Generating the Watchpoint OID

You can send traffic-related metrics from Watchpoints to your SNMP manager. To send Watchpoint data, you create the SNMP OID for the Watchpoint and select the metrics that you want defined in the MIB.

Before you begin

Ensure that the Watchpoint for which you want to build an OID is exposed in the MIB. To do so, open the Watchpoint details and ensure that the Expose Watchpoint in MIB check box is selected, as shown in the following figure:

Expose Watchpoint in MIB feature

To generate the Watchpoint OID

To perform this procedure, you must have Operator-level access, or higher.

1. In the Real User Analyzer, click the Watchpoints tab.

   The Watchpoint summary page opens.

2. Click the Watchpoint for which you want to build an OID.
3. On the Watchpoint details page, on the Action menu, click Build an OID.
    The Watchpoint OID builder opens, as shown in the following figure:
   
   Watchpoint OID builder
   
   
4. Select one of the following metrics that you want to access through the system MIB:
   • Host — Delay introduced by server processing (web, application, and database)
   • Network — Delay caused by network transmission
   • End-to-end — Total delay in request handling
   • Page-render — Time the browser took to load a page and its content
   • SSL — Delay caused by SSL encryption
   • Throughput — Network throughput
   • TCP RTT — Time for the request to travel the network between client and server
   • Errors — Number of errors during the last 5 minutes
   • HTTP Status code — HTTP value from the web server in response to the request
   • HTTP method — Type of HTTP transaction used in the request
   • Out-of-order TCP segments — Number of TCP segments delivered out of the expected sequence
   • TCP retransmissions — Number of TCP segments that have been re-sent
   • Monitor — A variety of metrics and statistics to get an overall view of the performance
5. Choose a calculation for the selected metric, for example 95th percentile.
   The OID builder automatically generates the OID based on the variable parameters:
   • Watchpoint ID
   • Metric
   • Calculation
     
     Copy the generated Watchpoint OID and use it in your system MIB.

Related topic

Downloading-the-system-MIB