
SNMP Agent on the Service Processor
The SNMP agent running on the SP facilitates the management and monitoring of the server. The SNMP agent can be used to query various types of SP information. Refer to FIGURE
There is no configuration required to use this functionality other than integrating the server MIBs with your desired management station.
Refer to the procedure for using the SNMP agent on the SP, as explained in “Integrating MIBs with
Note – The SNMP agent on these servers supports SNMP v1/v2c. For security reasons, there are no settable attributes in this agent.
Proxy Agent
The SP acts as an SNMP proxy agent intermediary for the platform. Queries made from a management station to the SNMP agent on the SP are intercepted by the proxy agent on the SP and forwarded to the platform; the SP proxy agent contacts the platform to retrieve the requested information. The proxy agent then receives the data from the platform and sends the request back to the management station. The management station never knows that the request was proxied. The SP and the platform communicate over an internal private network.
To enable this facility, you must first run an SNMP agent on your platform operating system (see your operating system vendor to obtain this agent). This enables
Ensure that the SP can identify the
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