SNMP Reference Guide

18 Introduction
Introduction to the SNMP Reference Guide
This reference guide provides a formatted version of the following
Management Information Base that are released with the current version of
Dell OpenManage.
Sections in this guide follow MIB groups and provide explanations and
definitions for the terms used to define MIB objects. Content in this reference
guide is organized as documented in the following subsections.
General Content
Table 1-1 describes the sections that provide general information about the
MIBs documented in this guide.
Server Administrator Instrumentation MIB
The Server Administrator Instrumentation MIB (filename 10892.mib) provides
instrumentation data that allows you to monitor the health of a system with
SNMP management applications. It provides:
• Information about the status of temperatures, power supplies, voltages,
currents, fans, and memory at key points in the system
• Rapid access to detailed fault and performance information gathered by
industry standard systems management agents
• Version information for Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), firmware,
and operating system
Table 1-1. General Content Sections in This Guide
Section Topics MIB Group
Number
1 Introduction to SNMP basics and to the MIBs that
support Server Administrator services
NA
26 Traps — describes in-band traps defined in the Server
Administrator Instrumentation MIB and out-of-band
traps sent by the Remote Access Controller (RAC)
and Baseboard Management Controller (BMC).
5000
Appendix A Standard Data Type Definitions — defines standard
data types used in this reference guide.
NA
Appendix B SNMP Sample Output — provides a sample SNMP
output.
NA
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