Smarts: SMARTS-MIB.my what is it used for?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

The SMARTS-MIB.my file defines the EMC Smarts private MIB and can be located in the BASEDIR/smarts/conf/notifier directory in both the IP Management Suite installation area and the Service Assurance Management Suite installation directories.

This file contains definitions of the two IP-version-independent MIB objects, which are named smSnmpTrapInetAddressType and smSnmpTrapInetAddress, as well as definitions of other supporting MIB objects amongst others.

The SMARTS-MIB.my file also contains logic pertaining to the Smarts SNMP Trap Notifier Adapter. The main purpose of the SNMP Trap Notifier Adapter is to accommodate third-party management systems that do not have the software to read EMC Smarts notifications but do have the software to read SNMP traps. The adapter uses the trap message format that is specified in the SNMP Trap Notifier MIB to convert EMC Smarts notifications to traps. The SNMP Trap Notifier MIB is part of the EMC Smarts private MIB, which is defined in the SMARTS-MIB.my file shown below:

 

The BASEDIR/smarts/conf/notifier directory appears in both the IP Management Suite installation area and the Service Assurance Management Suite installation area. More information can found in the Smarts IP Management Deployment Guide