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:
- An SNMP agent must be installed and configured on the pipeline node that
is running the pipelines that you want to monitor.
- Each pipeline that you want to monitor must be registered in the Configuration
Console and configured for monitoring.
- The SNMP agent must be started and running on the pipeline node, using
the same port number as configured during pipeline installation. This SNMP
agent port number is system-wide, not per pipeline node. The default SNMP
port number is 13516, but you can locate the SNMP agent port number configured
in the server.xml file located on each pipeline node.
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:
- Install and configure one SNMP agent on the pipeline node EAS-2.
- In the Configuration Console, register each new pipeline (Pipeline300,
Pipeline310, and Pipeline320) on the Pipelines tab.
- Start the SNMP agent on pipeline node EAS-2. Make sure that the SNMP agent
is using the system-wide port number that was configured when you installed
the pipelines on this pipeline node.
- Start each registered pipeline for processing. Make sure to type the exact
name that was registered to the pipeline, since registered pipeline names
are case sensitive.
Once the new pipelines are running, Company ABC Operators can now monitor
their status and statistics through the Configuration Console.