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Appendix C

SNMP Operation & Deﬁnition

Overview

The McRAID manager includes a ﬁrmware-embedded Simple Net-

work Management Protocol (SNMP) agent for the connect SATA

RAID controller. An SNMP-based management application (also

known as an SNMP manager) can monitor the SATA RAID control-

ler. An example of a SNMP management application is Hewlett-

Packard’s Open View. The ﬁrmware-embedded SNMP agent can be

used to augment the SATA RAID controller if you are already run-

ning SNMP management application at your site.

SNMP Deﬁnition

SNMP, an IP-based protocol, has a set of commands for getting the

status of target devices. The SNMP management platform is called

the SNMP manager, and the managed devices have the SNMP

agent loaded. Management data is organized in a hierarchical data

structure called the management Information Base (MIB). These

MIBs are deﬁned and sanctioned by various industry associa-

tions. The objective is for all vendors to create products in compli-

ance with these MIBs so that inter-vendor interoperability can be

achieved. If a vendor wishes to include additional device informa-

tion that is not speciﬁed in a standard MIB, then that is usually

done through MIB extensions.