Monitoring with SNMP

It's very common to use the SNMP protocol to send monitoring data to enterprise management systems. The popular Nagios network monitoring tool is SNMP based, as are several other monitoring tools. SNMP-based monitoring helps orchestrate interactions with other SNMP-based devices such as load balancers. You can use the SNMP protocol by installing SNMP agents on each of the Managed Servers or systems to transmit data to the management system. The SNMP agents collect the information from the WebLogic Server MBeans. The SNMP management system can poll the SNMP agents for monitored information, or you can configure traps whereby the SNMP agents automatically send data to the managers upon reaching a threshold when the server ...

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