Connectivity Guide

Table 1849. 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
congured 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 congured to forward the SNMP traps to the target system or application. When forwarding to an
application, the application should also be congured to receive the SNMP traps. The IT Assistant application is already congured to
receive the SNMP traps generated by Storage Management.
See Windows operating system documentation for information on conguring the operating system to forward SNMP traps. This
information may be located under such topics as Setting up SNMP or SNMP traps . When conguring SNMP for Windows, be sure that
the SNMP traps are forwarded to the correct server. For information on conguring an application to receive SNMP traps, see the
documentation for that application.
SNMP Trap Denitions
The Storage Management information base (MIB) denes 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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