SMA-NOTIFICATION-MIB

Description: Defines Sun system management notification traps for hardware faults, resource events, and system state changes.

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SMA-NOTIFICATION-MIB is a Sun Microsystems vendor-specific MIB that defines a single generic notification, statusChange, used by monitoring modules loaded on Sun's System Management Agent (SMA) to report hardware faults, resource events, and general system state changes. Rather than modeling specific hardware objects itself, it exposes a set of varbinds carried in every statusChange trap: hostName and moduleName identifying where the event occurred, statusOID/statusOIDContext identifying which managed object changed, a human-readable status level and description, and a typed dataValue/dataValueType pair carrying the actual changed value in its original SNMP type. This generic-envelope design lets any Sun hardware or software monitoring module raise a uniform, self-describing trap without needing its own dedicated notification MIB, which simplifies building a single trap receiver that can interpret status changes across many Sun subsystems. It depends on SNMPv2-MIB (snmpTraps) for its notification registration point and on IANAifType-MIB, imported but unused directly by the single object set defined here. It is deployed on Sun/Solaris systems running the System Management Agent for hardware and system health monitoring, and administrators can download the SMA-NOTIFICATION-MIB file to load it into their MIB browser.

An operator's trap receiver captures a statusChange notification and inspects the status and description varbinds; a status value of 'ERROR' accompanied by a moduleName identifying a power supply or fan module, with dataValue showing an out-of-range reading, would indicate a hardware fault requiring immediate attention on that Sun system.

System Management Agent notifications for status change events across monitored modules with context and data values.