September 2000
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
6h 41m
English
book
OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution
by John Blommers
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Who Creates MIB Applications?
NNM provides a feature that uses a simple GUI to create new custom MIB applications. The user specifies if the application displays data as a form, table, or graph, and which MIB variables will be retrieved. The form application is suited for displaying any combination of scalar MIB values, one per line. The table application is suited for displaying structured tabular information, such as a list of network interfaces. The graph application is suited for displaying time-varying scalar values, such as performance data.
The IT group supplying the NNM tool for general use will prefer to supply their own MIB applications since they impact the menu structure via the application registration files. Therefore, the NNM ...