Using System Instrumentation
Standards for network and system management, such as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Desktop Management Interface (DMI), have been developed to help make management easier. They provide industry-standard ways to build instrumentation and to interface into the instrumentation. SNMP is used to access Management Information Bases (MIBs), and DMI is used to access Management Information Formats (MIFs).
Standard MIBs and MIFs define the metrics that can be instrumented by any vendor. Vendor-specific MIBs and MIFs provide vendor-specific instrumentation. This section looks at some of the system instrumentation available through each of these standards, which can be used to obtain information about your application. ...
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