HP OSMS white paper: How to Monitor JBoss v4.0.3 SP1 with HP SIM using SNMP

Introduction to SNMP
Familiarity with the background and fundamentals of SNMP, Object Identifiers (OIDs) and Management
Information Base (MIB) is useful in understanding the concepts presented in this white paper. As networks
have grown and additional components added (for example, routers, switches, hubs, servers, printers,
workstations, and SANs), the management of enterprise networks has become very complex and expensive.
Software management tools based on SNMP, such as HP SIM, were created to enable remote network
administrators to manage network performance, find and solve network problems, and plan for network
growth.
Device management is made possible with SNMP through a predefined Management Information Base
(MIB), which describes the manageable attributes of a network object. The architecture of SNMP
management is comprised of the following four basic components:
• Managed nodes with an SNMP agent that provides remote access to management instrumentation.
In the implementation described in this white paper, this is the JBoss snmp-adaptor.
• At least one SNMP manager. For example, HP SIM or some other SNMP manager.
• A management protocol used to convey management information between the agents and managers.
In other words, SNMP.
• Definitions of management information known as the MIB.
The following figure shows the relationship between these four components:
Figure 1 SNMP Components
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