Sun Microsystems V40z, V20Z manual Snmp Agent on the Service Processor, Proxy Agent

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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 3-1for a list of the MIBs; refer to TABLE 3-3for a detailed description of the MIBs.

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 Third-Party Consoles” on page 43.

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 platform-level management transparently through the SP. Querying MIBs other than the server MIB (for example, the Host Resource MIB) and the MIBII System MIB on the SP obtains information from the platform by proxying the request to the platform SNMP agent.

Ensure that the SP can identify the read-only and read-write community names that are configured for your platform SNMP agent. Refer to “Setting the Community Name” on page 46.

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