Using System Instrumentation
Standards for network and system management, such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Desktop Management Interface (DMI), were developed to help make management easier. They provide industry-standard ways to build instrumentation and interface into the instrumentation, respectively. 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 used by any vendor's instrumentation. Vendor-specific MIBs and MIFs provide vendor-specific instrumentation. This section looks at some of the system instrumentation available through each of these standards.
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