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24.6.4. Retrieving Performance Data over SNMP
The Net-SNMP Agent in Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a wide variety of performance information over the SNMP protocol. In addition, the agent can be queried for a listing of the installed RPM packages on the system, a listing of currently running processes on the system, or the network configuration of the system.
This section provides an overview of OIDs related to performance tuning available over SNMP. It assumes that the net-snmp-utils package is installed and that the user is granted access to the SNMP tree as described in Section 24.6.3.2, “Configuring Authentication”.
24.6.4.1. Hardware Configuration
The
Host Resources MIB included with Net-SNMP presents information about the current hardware and software configuration of a host to a client utility. Table 24.3, “Available OIDs” summarizes the different OIDs available under that MIB.
Table 24.3. Available OIDs
| OID | Description |
|---|---|
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystem | Contains general system information such as uptime, number of users, and number of running processes. |
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorage | Contains data on memory and file system usage. |
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrDevices | Contains a listing of all processors, network devices, and file systems. |
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRun | Contains a listing of all running processes. |
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPerf | Contains memory and CPU statistics on the process table from HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRun. |
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalled | Contains a listing of the RPM database. |
There are also a number of SNMP tables available in the Host Resources MIB which can be used to retrieve a summary of the available information. The following example displays
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSTable:
~]$ snmptable -Cb localhost HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSTable
SNMP table: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSTable
Index MountPoint RemoteMountPoint Type
Access Bootable StorageIndex LastFullBackupDate LastPartialBackupDate
1 "/" "" HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrFSLinuxExt2
readWrite true 31 0-1-1,0:0:0.0 0-1-1,0:0:0.0
5 "/dev/shm" "" HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrFSOther
readWrite false 35 0-1-1,0:0:0.0 0-1-1,0:0:0.0
6 "/boot" "" HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrFSLinuxExt2
readWrite false 36 0-1-1,0:0:0.0 0-1-1,0:0:0.0
For more information about
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, see the /usr/share/snmp/mibs/HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.txt file.
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