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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories HMC/Support Element (SE)
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 22, 2019

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Need to send SNMP traps about CEC events to customer's monitiring solution

My customer would like monitor the zSeries CECs hardware with SNMP Traps, so that when any HW error is detected by the CEC/Support Element an SNMP Trap is sent to their monitoring solution.

I opened another similar request RFE ID 119355 but it was related to HMC traps. After looking the documentation provided (IBMz SNMP
Application Programming Interfaces) it seems it only talks about HMC specific events (https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03020.nsf/0/F677927852179FFC85256EAE006116D6/$file/HWMCA-MIB-2.14.1.txt), but not other HW CEC events, for instance HW component failures detected by the CEC.

Is there a way to send these events (CEC/SE HW errors) as SNMP Traps? We have not found a way to do it.

Thanks
Jordi

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 9, 2019

    There are not detailed SNMP traps for CEC hardware failures. This is intentional since the machine is designed to automatically call home for hardware, as well as microcode, problems. There are SNMP traps for hardware messages and there are specific messages for hardware problems as well as problem call homes. These should be sufficient if the goal is to know when a problem has been reported or some sort of hardware problem was detected. Unfortunately, if the goal is to get detailed hardware failure information that is not available via an SNMP trap. If the hardware message route for determining when a hardware problems occurs or a call home is made, we can provide the details of the messages you would need to key on.

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