponsivenessB6 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of successful transactions aggregated into this
record whose responsiveness did not fall into Buckets 1
through 5 and was greater than or equal to the
boundary5 value for this application and less than the
boundary6 value for this application."
::= { apmReportEntry 13 }
apmReportResponsivenessB7 OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of successful transactions aggregated into this
record whose responsiveness did not fall into Buckets 1
through 6 and was greater than or equal to the boundary6 value
for this application."
::= { apmReportEntry 14 }
-- APM Transaction Table
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apmTransactionTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ApmTransactionEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table contains transactions that are currently running
or have recently finished."
::= { apmMibObjects 11 }
apmTransactionEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ApmTransactionEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A conceptual row in the apmTransactionTable.
The apmAppDirAppLocalIndex value in the index identifies
the application of the transaction represented by this entry.
The apmAppDirResponsivenessType value in the index
identifies the type of responsiveness metric reported by
this entry and uniquely identifies this entry when more
than one responsiveness metric is measured for a flow.
Entries will only exist in this table for those
combinations of AppLocalIndex and ResponsivenessType
that are configured 'on(1)'.
The protocolDirLocalIndex value in the index identifies
the network layer protocol of the apmTransactionServerAddress.
The apmTransactionServerAddress value in the index identifies
the network layer address of the server in the transaction
represented by this entry.
The apmNameClientID value in the index identifies the
client in the transaction represented by this entry.
An example of the indexing of this entry is
apmTransactionCount.3.1.8.4.192.168.1.2.3232235788.2987
Note that some combinations of index values may result in an
index that exceeds 128 sub-identifiers in length which exceeds
the maximum for the SNMP protocol. Implementations should take
care to avoid such combinations."
INDEX { apmAppDirAppLocalIndex,
apmAppDirResponsivenessType,
protocolDirLocalIndex, apmTransactionServerAddress,
apmNameClientID, apmTransactionID }
::= { apmTransactionTable 1 }
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ApmTransactionEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
apmTransactionServerAddress ProtocolDirNetworkAddress,
apmTransactionID Unsigned32,
apmTransactionResponsiveness Unsigned32,
apmTransactionAge TimeInterval,
apmTransactionSuccess TruthValue
}
apmTransactionServerAddress OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ProtocolDirNetworkAddress
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The network server address for this apmTransactionEntry.
This is represented as an octet string with specific semantics
and length as identified by the protocolDirLocalIndex
component of the index. This object may not be the zero length
string.
For example, if the protocolDirLocalIndex indicates an
encapsulation of ip, this object is encoded as a length octet
of 4, followed by the 4 octets of the ip address, in network
byte order. Care should be taken to avoid values of this
object that, in conjunction with the other index variables,
would result in an index longer SNMP's maximum of 128
subidentifiers."
::= { apmTransactionEntry 1 }
apmTransactionID OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (0..4294967295)
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A unique value for this transaction amongst other
transactions sharing the same application layer protocol and
server and client addresses. Implementations may choose to use
the value of the client's source port, when possible."
::= { apmTransactionEntry 2 }
apmTransactionResponsiveness OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The current value of the responsiveness metric for this
transaction. If this transaction has completed, the final
value of the metric will be available.
Note that this value may change over the lifetime of the
transaction and it is the final value of this metric that is
recorded as the responsiveness of the transaction for use in
other APM MIB functions."
::= { apmTransactionEntry 3 }
apmTransactionAge OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeInterval
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"If this transaction is still executing, this value shall be
the length of time since it was started. If it has completed,
this value shall be the length of time it was executing."
::= { apmTransactionEntry 4 }
apmTransactionSuccess OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The success of this transaction up to this time. Once a
transaction has been marked as failed, it cannot move back
into the successful state."
::= { apmTransactionEntry 5 }
apmTransactionsRequestedHistorySize OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum number of completed transactions desired to be
retained in the apmTransactionTable. If the agent doesn't have
enough resources to retain this many, it will retain as many as
possible. Regardless of this value, the agent must attempt to
keep records for all current transactions it is monitoring.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
::= { apmMibObjects 12 }
-- The APM Exception table
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-- The APM Exception Table creates filters so that a management
-- station can get immediate notification of a transaction that has
-- had poor availability or responsiveness.
--
-- This function is particularly helpful in unaggregated situations
-- where the numbers of agents is relatively high and the transaction
-- rate per agent is relatively low (such as agents for desktops or
-- dedicated to small workgroups). Polling agents in such an
-- environment would either cause scalability problems (high rate) or
-- lead to long notification delays (low rate).
apmExceptionTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ApmExceptionEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table creates filters so that a management station can
get immediate notification of a transaction that has had poor
availability or responsiveness.
Each apmExceptionEntry is associated with a particular type of
transaction and is applied to all transactions of that
type. Multiple apmExceptionEntries may be associated with a
particular type of transaction. A transaction type is
identified by the value of the apmAppDirAppLocalIndex
component of the index.
Because the quality of a transaction is not known until it is
completed, these thresholds are only applied after the
transaction has completed."
::= { apmMibObjects 13 }
apmExceptionEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ApmExceptionEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A conceptual row in the apmExceptionTable.
The apmAppDirAppLocalIndex value in the index identifies
the application this entry will monitor.
The apmAppDirResponsivenessType value in the index
identifies the type of responsiveness metric this entry will
monitor."
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INDEX { apmAppDirAppLocalIndex,
apmAppDirResponsivenessType, apmExceptionIndex }
::= { apmExceptionTable 1 }
ApmExceptionEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
apmExceptionIndex Unsigned32,
apmExceptionResponsivenessComparison INTEGER,
apmExceptionResponsivenessThreshold Unsigned32,
apmExceptionUnsuccessfulException INTEGER,
apmExceptionResponsivenessEvents Counter32,
apmExceptionUnsuccessfulEvents Counter32,
apmExceptionOwner OwnerString,
apmExceptionStorageType StorageType,
apmExceptionStatus RowStatus
}
apmExceptionIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..65535)
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the
apmExceptionTable amongst other entries with equivalent index
values for apmAppDirAppLocalIndex and
apmAppDirResponsivenessType. Each such entry sets up
thresholds for a particular measurement of a particular
application."
::= { apmExceptionEntry 1 }
apmExceptionResponsivenessComparison OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
none(1),
greater(2),
less(3)
}
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"If this value is greater(2) or less(3), the associated
apmExceptionResponsivenessThreshold will be compared to this
value and an exception will be created if the responsiveness
is greater than the threshold (greater(2)) or less than the
threshold (less(3))."
::= { apmExceptionEntry 2 }
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apmExceptionResponsivenessThreshold OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The threshold that responsiveness metrics are compared to."
::= { apmExceptionEntry 3 }
apmExceptionUnsuccessfulException OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
off(1),
on(2)
}
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"If this value is on(2), an exception will be created if a
transaction of the associated type is unsuccessful."
::= { apmExceptionEntry 4 }
apmExceptionResponsivenessEvents OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of responsiveness exceptions generated. This
counter will be incremented even if no notification was sent
due to notifications not being configured or due to exceeding
the apmNotificationMaxRate value."
::= { apmExceptionEntry 5 }
apmExceptionUnsuccessfulEvents OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of unsuccessful exceptions generated. This
counter will be incremented even if no notification was sent
due to notifications not being configured or due to exceeding
the apmNotificationMaxRate value."
::= { apmExceptionEntry 6 }
apmExceptionOwner OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX OwnerString
MAX-ACCESS read-create
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STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The entity that configured this entry and is
therefore using the resources assigned to it."
::= { apmExceptionEntry 7 }
apmExceptionStorageType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX StorageType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The storage type of this apmReportControlEntry. If the value
of this object is 'permanent', no objects in this row need to
be writable."
::= { apmExceptionEntry 8 }
apmExceptionStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX RowStatus
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The status of this apmExceptionEntry. The only objects in the
entry that may be modified while the entry is in the active
state are apmExceptionResponsivenessComparison,
apmExceptionResponsivenessThreshold and
apmExceptionUnsuccessfulException."
::= { apmExceptionEntry 9 }
apmThroughputExceptionMinTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
UNITS "seconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Because the responsiveness for throughput-oriented
transactions is divided by the elapsed time, it can be very
sensitive to short-term performance variations for
transactions that take a short period of time. For example,
when downloading a very short file, a single dropped packet
could double or triple the total response time.
Further, for very short transactions, the fixed transaction
costs (handshake, setup time, authentication, round-trip time)
may dominate the total response time for the transaction.
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This object controls the minimum number of seconds that an
throughput-based transaction must exceed before an exception
can be generated for it. If this object is set to zero, then
all throughput-based transactions are candidates for
exceptions.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
DEFVAL { 10 }
::= { apmMibObjects 14 }
apmNotificationMaxRate OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum number of notifications that can be generated
from this agent by the apmExceptionTable in any 60 second
period.
The value of this object must persist across reboots."
DEFVAL { 1 }
::= { apmMibObjects 15 }
-- APM Notifications
apmNotifications OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { apm 0 }
apmTransactionResponsivenessAlarm NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECTS { apmExceptionResponsivenessThreshold,
apmTransactionResponsiveness }
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Notification sent when a transaction exceeds a threshold
defined in the apmException table. The index of the
included apmExceptionResponsivenessThreshold object identifies
the apmExceptionEntry that specified the threshold. The
apmTransactionResponsiveness variable identifies the actual
transaction and its responsiveness.
Agent implementors are urged to include additional data
objects in the alarm that may explain the reason for the
alarm. It is helpful to include such data in the alarm because
it describes the situation at the time the alarm was
generated, where polls after the fact may not provide
meaningful information. Examples of such information are CPU
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load, memory utilization, network utilization, and transaction
statistics."
::= { apmNotifications 1 }
apmTransactionUnsuccessfulAlarm NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECTS { apmExceptionResponsivenessThreshold }
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Notification sent when a transaction is unsuccessful.
The index of the included apmExceptionResponsivenessThreshold
object identifies both the type of the transaction that caused
this notification as well as the apmExceptionEntry that
specified the threshold.
Agent implementors are urged to include additional data
objects in the alarm that may explain the reason for the
alarm. It is helpful to include such data in the alarm because
it describes the situation at the time the alarm was
generated, where polls after the fact may not provide
meaningful information. Examples of such information are CPU
load, memory utilization, network utilization, and transaction
statistics."
::= { apmNotifications 2 }
apmCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Describes the requirements for conformance to
the APM MIB"
MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS { apmAppDirGroup, apmReportGroup }
GROUP apmUserDefinedApplicationsGroup
DESCRIPTION
"Implementation of the apmUserDefinedApplicationsGroup
is optional."
GROUP apmTransactionGroup
DESCRIPTION
"Implementation of the apmTransactionGroup is optional."
GROUP apmExceptionGroup
DESCRIPTION
"Implementation of the apmExceptionGroup is optional."
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GROUP apmNotificationGroup
DESCRIPTION
"Implementation of the apmNotificationGroup is optional."
::= { apmCompliances 1 }
apmAppDirGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS { apmAppDirConfig,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary1,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary2,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary3,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary4,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary5,
apmAppDirResponsivenessBoundary6,
apmBucketBoundaryLastChange, apmAppDirID,
apmNameMachineName, apmNameUserName }
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The APM MIB directory of applications and application verbs."
::= { apmGroups 1 }
apmUserDefinedApplicationsGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS { apmHttpFilterAppLocalIndex,
apmHttpFilterServerProtocol,
apmHttpFilterServerAddress, apmHttpFilterURLPath,
apmHttpFilterMatchType, apmHttpFilterOwner,
apmHttpFilterStorageType, apmHttpFilterRowStatus,
apmHttpIgnoreUnregisteredURLs, apmHttp4xxIsFailure,
apmUserDefinedAppParentIndex,
apmUserDefinedAppApplication }
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Objects used for creating and managing user-defined
applications."
::= { apmGroups 2 }
apmReportGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS { apmReportControlDataSource,
apmReportControlAggregationType,
apmReportControlInterval,
apmReportControlRequestedSize,
apmReportControlGrantedSize,
apmReportControlRequestedReports,
apmReportControlGrantedReports,
apmReportControlStartTime,
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apmReportControlReportNumber,
apmReportControlDeniedInserts,
apmReportControlDroppedFrames,
apmReportControlOwner,
apmReportControlStorageType,
apmReportControlStatus,
apmReportTransactionCount,
apmReportSuccessfulTransactions,
apmReportResponsivenessMean,
apmReportResponsivenessMin,
apmReportResponsivenessMax,
apmReportResponsivenessB1,
apmReportResponsivenessB2,
apmReportResponsivenessB3,
apmReportResponsivenessB4,
apmReportResponsivenessB5,
apmReportResponsivenessB6,
apmReportResponsivenessB7 }
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The apm report group controls the creation and retrieval of
reports that aggregate application performance."
::= { apmGroups 3 }
apmTransactionGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS { apmTransactionResponsiveness,
apmTransactionAge, apmTransactionSuccess,
apmTransactionsRequestedHistorySize }
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The apm transaction group contains statistics for
individual transactions."
::= { apmGroups 4 }
apmExceptionGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS { apmExceptionResponsivenessComparison,
apmExceptionResponsivenessThreshold,
apmExceptionUnsuccessfulException,
apmExceptionResponsivenessEvents,
apmExceptionUnsuccessfulEvents,
apmExceptionOwner, apmExceptionStorageType,
apmExceptionStatus, apmThroughputExceptionMinTime,
apmNotificationMaxRate }
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The apm exception group causes notifications to be sent
whenever transactions are detected that had poor availability
or responsiveness."
::= { apmGroups 5 }
apmNotificationGroup NOTIFICATION-GROUP
NOTIFICATIONS { apmTransactionResponsivenessAlarm,
apmTransactionUnsuccessfulAlarm }
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Notifications sent by an APM MIB agent."
::= { apmGroups 6 }
END
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4. Security Considerations
There are a number of management objects defined in this MIB
module with a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write and/or read-
create. Such objects may be considered sensitive or
vulnerable in some network environments. The support for SET
operations in a non-secure environment without proper
protection can have a negative effect on network operations.
Specifically, most of the read-write and read-create objects
in this MIB module may be used to configure an agent to reveal
network addresses, application usage information and
conversation statistics that may be considered sensitive in
some environments.
Some of the readable objects in this MIB module (i.e., objects
with a MAX-ACCESS other than not-accessible) may be considered
sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. It is
thus important to control even GET and/or NOTIFY access to
these objects and possibly to even encrypt the values of these
objects when sending them over the network via SNMP.
Specifically, this MIB contains network addresses, application
usage information, and conversation statistics. Data of this
nature may be considered sensitive in some environments. In
such environments the administrator may wish to restrict even
read-only SNMP access to the agent.
SNMP versions prior to SNMPv3 did not include adequate
security. Even if the network itself is secure (for example
by using IPSec), even then, there is no control as to who on
the secure network is allowed to access and GET/SET
(read/change/create/delete) the objects in this MIB module.
It is RECOMMENDED that implementers consider the security
features as provided by the SNMPv3 framework (see [16],
section 8), including full support for the SNMPv3
cryptographic mechanisms (for authentication and privacy).
Further, deployment of SNMP versions prior to SNMPv3 is NOT
RECOMMENDED. Instead, it is RECOMMENDED to deploy SNMPv3 and
to enable cryptographic security. It is then a
customer/operator responsibility to ensure that the SNMP
entity giving access to an instance of this MIB module is
properly configured to give access to the objects only to
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those principals (users) that have legitimate rights to indeed
GET or SET (change/create/delete) them.
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5. Normative References
[1] Harrington, D., Presuhn, R., and B. Wijnen, "An
Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks", RFC 3411,
December 2002.
[2] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Structure of Management
Information Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58, RFC 2578, April
1999.
[3] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Textual Conventions for
SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2579, April 1999.
[4] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for
SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2580, April 1999.
[5] Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M., and J. Davin,
"Simple Network Management Protocol", STD 15, RFC 1157,
May 1990.
[6] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser,
"Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2", RFC 1901,
January 1996.
[7] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Presuhn, R., Rose, M., and S.
Waldbusser, "Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC
3417, December 2002.
[8] Case, J., Harrington D., Presuhn R., and B. Wijnen,
"Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3412,
December 2002.
[9] Blumenthal, U., and B. Wijnen, "User-based Security Model
(USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMPv3)", STD 62, RFC 3414, December 2002.
[10] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Presuhn, R., Rose, M., and S.
Waldbusser, "Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC
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3416, December 2002.
[11] Levi, D., Meyer, P., and B. Stewart, "SNMPv3
Applications", RFC 3413, December 2002.
[12] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R., and K. McCloghrie, "View-based
Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3415, December
2002.
[13] McCloghrie, K. and F. Kastenholz, "The Interfaces Group
MIB", RFC 2863, Cisco Systems, Argon Networks, June 2000.
[14] Waldbusser, S., "Remote Network Monitoring Management
Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2", RFC 2021,
International Network Services, January 1997.
[15] Bierman, A., Bucci, C., and R. Iddon, "Remote Network
Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers", RFC 2895, Cisco
Systems, 3Com Inc., August 2000.
6. Informative References
[16] Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D. and B. Stewart,
"Introduction and Applicability Statements for Internet-
Standard Management Framework", RFC 3410, December 2002.
[17] Waldbusser, S., "Remote Network Monitoring MIB", STD 59,
RFC 2819, Lucent Technologies, May 2000
[18] Waterman, R., Lahaye, B., Romascanu, D., and S.
Waldbusser, "Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for
Switched Networks Version 1.0", RFC 2613, Allot Networks
Inc., Xylan Corp., Lucent Technologies, June 1999.
[19] Kalbfleisch, C., Krupczak, C., Presuhn, R., and J.
Saperia, Application Management MIB, RFC 2564 May 1999.
7. Intellectual Property
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technology described in this document or the extent to which
any license under such rights might or might not be available;
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neither does it represent that it has made any effort to
identify any such rights. Information on the IETF's
procedures with respect to rights in standards-track and
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Copies of claims of rights made available for publication and
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users of this specification can be obtained from the IETF
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The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its
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other proprietary rights which may cover technology that may
be required to practice this standard. Please address the
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8. Full Copyright Statement
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Table of Contents
1 The Internet-Standard Management Framework ............ 2
2 Overview .............................................. 3
2.1 Report Aggregation .................................. 4
2.2 AppLocalIndex Linkages .............................. 10
2.3 Measurement Methodology ............................. 11
2.4 Instrumentation Architectures ....................... 12
2.4.1 Application Directory Caching ..................... 12
2.4.2 Push Model ........................................ 12
2.5 Structure of this MIB Module ........................ 14
2.5.1 The APM Application Directory Group ............... 14
2.5.2 The APM User Defined Applications Group ........... 14
2.5.3 The APM Report Group .............................. 15
2.5.4 The APM Transaction Group ......................... 15
2.5.5 The APM Exception Group ........................... 15
2.5.6 The APM Notification Group ........................ 16
3 Definitions ........................................... 17
4 Security Considerations ............................... 66
5 Normative References .................................. 68
6 Informative References ................................ 69
7 Intellectual Property ................................. 69
8 Full Copyright Statement .............................. 70
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