Reference Guide

Storage Management Alert Reference 673
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 will be
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 your 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 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.