WebLogic SNMP Management Guide
Introduction and Roadmap
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) enables enterprise-wide management systems to manage heterogeneous software and hardware environments from a single management console.
The following sections describe the contents and organization of this guide—WebLogic SNMP Management Guide.
- Document Scope and Audience
- Guide to this Document
- Related Documentation
- Standards Supported by WebLogic Server SNMP
- New and Changed SNMP Features in This Release
Document Scope and Audience
This document is a resource for systems administrators who use SNMP to monitor WebLogic Server.
The topics in this document describe the SNMP capabilities of WebLogic Server. The Administration Console Online Help provides specific, task-related information on configuring SNMP services in a WebLogic Server domain.
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with SNMP and general network management concepts. For background information on SNMP, refer to the documents listed in Related Documentation.
Guide to this Document
This document is organized as follows:
- This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap, describes the audience of the guide and provides pointers to related documentation.
- Understanding the WebLogic Sever SNMP Agents and MIB, describes basic concepts of Simple Network Management Protocol as they apply to managing WebLogic Servers.
- Understanding WebLogic Server Notifications, describes the characteristics of WebLogic enterprise-specific SNMP notifications.
- Understanding SNMP Proxies, describes how WebLogic Server can function as a master agent that proxies for other SNMP agents.
- WebLogic SNMP Command-Line Utility, describes a command-line utility that offers many of the same features as an SNMP manager.
Related Documentation
For step-by-step instructions on configuring SNMP services in a WebLogic Server domain, see “Use SNMP to Monitor WebLogic Server” in the Administration Console Online Help.
For information on other technologies for monitoring WebLogic Server, see the following documents:
- Developing Custom Management Utilities with JMX
- Configuring and Using the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework
For background information on SNMP, see com.protocols.snmp SNMP FAQ Part 1 and Part 2.
Standards Supported by WebLogic Server SNMP
This release of WebLogic Server supports the following SNMP standards:
Table 1-1 Supported SNMP Standards Feature Supported Standard SNMP protocol SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 Network protocol UDP, TCP Authentication protocol for SNMPv3 HMAC-MD5-96, HMAC-SHA-96 Privacy protocol for SNMPv3
- Cipher block chaining or CBC mode of the Data Encryption Standard
- The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cipher Algorithm.See RFC 3826 at http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=3826
New and Changed SNMP Features in This Release
For a comprehensive listing of the new WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see “What's New in WebLogic Server” in Release Notes.