Specifications

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VENICE 2U/Element Hardware Guide
2.5 SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a standard inter-
net protocol for managing devices on IP networks. With it, you can e.g.
monitor and query the state of several VENICE devices in networks or
single parts of the hardware. VENICE 2U/Element provides a NET-
SNMP-EXTEND-MIB file and a LSI-AdapterSAS file that give you the
opportunity to query the state of the system or parts of it, using the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
To query the system, it is recommended to install a standard MIB
browser on an external monitoring device where the IP address of the
VENICE server has to be set. The system’s minimum and maximum
limits are predefined by DVS and have to be entered into the respective
fields in the MIB browser. You find all necessary information in the NET-
SNMP-EXTEND-MIB file and the LSI-AdapterSAS file that refers to the
RAID controller in the path /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ on the VENICE
server. By loading the NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB and the LSI-Adapter-
SAS files in the MIB browser, it is then possible to query the state of the
system.
The query of a special hardware component may be started by entering
an OID (object identifier) path in the MIB browser. The OID path con-
sists of two parts. The first one is the standard VENICE path to the ob-
jects in the MIB Tree and predefined as numbers:
.1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.1.3.2.3.1.4.
The second part consists of the number of characters (the first number)
as well as the decimal ASCII code of the characters (e.g. ’FAN1A0’):
(1) FAN1A0 = 6.70.65.78.49.65.48
(2) FAN2B1 = 6.70.65.78.50.66.49
The decimal ASCII descriptions of e.g. FAN1A0 and FAN2B1 are de-
tailed in the following:
(1) FAN1A0 = 6. 70. 65. 78. 49. 65. 48.
FAN1A0
Number of characters
(2) FAN2B1 = 6. 70. 65. 78. 50. 66. 49.
FAN2B1
Number of characters