HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 User Guide

28 Compiling and customizing MIBs

Systems Insight Manager; provides the capability of managing systems through SNMP and by

receiving incoming SNMP trap events. Systems Insight Manager ships with many MIBs

pre-configured. For a complete list, see “Out-of-the-box MIB support in Systems Insight Manager”

(page 199).You can use tools provided by Systems Insight Manager to integrate third-party (non-HP)

SNMP v1/v2 MIBs into Systems Insight Manager and to provide support for processing and

displaying traps from other systems. The MIB syntax extensions supported by Systems Insight

Manager provide additional value in customizing specific trap information. Finally, the set of MIBs

included with Systems Insight Manager to provide out-of-the-box support for many HP systems.

Integration of third-party MIBs is a topic for advanced users of Systems Insight Manager. Most

vendors tend to loosely follow industry standards for the development of MIBs and MIB compilers.

Therefore, it is often the case that MIBs require some changes and customization on the part of

the end-user to properly integrate the MIBs with a management application such as Systems Insight

Manager.

This chapter frequently references directories and tool locations throughout the Systems Insight

Manager directory structure. This directory structure varies depending upon your installation choices

and on the operating system under which you have installed Systems Insight Manager. Typical

installation paths are as follows:

Windows

• C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\ as the <BASE> installation