SNMP

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is typically used to monitor network health, and performance and hardware, as well as to find and solve network problems. SNMP consists of two main components:

In SAN File System, each metadata server generates SNMP traps in response to certain events. SNMP traps are not issued from the operating system, hardware, or the administrative agent.

Tip: The RSA II cards can be set up to generate hardware traps as well.
You can configure which severity levels of events (informational, warning, error, or severe) should generate SNMP traps and you can define which SNMP managers in the SAN environment are to receive the traps. When an event occurs with a severity level that causes an SNMP trap, SAN File System sends the trap, and logs the event in the cluster log.
Note: SAN File System supports asynchronous monitoring through traps but does not support SNMP GETs or PUTs for active management. The SNMP Manager cannot manage SAN File System.
Not all events in SAN File System generate traps. Examples of events that might generate SNMP trap messages include:

Parent topic: Concepts

Related concepts
Service alert

Related tasks
Adding SNMP managers
Setting up SNMP traps

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