SNMP Reference Guide

Storage Management Alert Reference 599
See your Windows operating system documentation for information on configuring the operating system
to forward SNMP traps. This information may be located under such topics as “setting up SNMP” or
“SNMP traps.” When configuring SNMP for Windows, be sure that the SNMP traps are forwarded to
the correct server. For information on configuring an application to receive SNMP traps, see the
documentation for that application.
SNMP Trap Definitions
The Storage Management management information base (MIB) defines the SNMP traps that Storage
Management generates. These traps correspond to the alerts documented in the “Alert Descriptions and
Corrective Actions" section. The MIB is located in ..\sm\mibs\dcstorag.mib, a subdirectory of the Storage
Management installation directory.
NOTE: Storage Management supports trap forwarding on both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
SNMP Trap Variables
The Storage Management SNMP traps use a set of variables that are included with every trap.
These variables are the following:
• messageIDEvent
• descriptionEvent
• locationEvent
• objectNameEvent
• objectOIDEvent
• objectNexusEvent
• currentStatusEvent
• previousStatusEvent
Viewing SNMP Traps
SNMP traps that are generated by Storage Management can be viewed in any standard SNMP-compatible
enterprise management console. These traps are defined in the Storage Management MIB. These traps
correspond to the alerts documented in the “Alert Descriptions and Corrective Actions” section.
For more information on the MIB and its structure, as well as a change history of the SNMP traps, see
the "Introduction" section. For more information on configuring SNMP, see "SNMP Support for Storage
Management Alerts."