DELL-ASF-MIB

Description: Manages Alert Standards Format (ASF) platform events and alerts for Dell server hardware.

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DELL-ASF-MIB implements the DMTF Alert Standard Format (ASF) specification's Platform Event Trap objects for Dell server hardware, providing a standardized way for out-of-band management to receive hardware alert notifications even when the operating system is down. Its sample object asfPetEvts represents the ASF Platform Event Trap events group, which per the ASF standard covers hardware alert conditions such as fan failure, temperature/thermal events, voltage faults, chassis intrusion, and power supply problems. It is used specifically to monitor low-level hardware health and fault conditions on Dell servers -- fan and power supply status, thermal thresholds, and chassis security -- making it valuable for pre-OS or OS-independent hardware monitoring via a baseboard management controller. It directly implements the DMTF Alert Standard Format specification, a vendor-neutral standard, layered with Dell-specific object naming. It is deployed on Dell PowerEdge and similar server hardware equipped with ASF-capable management controllers for out-of-band hardware alerting, and a DELL-ASF-MIB download provides the module needed to load these traps into a monitoring platform.

A management station subscribes to traps generated from the asfPetEvts group to receive Platform Event Trap notifications the moment a monitored hardware condition, such as a fan failure or over-temperature event, occurs on a Dell server. Because ASF traps can be generated independent of OS state, this lets an admin detect a power supply or thermal fault even if the server's operating system has crashed or is not yet booted. A spike in PET events of a particular type would point an admin toward a specific failing hardware subsystem (e.g., cooling versus power) for dispatch to field service.

Dell server ASF PET event monitoring for IPMI alerts, fans, temperatures, and power states.