Specifications

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The OIDs and devices to be polled, the poll interval, number of polling cycles and the amount of

polled data to be stored is all defined in the Administrator-created

collections.xml file.

● The MIB Query tool allows an Administrator to create a one-time MIB query request to retrieve the

value of specific variables from a set of specified devices. This is a one-shot query, and does not poll

repeatedly or store the data it retrieves.

The MIB Query tool is accessible only to users who have an Administrator role.

Defining a MIB Collection

A MIB Collection is defined in an XML file named collections.xml that is stored in the Ridgeline

user/collections directory of the Ridgeline installation. You can specify both scalar and tabular OIDs.

You must also specify the set of devices (by IP address) that should be polled for this data, and provide

some additional properties such as the polling interval.

The

collections.xml file must have the following format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<collection name="CollectionName"

pollingIntervalInSecs="60"

initialState="running"

saveData="yes"

maxPollsPerDevice="50"

deletePercentage="25">

<table>

</table>

<table>

</table>

</scalar>

</collection>

</collections>

Within the outermost collections statement, you can define multiple individual collections, each

bracketed with