Chapter 29. SM Methods and Attributes

The Previous Chapter

The previous chapter provided a detailed description of the various types of management datagrams (MADs) and included:

  • The definition of a MAD.

  • Software times the return of a MAD's response.

  • Basic MAD contents.

  • SMP MADs.

  • GMP MADs.

  • Traps.

  • Event subscription and event forwarding.

  • The Notice queue.

This Chapter

This chapter provides a detailed description of:

  • SM MAD formats.

  • SM methods.

  • SM attributes.

  • SM traps.

  • SMA Notice support.

The Next Chapter

The next chapter describes all of the issues related to multiple SMs in the same subnet. Specifically, it covers:

  • Issues related to this subject that are outside the scope of the specification.

  • Multi-vendor SM failover is not supported.

  • A subnet can have more ...

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