Enterprise Alert offers the possibility to directly receive SNMP traps and generate alarms from them. The SNMP traps contain a number of parameters that are identified by OIDs. These OIDs are quite cryptic and not very meaningful. So-called MIB files are used to assign meaningful names to the OIDs. The following describes how you can use a script to import such MIB files to display meaningful names instead of OIDs in SNMP events. You can also use these names in alert policies.

During our deployments we come across all kinds of different organizational infrastructures. Importing users from the Active Directory is a key component to populating user information into Enterprise Alert. Enterprise Alert will only import users that are contained in security groups. However, we often see companies having users placed in distribution lists. Enterprise Alert will not import distribution lists.