SNMP Reference Guide

Table 1956. Storage Management Alert Severity
Alert Severity Component Status
OK/Normal/Informational No action is required. The alert is provided for informational purposes and does
not indicate an error condition. For example, the alert may indicate the normal
start or stop of an operation.
Warning/Non-critical A component requires attention. This alert indicates a potential problem, but does
not necessarily mean that the system has currently lost data or is nonfunctional.
For example, a Warning/Non-critical alert may indicate that a component (such as
a temperature probe in an enclosure) has crossed a warning threshold.
Critical/Failure/Error A component has either failed or failure is imminent. This alert indicates a serious
problem such as data loss or a loss of function. For example, a Critical/Failure/
Error alert may indicate that an array disk has failed.
SNMP Support for Storage Management Alerts
By default, Storage Management installs SNMP trap forwarding support. For this support to function, you should have
SNMP installed on the managed system prior to installing Storage Management.
NOTE: For more information on installation requirements and SNMP, see the Server Administrator documentation.
SNMP Trap Forwarding
The Storage Management alerts are displayed in the Server Administrator alert log and are forwarded to the Windows
application alert log. If you have SNMP installed on the managed system (and the SNMP service is running), the Storage
Management alerts in the Windows application alert log are forwarded as SNMP traps. In order for these traps to be
viewable, however, a target system or application must be configured to receive these traps. SNMP traps that are
generated by Storage Management can be viewed in any standard SNMP-compatible enterprise management console.
The Windows SNMP service must be configured to forward the SNMP traps to the target system or application. When
forwarding to an application, the application should also be configured to receive the SNMP traps. The IT Assistant
application is already configured to receive the SNMP traps generated by Storage Management.
See 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 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.
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