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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:52:04 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: Dell Openmanage IT Assistant and SNMP Messages
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:41:29 -0700 Patrick Haverty
<patrick.haverty@onstor.com> wrote:

> I disabled the IPMI over LAN function of the system (which would not
> work in "teamed" or aggregated port configuration) and then verified
> that hardware event messages were still being sent from the PowerEdge
> server and received by IT assistant running on a remote computer.
> SNMP_Message1.JPG shows the alert as it is received (bold highlighting)
> and SNMP_Message2.JPG just shows the complete set of messages (upper
> six) that come through when an AC cord is unplugged and then re-plugged.
> Note that the IP address 10.11.1.220 is the one setup in the BMC BIOS

What's a 'BMC'?

> settings (mostly for IPMI use), so there is not any response to an SNMP
> query.  I think that means that if there is not any active monitoring
> when the event messages are sent, then they are lost.  I was unable to
> figure out how to get the BMC to send the alert to a destination that
> the Nexenta/OpenSolaris system noticed.  There may be an OpenSolaris
> service which could receive an SNMP alert, but when I tried setting
> up the appliances IP address as the destination address for alerts,
> I could not see any reflection in the /var/adm/messages file or NMS log
> file that would indicate the system saw the SNMP alert.
