Areca ARC-1110 User Manual

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The McRAID manager includes a firmware-embedded Simple Net-

work Management Protocol (SNMP) agent and SNMP Extension 

Agent for the SATA RAID controller. An SNMP-based management 

application (also known as an SNMP manager) can monitor the disk 

array. An example of An SNMP management application is Hewlett-

Packard’s Open View. The SNMP Extension Agent can be used to 

augment the SATA RAID controller if you are already running an 

SNMP management application at your site.

SNMP, an IP-based protocol, has a set of commands for getting the 

status of target devices. The SNMP management platform is called 

the SNMP manager, and the managed devices have the SNMP 

agent loaded. Management data is organized in a hierarchical data 

structure called the management Information Base (MIB). These 

MIBs are defined and sanctioned by various industry associa-

tions. The objective is for all vendors to create products in compli-

ance with these MIBs so that inter-vendor interoperability can be 

achieved. If a vendor wishes to include additional device informa-

tion that is not specified in a standard MIB, then that is usually 

done through MIB extensions.