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28 Compiling and customizing MIBs
Systems Insight Manager; provides the capability of managing systems through SNMP and by
receiving incoming SNMP trap events. Systems Insight Manager ships with many MIBs
pre-configured. For a complete list, see
“Out-of-the-box MIB support in Systems Insight Manager”
(page 199) .You can use tools provided by Systems Insight Manager to integrate third-party (non-HP)
SNMP v1/v2 MIBs into Systems Insight Manager and to provide support for processing and
displaying traps from other systems. The MIB syntax extensions supported by Systems Insight
Manager provide additional value in customizing specific trap information. Finally, the set of MIBs
included with Systems Insight Manager to provide out-of-the-box support for many HP systems.
Integration of third-party MIBs is a topic for advanced users of Systems Insight Manager. Most
vendors tend to loosely follow industry standards for the development of MIBs and MIB compilers.
Therefore, it is often the case that MIBs require some changes and customization on the part of
the end-user to properly integrate the MIBs with a management application such as Systems Insight
Manager.
This chapter frequently references directories and tool locations throughout the Systems Insight
Manager directory structure. This directory structure varies depending upon your installation choices
and on the operating system under which you have installed Systems Insight Manager. Typical
installation paths are as follows:
Windows
•
C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\ as the <BASE> installation
directory
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C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\mibs for all MIB and CFG files
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C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\lbin for mcompile
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C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\bin for mxmib
HP-UX and Linux
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/opt/mx as the <BASE> installation directory
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/opt/mx/mibs for all MIB and CFG files
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/opt/mx/bin for mcompile and mxmib
NOTE: Compiling MIBs into Systems Insight Manager only enables the console to receive SNMP
traps from systems. This does NOT extend the data collection mechanism to collect data points
from the compiled MIBs into the database. This type of functionality is currently not available in
Systems Insight Manager.
MIB management tools
Systems Insight Manager provides three tools for use with MIB integration and trap customization.
MIBs are registered with Systems Insight Manager using two command-line tools. These tools are
only accessible to the administrator or root user of the operating system. They are:
•
mcompile
•
mxmib
In addition, Systems Insight Manager provides a GUI tool to display and edit the trap settings for
MIBs already compiled using the command-line tools listed above. This tool is the SNMP Trap
Settings page. The remainder of this section discusses each of the tools provided and elaborates
on their specific usage.
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