IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

SNMP agents

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a standard protocol that is used for monitoring systems and network devices. SNMP agents request periodic status and statistics from each registered pipeline in the system. The information the SNMP agent gathers about each registered pipeline is displayed in the Pipeline Status tab.

Before SNMP agents can monitor pipelines:

SNMP agents are services and can be stopped and started as needed.

Example of using an SNMP agent

Company ABC monitors all their pipelines using the application monitor. They have added another pipeline node (EAS-2) to host three new pipelines: Pipeline300, Pipeline310, and Pipeline320. To monitor these pipelines, Company ABC Operators must complete the following tasks: Once the new pipelines are running, Company ABC Operators can now monitor their status and statistics through the Configuration Console.


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Last updated: 2009