The process MIB provides a standard SNMP interface
with control row semantics.
The MIB module contains:
Process running table, psRunningTable
Lists the processes
running on a host.
Process monitor control table, psControlTable
Configures
monitoring and control of host processes.
Process exception table, psExceptionTable
Lists process
exceptions caught on a host.
Process running table
The process running table (psRunningTable)
lists all the processes running on a host. Each row in the table represents
one process. You cannot configure table rows themselves because they
contain information about the processes running; however, you can
control the process by setting its psRunningState row
object.
Process monitor control table
The process monitor control table (psControlTable)
configures process monitors. Each row represents a monitor for a specific
attribute of a process or set of processes. The monitor compares the process
attribute against a defined threshold and any violations of the threshold,
known as process exceptions, are logged in the process exception table.
Process exception table
The process exception table (psExceptionTable)
logs exceptions generated by the process monitors defined in the control table.
Process monitors generate exceptions when the sampled process attribute specified
by psControlTestAttribute meets the test criteria set by psControlTestOperator and psControlTestThreshold.