Defining A Mib Collection - Extreme Networks EPICenter Guide Manual

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Defining a MIB Collection

A MIB Collection is defined in an XML file named
directory of the EPICenter installation. You can specify both scalar and tabular
user/collections
OIDs. You must also specify the set of devices (by IP address) that should be polled for this data, and
provide some additional properties such as the polling interval.
The file must have the following format:
collections.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<collections>
<collection name="CollectionName"
pollingIntervalInSecs="60"
initialState="running"
saveData="yes"
maxPollsPerDevice="50"
deletePercentage="25">
<table>
<oid name="variableName1" dataLabel="Label/description" />
</table>
<table>
<oid name="variableName2" dataLabel="Label/description" />
<oid name="variableName3" dataLabel="Label/description" />
</table>
<scalar>
<oid name="scalarVariable1" dataLabel="Label/description" />
<oid name="scalarVariable2" dataLabel="Label/description" />
</scalar>
<scope ipAddress="123.234.345.456" />
<scope ipAddress="123.234.345.789" />
</collection>
</collections>
Within the outermost
collections
bracketed with
<collection name= ... > </collection>
The collection properties must be defined in the collection statement at the beginning of each collection
definition:
Table 4: Control properties for a MIB collection specification
name
pollingIntervalInSecs
initialState
saveData
maxPollsPerDevice
deletePercentage
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statement, you can define multiple individual collections, each
A name for the collection
The interval at which EPICenter should poll for the variables defined in this collection
Whether this collection should start running immediately upon loading (values are
"running" and "stopped")
Whether the collected data should be saved to the EPICenter database ("yes" or "no")
The maximum number of poll result sets that should be saved in the database
The percentage of the saved data that should be deleted when the file reaches it
specified limit
that is stored in the EPICenter
collections.xml
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