Event Subscription and Event Forwarding

What Is Event Forwarding?

A device can subscribe to a particular manager to have it forward event notices received via traps from:

  • a specific port on a CA or router, or from the management port on a switch.

  • or from a collection of CAs, routers, or switches that reside within a specified LID address range.

Subscription Availability

Mandatory for the SA

Although SM-related traps are sent to the SM when an SM-related event is detected by a device's SMA, a subscription service is not available directly from the Master SM. It is, however, available from the SA (the SA's subscriber support is mandatory).

Optional for GSMs

It is optional whether or not the GSMs provide a subscription service. This ability is verified ...

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