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Category: Hardware and Environment, Vendor: Dell
Description: Manages Dell Local Response Agent alerts, thresholds, and automated response actions for servers.
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What Is DELLLOCALRESPONSEAGENTMIF-MIB?
DELLLOCALRESPONSEAGENTMIF-MIB is a Dell enterprise MIB for the Dell Local Response Agent, a server-management agent that lets IT staff define alert thresholds and automated response actions on Dell servers -- for example, triggering a script, shutdown, or notification when a monitored condition crosses a threshold. It exposes tables identifying component manufacturer, product, version, and serial number (a1Manufacturer, a1Product, a1Version, a1SerialNumber) alongside action-response tables (tActionResponseTable, eActionResponseTable, a2Actionname) that define what automated action to take for a given alert condition. This is fundamentally a hardware/software status and automated-remediation MIB: it lets administrators verify component identity/inventory including firmware version and serial number, and configure or audit which automated responses are wired up to specific alert conditions such as hardware fault thresholds being exceeded. It is a Dell-specific enterprise MIB and would typically work alongside Dell's broader server instrumentation (e.g., OpenManage/storage management MIBs) which generate the underlying sensor alerts this agent responds to. It is deployed on Dell server hardware in data centers where administrators want automated, policy-driven responses to hardware/environmental alert conditions without manual intervention. Engineers can download the DELLLOCALRESPONSEAGENTMIF-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Dell PowerEdge servers
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would poll a1Manufacturer, a1Product, a1Version, and a1SerialNumber to confirm the identity and firmware version of a monitored component, then inspect tActionResponseTable/eActionResponseTable entries, keyed by tComponentid/eComponentid, to see what automated action, named via a2Actionname, is configured to fire for that component's alert conditions. If an expected action entry is missing or misconfigured for a critical component, an alert condition such as a fan or power fault could go unaddressed without a defined response. a1Verify and a1Installation would be checked to confirm the response agent's own configuration was properly installed and validated.
What Can Be Monitored
- component manufacturer/product/version/serial identity
- configured automated response actions per alert
- component installation/verification status
Imported Objects
OIDs
RFC description
Vendor-private MIB for Dell Local Response Agent; manages local monitoring and response agent functionality on Dell systems.
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