OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Creating Custom Menu Items

While the standard NNM menus provide useful information, local requirements often require additional menus to provide access to specialized information. For this reason the MIB Application Builder facility is provided. Three kinds of MIB applications can be constructed entirely by using it.

The form MIB application simply retrieves the user-specified MIB values from the selected device and displays them in a simple labeled form. The MIB values can be completely unrelated and come from different parts of the MIB and even from different MIBs.

The table MIB application is intended to query an object with multiple instances. For example, you can specify the MTU, interface speed, and input octets MIB values and the table ...