The McRAID manager includes a firmware-embedded Simple Net- work Management Protocol (SNMP) agent and SNMP Extension Agent for the SATA RAID controller. An SNMP-based management application (also known as an SNMP manager) can monitor the disk array. An example of An SNMP management application is Hewlett- Packard’s Open View. The SNMP Extension Agent can be used to augment the SATA RAID controller if you are already running an SNMP management application at your site.
SNMP Definition
SNMP, an IP-based protocol, has a set of commands for getting the status of target devices. The SNMP management platform is called the SNMP manager, and the managed devices have the SNMP agent loaded. Management data is organized in a hierarchical data structure called the management Information Base (MIB). These MIBs are defined and sanctioned by various industry associa- tions. The objective is for all vendors to create products in compli- ance with these MIBs so that inter-vendor interoperability can be achieved. If a vendor wishes to include additional device informa- tion that is not specified in a standard MIB, then that is usually done through MIB extensions.
