PET-EVENTS

Description: Defines IPMI Platform Event Trap (PET) event type codes and event data fields for server hardware alert notifications.

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PET-EVENTS is a MIB that models IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) Platform Event Trap (PET) definitions, translating standard IPMI sensor/event codes into SNMP trap/OID form for server hardware alerting. It exposes event-type codes and event-data fields corresponding to IPMI sensor categories - the module description's example ("Under-Temperature Warning, Lower non-critical, going low") shows it covers environmental threshold events such as temperature going out of range. This MIB is squarely about hardware fault/status monitoring: it is the vehicle by which out-of-band server management (a BMC running IPMI) alerts an SNMP-based NMS about hardware problems such as over/under-temperature, fan failure, voltage out of range, chassis intrusion, or power-supply faults. It is fundamentally tied to the IPMI specification and is typically used alongside vendor server-hardware MIBs or an IPMI-to-SNMP trap-translation gateway. It is deployed in data centers on server hardware equipped with a BMC supporting IPMI PET traps, forwarded to SNMP management stations. Engineers can download the PET-EVENTS file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

The petEvts object tree defines the IPMI event-type codes and data fields carried in a Platform Event Trap; the module description's example of "Under-Temperature Warning (Lower non-critical, going low)" illustrates the kind of coded sensor event this MIB represents. An admin receiving a PET trap decoded via this MIB sees which sensor category (temperature, voltage, fan, power supply) crossed a threshold and at what severity (non-critical, critical, non-recoverable), enabling rapid triage of a failing server component such as an overheating CPU or a degraded power supply. Since this is fundamentally an event-code/trap definition module rather than a polling MIB, its main use is trap interpretation rather than active SNMP GET polling of live counters.

Vendor-private MIB for Intel vPro platform PET (Platform Event Trap) events, manages alerts and traps generated by Intel vPro manageability features.