About ILOM and SNMP

The Sun™ Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) firmware includes a preinstalled SNMP agent that supports trap delivery to a third-party SNMP management application. To use this feature, you must:

Integrating the MIBs

Use the MIBs to integrate the management and monitoring of the server into SNMP management consoles. The MIB branch is a private enterprise MIB, located at MIB object iso(1).org (3). dod (6). internet (1). private (4). enterprises (1). sun (42). products (2) .

Example

This example shows how to use SNMP with a standard third-party MIB browser.

  1. From the Manager Preferences menu, choose Load/Unload MIBS: SNMP.

  2. Locate and select the SUN-PLATFORM-MIB.mib.

    The SUN-PLATFORM-MIB is available on your Resource CD.

  3. Click Load.

  4. Specify the directory where server MIBs are placed and click Open.

  5. Repeat Steps 2 through 4 to load other MIBs.

  6. Exit the Manager Preferences menu.

  7. Open an SNMP MIB browser.

    The SNMP standard tree displays in the MIB browser.

  8. Locate the Sun branch located under private.enterprises.

    Verify that the SUN-PLATFORM_MIB is integrated.

Adding Your Server to Your SNMP Environment

Add your system as a managed node using your SNMP management application. See your SNMP management application documentation for further details.

Configuring Receipt of Traps

ILOM supports IPMI PET traps, which are legal SNMP traps. PET trap information is delivered in an encoded octet string. Standard third-party SNMP tools cannot interpret the IPMI data generated for the PET trap. You need a third-party application able to decode the octet string, such as openimpi.

Configure a trap in any ILOM service processor. See set /SP/alert/rules or set /CH/BLn/SP/alert/rules using the CLI, or Adding an Alert, using the GUI.