SNMP MIB Monitoring in WatchMyDC®

Introduction

WatchMyDC® supports custom SNMP MIB Monitoring for endpoints through OID. This document demonstrates the process of adding an SNMP OID from a MIB for observability and alerting.

Dependency and Limitations

1. The WatchMyDC® Collector is imported and registered to the WatchMyDC® Dashboard
2. The WatchMyDC® MIB repository contains MIBs’ from most of the manufacturers. However, in the case of a MIB is not present in the list, please contact WatchMyDC® support with the vendor & MIB name. (WatchMyDC® is working to import their own MIBs’ soon.)
3. ‘Line Chart’ and ‘Text/Num‘ card support a single OID only.
4. It takes 4-5 minutes to display the value or graph after adding the custom metric.
5. WatchMyDC® does not support custom metrics for WMI nodes.

Process for SNMP MIB Monitoring

Adding a Custom Metric of a Physical Node

1. Select your node.
2. Then, click ‘Edit‘ from the top right corner, then click on ‘Add‘. A secondary drawer should appear.
3. Then, add a card of your choice (‘Pie Chart‘, ‘Bar Chart‘, ‘Line Chart‘ of ‘Text/Num‘) from the ‘Custom Graphs’. The card property will append on the list.
4. Then, put a ‘Title‘ of you need
5. Then, click on the ‘Browse Metrics‘ radio button followed by the ‘Add Custom Metric‘. A MIB Browser should open.
6. Thereafter, browse or type to search for your desired vendor name in ‘Vendor‘ field
7. Then, browse or type to search for your desired MIB name in ‘MIB File‘ field
8. Then, browse or type to search for your desired OID name in ‘Browser‘ > ‘search‘ area
9. Thereafter, select one or multiple OIDs by clicking the checkbox field on right. Selected OIDs will appear on the ‘Selected OIDs‘ window.
10. Then, click ‘Save‘ to exit the MIB Browser.
11. Select one OID name from the first dropdown. Please note – ‘Line Chart’ and ‘Text/Num‘ card supports a single OID.
12. Then, click ‘Add Metric’ to add multiple OIDs for ‘Pie Chart’ or ‘Bar Chart‘ cards.
13. Thereafter, click the icon on the top-right corner of the card to save. This will close the secondary drawer.
14. Finally, move the newly created card to your desired position in the primary device drawer. Click ‘Save‘.

Adding a Custom Metric of a Cloud Service, such as AWS Service

1. Select your service.
2. Then, click on the ‘Edit‘ from the top right corner, then click ‘Add‘. Secondary drawer will populate.
3. Then, add a card of your choice (‘Pie Chart‘, ‘Bar Chart‘, ‘Line Chart‘ of ‘Text/Num‘) from ‘Custom Graphs’. Selected card property will amend on the list.
4. On next, set a ‘Title‘ as needed.
5. Then, select ‘Dimension‘ as Instance ID.
6. In the ‘Metric Name‘ field, select the required metric from the dropdown menu, as provided by the cloud provider.
7. The, click the ‘Browse Metrics‘ radio button followed by ‘Add Custom Metric‘. A MIB Browser will open.
8. Then, click the icon on the top-right corner of the card to save. This will close the secondary drawer.
9. Finally, move the newly created card to your desired position in the primary device drawer. Click on the ‘Save‘ button.

Create an Alert Definition based on the Custom Metric

1. Click on the ‘Action Center‘
2. Inside the ‘Select Device‘ area select the ‘Category‘ of your node (ex: ‘Networks’, ‘Cloud’) and select the node from the dropdown list.
3. Inside the ‘Select Metric‘ area type and search the custom metric you added in the earlier section.
4. Inside the ‘Select Conditions‘ area set the alert condition
5. Inside the ‘Select Alert & Severity‘ area set the alert severity as you need and select the notification method (ex: ‘Slack‘).
6. Click on the save ‘Save‘
7. The alert definition should appear in the list and activates immediately.

What’s Next

You can engage WatchMyDC® automation based on the custom OID or custom metric observability threshold.