OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Viewing Performance Data Online

The simplest way to look at historical SNMP data is to select the device you’re interested in and choose the Performance:Display SNMP data:For Selected Nodes menu. This brings up the xnmgraph GUI which displays the device performance data found in the database, if any.

To view live SNMP data from several devices on specific interfaces, you can launch the xnmgraph application from a command line. For example, to plot ifInOctets and ifOutOctets for MIB instances 2-5 for both node1 and node2, use this command:

xnmgraph -mib \ 
"interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets:In Bytes:[2-5]::::::,\ 
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets:Out Bytes:[2-5]::::::" \ 
node1 node2 

You can use the snmpColDump application along with ...