This white paper has demonstrated how you can monitor JBoss with HP SIM using SNMP. The SNMP agent provided by JBoss is used to intercept JMX notification and convert them into SNMP traps for HP SIM to consume. The conversion done by the SnmpAgentService is an example only and does not convert the JMX notifications into traps with valid OIDs or complete trap payloads. In order to do this, a MIB defining the SNMP manageable objects in JBoss must exist and the trap payload created by the notification must be modified.
The basic steps to accomplish this are as follows:
Obtain a valid Enterprise OID for JBoss from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) if one does not already exist. For more information, go to the IANA Web site at:
http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/enterprise.pl
Create a MIB file to define OIDs for all manageable objects in JBoss (Presumably, this would be all of the possible JMX notifications emitted by MBeans). Alternatively, you could define a MIB file containing only those JMX notifications that are emitted by your applications Mbeans.
Create a notifications.xml file to map each JMX notification to the corresponding OID defined in the MIB file.
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