Snmp

The newest release of the Performance Monitor for MariaDB and MySQL v2.0.0 (fpmmm) allows you to monitor your MariaDB and MySQL databases via SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).

This feature enables you to report your Database Metrics into Enterprise Monitoring solutions from Microsoft, IBM or into Oracle Cloud Control.

In this article we will show you the few simple steps it needs to send the data from your fpmmm Agent to your SNMP Manager.

Check if SNMP Manager can be reached

To make sure fpmmm can …

Table of Contents

• What is SNMP?
• SNMP Agent (snmptrap)
• SNMP Manager (snmptrapd)
• Test the SNMP Agent
• Creating your own MIB
• Sending MariaDB SNMP traps from PHP
• Literature

What is SNMP?

A customer recently had the question if an how his MariaDB database can be easily monitored with SNMP?

SNMP means Simple Network Management Protocol. It is a widely used and standardized protocol for monitoring the health of network and other devices (including services). In principle you can monitor nearly everything with …