Logging into SmartMIB and Verifying the Installation

After the successful installation and setup of the SmartMIB application suite; the user needs to verify that the different installed components are running properly before deploying the application into full network management production.

The installation verification checklist and details are:

Starting the SmartMIB application

To start the application the user should go to Start > Programs > SmartMIB

The application could also be started under the Start button as seen below.

Logging into SmartMIB with the ‘Administrator’ user

Upon starting the application; a login window appears.

Upon launching the SmartMIB application; a transitional license information message window appears first while loading the application GUI before quickly turning into the login prompt window as in the next two figures.

The default username is Administrator which is initially comes with an empty password! 

Logging in correctly will start the main SmartMIB interface as shown below..

Adding devices to the inventory

Populating devices into the Inventory should be done first as other service modules and components will not work unless the inventory is populated with at least a single element to be managed.

To add a new device to the Inventory; choose the Inventory menu option from the main SmartMIB menu and click on ‘Managed Devices’ to open the ‘Managed Devices list’ window.

More details are provided in Managing Device Inventory section of this documentation

Running the basic processes (sysGrp and SysAvailability)

Basic management scripts and processes are those collecting and reporting on the managed System’s information as defined in the RFC1213 MIB, and each of the managed elements reachability statistics.

To start the processes; choose the Processes menu option from the main SmartMIB menu and click on ‘Execution’ to open the ‘Process Executions’ window. Select the appropriate process and click ‘Start’.

More details are provided in Administering the SOSL Based Management Scripts section of this documentation.

Testing the SNMP Poll Command Line

Due to the importance of polling specific MIB objects and testing their corresponding values independently from the rest of the management scripts.

The supported SNMP polling commands are:

Snmpwalk command:

Path:

C:\usr

Usage: snmpwalk_d [options...] <ip/hostname> {<community>} [<objectID>]

UCD-snmp version: 4.2.6

Snmpget command:

Path:

C:\usr\bin

Usage: snmpget_d [options...] <ip/hostname> {<community>} [<objectID>...]

UCD-snmp version: 4.2.6

Note:

The SNMP polling commands are based on the popular UCD-SNMP command line utility which is familiar to many –if not all– serious SNMP and network management users and experts.

Defining and viewing Availability Graphs

To configure/define a Graph; choose the Reports menu option from the main SmartMIB menu and click on ‘Graphs Definition’ to open the ‘Graphs list’ window.

The ‘Add’ button is used then to build the graph to plot the reachability statistics represented by the sysAvailability object and as per section Graph Generator Engine Option

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