Monitoring the IBM MQ Appliance by using SNMP

You can configure SNMP to monitor the appliance. The appliance supports SNMP versions 1, 2c, and 3.

When you configure SNMP on the appliance, you enable one or more SNMP managers to interrogate the appliance to retrieve information about its current state. The appliance objects that can be interrogated are defined in three MIB files. You can view the MIB files by using the web UI (see Viewing MIBs by using the web UI).

The appliance can also respond to events by generating traps (v1 and v2c) or notifications (v3). These traps or notifications can be sent to SNMP managers to inform them that the event has occurred.

You can configure SNMP on the appliance either by using the web UI or the command line interface. See SNMP Settings.