3PAR InForm® OS 2.2.4 CLI Administrator's Manual (320-200113 Rev A, March 2009)

14.2

The 3PAR SNMP Agent

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14.2 The 3PAR SNMP Agent

The 3PAR SNMP agent runs on the InServ Storage Server and provides a management interface

to enable other software products to manage 3PAR hardware using SNMP. The 3PAR SNMP

agent responds to GET, SET, GETNEXT, and GETBULK SNMP requests and also generates

notification messages (traps) for critical events (alerts) and alert state changes (see Chapter 15,

SNMP, in the InForm OS Concepts Guide for information about requests and traps). These traps

include the same information as the alerts described in the InForm OS Messages and

Operator’s Guide.

The 3PAR SNMP agent supports SNMPv2c and SMI-v2 standards, and supports the SNMPv2-MIB

and a proprietary 3PAR MIB. Refer to Chapter 15, SNMP, in the InForm OS Concepts Guide for

detailed information about these standards and MIBs.

14.2.1 Locating the 3PAR MIB

The 3PAR MIB is located on the InForm OS Administration Tools CD and is automatically

installed with the InForm CLI, as described in Chapter 2, Installing the InForm Administration

Tools. For example, on a Windows system with the InForm CLI installed, the location of

3PAR-

MIB.mib

is as follows:

where <version> is the currently installed version of the InForm CLI (for example,

2.2.4).

14.2.2 alertNotify Traps

All alerts generated by the system as well as all alert status change events are translated into

alertNotify traps. For all alerts, use the message code provided (e.g., 1703938) to refer to

the InForm OS Messages and Operator’s Guide for instructions on how to handle the alert.

See Chapter 15, SNMP, in the InForm OS Concepts Guide for additional information about

alertNotify traps.

C:\Program Files\3par\inform\<version>\mibs\3PAR-MIB.mib

NOTE: If you receive a trap with messageCode == 1245186, this is to notify you

that an alert has changed state. In order to find out which alert has changed

state, you must extract the alert ID from the

id trap field.