Oracle® Fusion Middleware

SNMP Management Guide for Oracle WebLogic Server

12c Release 1 (12.1.1)

E24424-02

January 2012

Documentation for administrators that describes the SNMP capabilities of Oracle WebLogic Server.

Oracle Fusion Middleware SNMP Management Guide for Oracle WebLogic Server, 12c Release 1 (12.1.1)

E24424-02

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Contents

Preface

- Documentation Accessibility

- Conventions

1 Introduction and Roadmap

- Document Scope and Audience

- Guide to this Document

- Related Documentation

- Standards Supported by WebLogic Server SNMP

- New and Changed SNMP Features in This Release

2 Understanding the WebLogic Server SNMP Agents and MIB

- Overview of SNMP

- WebLogic Server SNMP Agents

- Organizing SNMP Agents in a Domain

- Domain-Scoped Agent

- Configuring SNMP Protocols

- Configuring UDP and TCP Ports

- Narrowing the Scope of a Request

- Monitoring SNMP Agents

- Security for SNMP

- Community Names for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2

- Disabling SNMPv1 and SNMPv2

- Configuring Security for SNMPv3

- Invalidating the SNMPv3 Credential Cache

- MIB Module for WebLogic Server

- Hierarchical Data Model

- Configuration and Runtime Hierarchies

- Relationship of the MIB Module to the WebLogic Server MBean Data Model

- Object Identifiers

- OIDs for Objects and Variables

- Browsing the MIB

- Monitoring Custom MBeans

- Structure of the Custom MBean MIB Module

3 Understanding WebLogic Server Notifications

- INFORM Notifications and TRAP Notifications

- Automatically Generated Notifications

- Log Message Notifications

- Variable Bindings in Log Message Notifications

- Monitor Notifications

- Variable Bindings in Monitor Notifications

- Attribute Change Notifications

- Variable Bindings in Attribute Change Notifications

- OIDs for WebLogic Server Notifications

4 Understanding SNMP Proxies

- SNMP Agent as Proxy for Other Agents

- Configuring the SNMP Protocols for Proxied Communication

- Specifying Credentials for Proxied Communication

- Choosing Listen Ports for Proxied Agents

- The Microsoft Windows SNMP Service

5 WebLogic SNMP Command-Line Utility

- Required Environment for the SNMP Command-Line Utility

- Syntax and Commands for the SNMP Command-Line Utility

- Examples

Preface

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Documentation Accessibility

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