Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Consider using DPOD (DataPower Operations Dashboard) - IBM's premier tool for monitoring and management of IBM DataPower Gateways - but that requires purchasing a separate license. It has much more than what you mentioned.

A quick overview video (6 min) is available at https://ibm.biz/dpod-docs

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

Consider using DPOD (DataPower Operations Dashboard) - IBM's premier tool for monitoring and management of IBM DataPower Gateways - but that requires purchasing a separate license. It has much more than what you mentioned.

A quick overview video (6 min) is available at https://ibm.biz/dpod-docs

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

>  Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Yes.  To get the MIBs off of the box, log into the appliance's default domain, in the control panel, search for SNMP settings and open the configuration.  Then select the "Enterprise MIBs" tab.  There you can get the MIBs and feed them into whatever tool you are using for SNMP.

> Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

This is a complicated issue, but certainly start with memory, load and CPU.  You'll likely also want to monitor free file system and encrypted file system space. 

What are you most interested in?

For other considerations, are you using Physical or Virtual machines, because this can matter.

------------------------------
Joseph Morgan

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 02:38 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 18, 2023 02:11 AM
From: Amit Munwes
Subject: Traffic details

Consider using DPOD (DataPower Operations Dashboard) - IBM's premier tool for monitoring and management of IBM DataPower Gateways - but that requires purchasing a separate license. It has much more than what you mentioned.

A quick overview video (6 min) is available at https://ibm.biz/dpod-docs

------------------------------
Amit Munwes

Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 17, 2023 09:29 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Thanks @Joseph for helping on the first point.

As of now, we have just started with CPU, Memory, reloads alerts.

We would like to track :-
1) Total number of transactions processed by an appliance in 10 min, 1 day.
2) Number of users logged in?
3) Manual Configuration changes like cache flush

What is the difference between these two?
"dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3 

"dpStatusHTTPTransactions2tenMinutes" -- (tps) .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.153.1.5

We are using Physical Appliances.

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 01:30 PM
From: Joseph Morgan
Subject: Traffic details

>  Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Yes.  To get the MIBs off of the box, log into the appliance's default domain, in the control panel, search for SNMP settings and open the configuration.  Then select the "Enterprise MIBs" tab.  There you can get the MIBs and feed them into whatever tool you are using for SNMP.

> Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

This is a complicated issue, but certainly start with memory, load and CPU.  You'll likely also want to monitor free file system and encrypted file system space. 

What are you most interested in?

For other considerations, are you using Physical or Virtual machines, because this can matter.

------------------------------
Joseph Morgan

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 02:38 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 18, 2023 02:11 AM
From: Amit Munwes
Subject: Traffic details

Consider using DPOD (DataPower Operations Dashboard) - IBM's premier tool for monitoring and management of IBM DataPower Gateways - but that requires purchasing a separate license. It has much more than what you mentioned.

A quick overview video (6 min) is available at https://ibm.biz/dpod-docs

------------------------------
Amit Munwes

Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 17, 2023 09:29 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

What firmware version are you running?  I don't think HTTP Transactions status (original nor 2) are used anymore.   HTTP Connections status might be more useful, though is it per XML Manager and must be aggregated across all domains to get a total picture.

Connections Accepted is pretty self-explanatory, but may not represent the actual number of transactions, depending upon how one defines a "transaction".  That is, I don't consider an accepted connection as necessarily a transaction.

When you say number of users logged in, I suspect you're not talking about active DataPower users?  I suspect you are talking about the number of unique users accessing services, correct?   If, however, you are talking about active DataPower users, then the Active Users status is what you're seeking.

Flushing caches is not a configuration change.  Depending upon the activity, you might can get the configuration changes via the audit log, but, you have to poll it and will likely not get what you're seeking.  The best way to look for configuration changes is to create a logging target subscribed to the 'mgmt' category, and then a subset of the event codes under that category.  You'll not want all of them for sure if you're just seeking configuration changes.

Thanks @Joseph for helping on the first point.

As of now, we have just started with CPU, Memory, reloads alerts.

We would like to track :-
1) Total number of transactions processed by an appliance in 10 min, 1 day.
2) Number of users logged in?
3) Manual Configuration changes like cache flush

What is the difference between these two?
"dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3 

"dpStatusHTTPTransactions2tenMinutes" -- (tps) .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.153.1.5

We are using Physical Appliances.

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 01:30 PM
From: Joseph Morgan
Subject: Traffic details

>  Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Yes.  To get the MIBs off of the box, log into the appliance's default domain, in the control panel, search for SNMP settings and open the configuration.  Then select the "Enterprise MIBs" tab.  There you can get the MIBs and feed them into whatever tool you are using for SNMP.

> Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

This is a complicated issue, but certainly start with memory, load and CPU.  You'll likely also want to monitor free file system and encrypted file system space. 

What are you most interested in?

For other considerations, are you using Physical or Virtual machines, because this can matter.

------------------------------
Joseph Morgan

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 02:38 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 18, 2023 02:11 AM
From: Amit Munwes
Subject: Traffic details

Consider using DPOD (DataPower Operations Dashboard) - IBM's premier tool for monitoring and management of IBM DataPower Gateways - but that requires purchasing a separate license. It has much more than what you mentioned.

A quick overview video (6 min) is available at https://ibm.biz/dpod-docs

------------------------------
Amit Munwes

Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 17, 2023 09:29 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Hi Joseph,

Please find my comments inline


What firmware version are you running?  I don't think HTTP Transactions status (original nor 2) are used anymore.   HTTP Connections status might be more useful, though is it per XML Manager and must be aggregated across all domains to get a total picture.

IDG.10.0.1.11
Do we need to configure in order to get the aggregated value or fetching the details on OID "dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3  give the consolidated count?

Connections Accepted is pretty self-explanatory, but may not represent the actual number of transactions, depending upon how one defines a "transaction".  That is, I don't consider an accepted connection as necessarily a transaction.

When you say number of users logged in, I suspect you're not talking about active DataPower users?  I suspect you are talking about the number of unique users accessing services, correct?   If, however, you are talking about active DataPower users, then the Active Users status is what you're seeking.

Looking for Number of active users on datapower.
I think this will give the details dpStatusActiveUsersname .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.1.1.2

What firmware version are you running?  I don't think HTTP Transactions status (original nor 2) are used anymore.   HTTP Connections status might be more useful, though is it per XML Manager and must be aggregated across all domains to get a total picture.

Connections Accepted is pretty self-explanatory, but may not represent the actual number of transactions, depending upon how one defines a "transaction".  That is, I don't consider an accepted connection as necessarily a transaction.

When you say number of users logged in, I suspect you're not talking about active DataPower users?  I suspect you are talking about the number of unique users accessing services, correct?   If, however, you are talking about active DataPower users, then the Active Users status is what you're seeking.

Flushing caches is not a configuration change.  Depending upon the activity, you might can get the configuration changes via the audit log, but, you have to poll it and will likely not get what you're seeking.  The best way to look for configuration changes is to create a logging target subscribed to the 'mgmt' category, and then a subset of the event codes under that category.  You'll not want all of them for sure if you're just seeking configuration changes.

Thanks @Joseph for helping on the first point.

As of now, we have just started with CPU, Memory, reloads alerts.

We would like to track :-
1) Total number of transactions processed by an appliance in 10 min, 1 day.
2) Number of users logged in?
3) Manual Configuration changes like cache flush

What is the difference between these two?
"dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3 

"dpStatusHTTPTransactions2tenMinutes" -- (tps) .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.153.1.5

We are using Physical Appliances.

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 01:30 PM
From: Joseph Morgan
Subject: Traffic details

>  Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Yes.  To get the MIBs off of the box, log into the appliance's default domain, in the control panel, search for SNMP settings and open the configuration.  Then select the "Enterprise MIBs" tab.  There you can get the MIBs and feed them into whatever tool you are using for SNMP.

> Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

This is a complicated issue, but certainly start with memory, load and CPU.  You'll likely also want to monitor free file system and encrypted file system space. 

What are you most interested in?

For other considerations, are you using Physical or Virtual machines, because this can matter.

------------------------------
Joseph Morgan

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 02:38 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 18, 2023 02:11 AM
From: Amit Munwes
Subject: Traffic details

Consider using DPOD (DataPower Operations Dashboard) - IBM's premier tool for monitoring and management of IBM DataPower Gateways - but that requires purchasing a separate license. It has much more than what you mentioned.

A quick overview video (6 min) is available at https://ibm.biz/dpod-docs

------------------------------
Amit Munwes

Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 17, 2023 09:29 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

I believe dpStatusActiveUsersname will give you currently active users.   dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedTenMinutes will give you the number of connections over 10 minutes, if that is satisfactory to you.  This is not, however, the same as number of transactions.

You shouldn't need to configure anything special other than the user and SNMP credentials for your SNMP client to obtain these.    Not knowing your client, I cannot tell you about how to configure it.

Hi Joseph,

Please find my comments inline


What firmware version are you running?  I don't think HTTP Transactions status (original nor 2) are used anymore.   HTTP Connections status might be more useful, though is it per XML Manager and must be aggregated across all domains to get a total picture.

IDG.10.0.1.11
Do we need to configure in order to get the aggregated value or fetching the details on OID "dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3  give the consolidated count?

Connections Accepted is pretty self-explanatory, but may not represent the actual number of transactions, depending upon how one defines a "transaction".  That is, I don't consider an accepted connection as necessarily a transaction.

When you say number of users logged in, I suspect you're not talking about active DataPower users?  I suspect you are talking about the number of unique users accessing services, correct?   If, however, you are talking about active DataPower users, then the Active Users status is what you're seeking.

Looking for Number of active users on datapower.
I think this will give the details dpStatusActiveUsersname .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.1.1.2

What firmware version are you running?  I don't think HTTP Transactions status (original nor 2) are used anymore.   HTTP Connections status might be more useful, though is it per XML Manager and must be aggregated across all domains to get a total picture.

Connections Accepted is pretty self-explanatory, but may not represent the actual number of transactions, depending upon how one defines a "transaction".  That is, I don't consider an accepted connection as necessarily a transaction.

When you say number of users logged in, I suspect you're not talking about active DataPower users?  I suspect you are talking about the number of unique users accessing services, correct?   If, however, you are talking about active DataPower users, then the Active Users status is what you're seeking.

Flushing caches is not a configuration change.  Depending upon the activity, you might can get the configuration changes via the audit log, but, you have to poll it and will likely not get what you're seeking.  The best way to look for configuration changes is to create a logging target subscribed to the 'mgmt' category, and then a subset of the event codes under that category.  You'll not want all of them for sure if you're just seeking configuration changes.

Thanks @Joseph for helping on the first point.

As of now, we have just started with CPU, Memory, reloads alerts.

We would like to track :-
1) Total number of transactions processed by an appliance in 10 min, 1 day.
2) Number of users logged in?
3) Manual Configuration changes like cache flush

What is the difference between these two?
"dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3 

"dpStatusHTTPTransactions2tenMinutes" -- (tps) .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.153.1.5

We are using Physical Appliances.

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 01:30 PM
From: Joseph Morgan
Subject: Traffic details

>  Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Yes.  To get the MIBs off of the box, log into the appliance's default domain, in the control panel, search for SNMP settings and open the configuration.  Then select the "Enterprise MIBs" tab.  There you can get the MIBs and feed them into whatever tool you are using for SNMP.

> Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

This is a complicated issue, but certainly start with memory, load and CPU.  You'll likely also want to monitor free file system and encrypted file system space. 

What are you most interested in?

For other considerations, are you using Physical or Virtual machines, because this can matter.

------------------------------
Joseph Morgan

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 02:38 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 18, 2023 02:11 AM
From: Amit Munwes
Subject: Traffic details

Consider using DPOD (DataPower Operations Dashboard) - IBM's premier tool for monitoring and management of IBM DataPower Gateways - but that requires purchasing a separate license. It has much more than what you mentioned.

A quick overview video (6 min) is available at https://ibm.biz/dpod-docs

------------------------------
Amit Munwes

Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 17, 2023 09:29 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Thanks for your support Joseph.

dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedTenMinutes will give you the number of connections over 10 minutes, if that is satisfactory to you.  This is not, however, the same as number of transactions.

Any Specific OID to track transaction counts ?
Although i was unable to find, if any.


You shouldn't need to configure anything special other than the user and SNMP credentials for your SNMP client to obtain these.    Not knowing your client, I cannot tell you about how to configure it.

We are aware of the Client and client is able to connect to DP and gather CPU, Memory etc details.


You can also suggest few other OID's which you think can be very useful in terms of monitoring.

I believe dpStatusActiveUsersname will give you currently active users.   dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedTenMinutes will give you the number of connections over 10 minutes, if that is satisfactory to you.  This is not, however, the same as number of transactions.

You shouldn't need to configure anything special other than the user and SNMP credentials for your SNMP client to obtain these.    Not knowing your client, I cannot tell you about how to configure it.

Hi Joseph,

Please find my comments inline


What firmware version are you running?  I don't think HTTP Transactions status (original nor 2) are used anymore.   HTTP Connections status might be more useful, though is it per XML Manager and must be aggregated across all domains to get a total picture.

IDG.10.0.1.11
Do we need to configure in order to get the aggregated value or fetching the details on OID "dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3  give the consolidated count?

Connections Accepted is pretty self-explanatory, but may not represent the actual number of transactions, depending upon how one defines a "transaction".  That is, I don't consider an accepted connection as necessarily a transaction.

When you say number of users logged in, I suspect you're not talking about active DataPower users?  I suspect you are talking about the number of unique users accessing services, correct?   If, however, you are talking about active DataPower users, then the Active Users status is what you're seeking.

Looking for Number of active users on datapower.
I think this will give the details dpStatusActiveUsersname .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.1.1.2

What firmware version are you running?  I don't think HTTP Transactions status (original nor 2) are used anymore.   HTTP Connections status might be more useful, though is it per XML Manager and must be aggregated across all domains to get a total picture.

Connections Accepted is pretty self-explanatory, but may not represent the actual number of transactions, depending upon how one defines a "transaction".  That is, I don't consider an accepted connection as necessarily a transaction.

When you say number of users logged in, I suspect you're not talking about active DataPower users?  I suspect you are talking about the number of unique users accessing services, correct?   If, however, you are talking about active DataPower users, then the Active Users status is what you're seeking.

Flushing caches is not a configuration change.  Depending upon the activity, you might can get the configuration changes via the audit log, but, you have to poll it and will likely not get what you're seeking.  The best way to look for configuration changes is to create a logging target subscribed to the 'mgmt' category, and then a subset of the event codes under that category.  You'll not want all of them for sure if you're just seeking configuration changes.

Thanks @Joseph for helping on the first point.

As of now, we have just started with CPU, Memory, reloads alerts.

We would like to track :-
1) Total number of transactions processed by an appliance in 10 min, 1 day.
2) Number of users logged in?
3) Manual Configuration changes like cache flush

What is the difference between these two?
"dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3 

"dpStatusHTTPTransactions2tenMinutes" -- (tps) .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.153.1.5

We are using Physical Appliances.

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 01:30 PM
From: Joseph Morgan
Subject: Traffic details

>  Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Yes.  To get the MIBs off of the box, log into the appliance's default domain, in the control panel, search for SNMP settings and open the configuration.  Then select the "Enterprise MIBs" tab.  There you can get the MIBs and feed them into whatever tool you are using for SNMP.

> Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

This is a complicated issue, but certainly start with memory, load and CPU.  You'll likely also want to monitor free file system and encrypted file system space. 

What are you most interested in?

For other considerations, are you using Physical or Virtual machines, because this can matter.

------------------------------
Joseph Morgan

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 02:38 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

------------------------------
Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 18, 2023 02:11 AM
From: Amit Munwes
Subject: Traffic details

Consider using DPOD (DataPower Operations Dashboard) - IBM's premier tool for monitoring and management of IBM DataPower Gateways - but that requires purchasing a separate license. It has much more than what you mentioned.

A quick overview video (6 min) is available at https://ibm.biz/dpod-docs

------------------------------
Amit Munwes

Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 17, 2023 09:29 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Sorry for the delay, I spent some time going over the MIBs.  It seems many are not-accessible, but I'm not sure that is literal, mainly because if all of the MIBs listed as not-accessible were truly that, I'm not sure why one would want to monitor DataPower via SNMP.

The dpStatusActiveUsersTable, if accessible, should provide all users logged into the DataPower appliance somewhere (WebGUI, CLI, XMLMgt, etc). 

The dpStatusConnectionsAccepted may be useful for monitoring for general traffic hits on the appliances, but these don't always result in a transaction.  However, if you're seeking baselines and want to alert when over normal baselines, this could definitely be useful.

I'm saying all this just looking at the MIB files with my eyeballs.  I'll setup a client and point it at my lab and see what I get.

Thanks for your support Joseph.

dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedTenMinutes will give you the number of connections over 10 minutes, if that is satisfactory to you.  This is not, however, the same as number of transactions.

Any Specific OID to track transaction counts ?
Although i was unable to find, if any.


You shouldn't need to configure anything special other than the user and SNMP credentials for your SNMP client to obtain these.    Not knowing your client, I cannot tell you about how to configure it.

We are aware of the Client and client is able to connect to DP and gather CPU, Memory etc details.


You can also suggest few other OID's which you think can be very useful in terms of monitoring.

I believe dpStatusActiveUsersname will give you currently active users.   dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedTenMinutes will give you the number of connections over 10 minutes, if that is satisfactory to you.  This is not, however, the same as number of transactions.

You shouldn't need to configure anything special other than the user and SNMP credentials for your SNMP client to obtain these.    Not knowing your client, I cannot tell you about how to configure it.

Hi Joseph,

Please find my comments inline


What firmware version are you running?  I don't think HTTP Transactions status (original nor 2) are used anymore.   HTTP Connections status might be more useful, though is it per XML Manager and must be aggregated across all domains to get a total picture.

IDG.10.0.1.11
Do we need to configure in order to get the aggregated value or fetching the details on OID "dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3  give the consolidated count?

Connections Accepted is pretty self-explanatory, but may not represent the actual number of transactions, depending upon how one defines a "transaction".  That is, I don't consider an accepted connection as necessarily a transaction.

When you say number of users logged in, I suspect you're not talking about active DataPower users?  I suspect you are talking about the number of unique users accessing services, correct?   If, however, you are talking about active DataPower users, then the Active Users status is what you're seeking.

Looking for Number of active users on datapower.
I think this will give the details dpStatusActiveUsersname .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.1.1.2

What firmware version are you running?  I don't think HTTP Transactions status (original nor 2) are used anymore.   HTTP Connections status might be more useful, though is it per XML Manager and must be aggregated across all domains to get a total picture.

Connections Accepted is pretty self-explanatory, but may not represent the actual number of transactions, depending upon how one defines a "transaction".  That is, I don't consider an accepted connection as necessarily a transaction.

When you say number of users logged in, I suspect you're not talking about active DataPower users?  I suspect you are talking about the number of unique users accessing services, correct?   If, however, you are talking about active DataPower users, then the Active Users status is what you're seeking.

Flushing caches is not a configuration change.  Depending upon the activity, you might can get the configuration changes via the audit log, but, you have to poll it and will likely not get what you're seeking.  The best way to look for configuration changes is to create a logging target subscribed to the 'mgmt' category, and then a subset of the event codes under that category.  You'll not want all of them for sure if you're just seeking configuration changes.

Thanks @Joseph for helping on the first point.

As of now, we have just started with CPU, Memory, reloads alerts.

We would like to track :-
1) Total number of transactions processed by an appliance in 10 min, 1 day.
2) Number of users logged in?
3) Manual Configuration changes like cache flush

What is the difference between these two?
"dpStatusConnectionsAcceptedtenMinutes"  -- .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.13.3 

"dpStatusHTTPTransactions2tenMinutes" -- (tps) .1.3.6.1.4.1.14685.3.1.153.1.5

We are using Physical Appliances.

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Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 01:30 PM
From: Joseph Morgan
Subject: Traffic details

>  Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Yes.  To get the MIBs off of the box, log into the appliance's default domain, in the control panel, search for SNMP settings and open the configuration.  Then select the "Enterprise MIBs" tab.  There you can get the MIBs and feed them into whatever tool you are using for SNMP.

> Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

This is a complicated issue, but certainly start with memory, load and CPU.  You'll likely also want to monitor free file system and encrypted file system space. 

What are you most interested in?

For other considerations, are you using Physical or Virtual machines, because this can matter.

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Joseph Morgan

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 02:38 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, we can have the use of SNMP to read the particular MIB/OID's.

Can you please help with the most tracked metrics and their MIB and OID's

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Sunil Chaurasia

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 18, 2023 02:11 AM
From: Amit Munwes
Subject: Traffic details

Consider using DPOD (DataPower Operations Dashboard) - IBM's premier tool for monitoring and management of IBM DataPower Gateways - but that requires purchasing a separate license. It has much more than what you mentioned.

A quick overview video (6 min) is available at https://ibm.biz/dpod-docs

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Amit Munwes

Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 17, 2023 09:29 AM
From: Sunil Chaurasia
Subject: Traffic details

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks 

Lots of good discussion below and I wanted to add the simplest way to see average latency for a given service is via the 'show http' in the domain with the service(s) of interest.  I get at this status provided via rest-mgmt interface using this json
{
    "statusProviders": [
        {
            "domain": "apiconnect",
            "name": "HTTPMeanTransactionTime2",
            "keys": [ "proxy" ],
            "fields": [ "tenSeconds" ]
        },
        {
            "domain": "apiconnect",
            "name": "HTTPTransactions2",
            "keys": [ "proxy" ],
            "fields": [ "tenSeconds" ]
        },
        {
            "domain": "default",
            "name": "SystemUsage2Table",
            "keys": [ "TaskID", "TaskName" ],
            "fields": [ "Load", "WorkList", "CPU", "Memory", "FileCount" ]
        }
    ]
}

Hi Community,

How can we check the average response times of transactions of all the transactions reaching the datapower appliance.
Also, details like total number of transactions, average response time, failed transactions count etc.

I tried to look these in object like Tx Throughput, transaction rate ; but couldn't fetch much details.

Thanks