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Category: Network Management and SNMP Infrastructure, UPS and Power Management
Description: Defines trap forwarding configuration for Sun Management Center, managing SNMP trap routing and destination settings.
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What Is TRAPFORWARD-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB?
This MIB module belongs to Sun Microsystems' Sun Management Center (SunMC) monitoring platform and defines the SNMP objects used to configure trap forwarding — how alerts generated inside SunMC are relayed onward to other SNMP trap receivers or NMS platforms. Rather than exposing raw hardware sensors, it deals with configuration data such as destination trap-receiver addresses, ports, community strings, and forwarding rules that determine which underlying SunMC alarms get relayed. Because it governs the propagation of fault and alarm notifications, it plays an important supporting role in monitoring overall system health: hardware and software problems detected by SunMC agents (e.g., disk, CPU, temperature, or service alarms) only reach an upstream monitoring console if this trap-forwarding configuration is correctly set up and enabled. It depends on the wider Sun Management Center agent/base MIB framework for the actual alarm and status data it forwards, and on standard SNMP trap mechanisms for delivery. It is typically deployed on Sun/Oracle Solaris servers and SPARC hardware running the SunMC agent, in data centers that funnel Solaris server health events into a centralized NMS. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the TRAPFORWARD-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Sun/Oracle Solaris server running Sun Management Center (SunMC) agent
Monitoring Examples
The module's forwarding objects govern how SunMC relays its own internally generated alarms (covering conditions like disk, memory, or service failures reported by the SunMC "sunsymon" agent module) to external trap destinations; an administrator would configure and poll the forwarding-destination and enable/disable objects to confirm that critical Solaris server alarms are actually reaching the central NMS. Because the supplied sample fields ("sun", "prod", "sunsymon", "agent", "base") are directory/module-name fragments rather than object identifiers, no specific object names can be cited with confidence beyond this general forwarding-configuration role.
What Can Be Monitored
- trap-forwarding destination address
- trap-forwarding enable/disable state
- community string used for forwarded traps
- which SunMC alarm categories are relayed
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
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OIDs
RFC description
Maps SNMP traps and agent information for Sun Management Center systems.
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