Avamar: A brief overview of how the Avamar MIB hierarchy is addressed in a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) query

Summary: A hierarchy of information is seen when using the Avamar Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Information Base (MIB) file to query Avamar.

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Instructions

The following command queries the Avamar utilization value:

snmpbulkwalk -On -c public -v2c <ip-address> .1.3.6.1.4.1.15597.1.1.3.2.5
.1.3.6.1.4.1.15597.1.1.3.2.5 = INTEGER: 27 
The series of numbers can be broken into two sections:
      • The numbers in blue represent the Avamar Management Information Base (MIB)  
        .1.3.6.1.4.1.15597
      • The numbers in green see the hierarchy of 'gettable' information. 
        .1.1.3.2.5

This resolves to: Software, MCS, dpn, dpnData, utilization.

This can be seen visually by highlighting the levels of the hierarchy with a screenshot of the MIB text file (/usr/local/avamar/doc/AVAMAR-MCS-MIB.txt):

MIB file

 
Note: If the command fails to run, see Avamar: snmpwalk command failing to Avamar server

Affected Products

Avamar

Products

Avamar
Article Properties
Article Number: 000019169
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 21 Nov 2025
Version:  7
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