Specification of a MIB XML for systems management

This work presents an XML application for systems management. The main purpose is showing how to map the information from a MIB to a XML document. It introduces the system management architecture based on SNMP and XML agents. According to the MIB proposed a DTD file, containing the available information structure, is specified to represent the management information. The mapping from MIB to XML document follows some rules: identifiers are defined to mapping the management information representation; the script file is created to associate the information from the DTD file to an identifier; The collect file is created to represent the MIB with the information collected automatically from the system management; the XML file is created from the DTD file using the script (contents) and collect (information) files. A Web application is also presented to show the use of XML document as a MIB and its results.