SNMP Reference Guide

Local Response Agent Group 399
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Local Response Agent Group
The Local Response Agent Group provides information about various
attributes of your system’s local response agent (LRA). The LRA allows
systems managers to predetermine how a system running the server
administrator will respond to a particular event type, such as the loss of
redundancy in a specific component or the elevation of temperature in a
chassis. Systems managers can configure the LRA to respond to an event type
with a specific action. When the condition of the critical component worsens,
the systems manager can escalate the response to make it more obvious to the
operator.
For example, when a voltage probe on a monitored machine reaches a
warning condition, the systems manager may want to notify the operator by
causing the machine to beep. When the voltage probe reaches failure, the
systems manager might want to have the system that has a failing component
send a broadcast message to the management system and power off the
troubled system.
LRA Group Tables
The following management information base (MIB) tables define
LRA variable attributes:
• LRA Global Settings Table
• LRA Action Table
LRA Global Settings
The global settings table allows the systems manager to determine what
LRA capabilities exist for a specific system that is running Server Administrator.
Some machines may support all or some of the capabilities described in
DellLocalResponseAgentCapabilitiesUnique. The LRA Global Settings Table
also defines thermal shutdown capabilities and settings. In the event that a
temperature probe determines the temperature is at or over the failure limit,
the systems manager can set an action to be taken automatically.