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Cisco Customer Voice Portal (CVP) Release 3.1(0) Configuration and Administration Guide
Chapter 7      Alarm Handling and Logging
Overview: The Standalone Distributed Diagnostics and Services Network (SDDSN)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the Management 
Information Base (MIB) 
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the language for communication between a 
managing system running a network management application (such as HP Open View) and a managed 
system running an agent (which for Customer Voice Portal would be SDDSN). Between them they share 
the concept of a Management Information Base (MIB) that defines the information that the agent can 
make available to the manager. 
MIBs and an agent are commonly provided in networked systems to allow remote observation and 
control using management applications on other systems.
The CVP Voice Browser and Application Server generate messages that are sent to SDDSN. SDDSN 
then generates the SNMP traps that are presented to the managing system. 
MIB File
The Management Information Base (MIB) defines all the information about a managed system that a 
manager can view or modify. The MIB is located on the managed system and can consist of standard and 
proprietary portions. The agent and manager each have their own view of the MIB:
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The agent presents the contents of the MIB and knows how to retrieve that information. 
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The manager might use a MIB description to know what to expect in a given MIB and might store 
that information in a translation that it prefers. 
The Isnlarms.mib file is provided for third party software interpretation of the SNMP traps. The 
Isnlarms.mib file is a text file in standard MIB format and is installed on the Voice Browser and 
Application Server target machine in the directory <destination location>\bin. (For example, 
C:\Cisco\ISN\bin.)
The Customer Voice Portal MIB specifies a number of alarms. Each alarm must include the six variables 
shown in 
:
Table 7-1
Customer Voice Portal MIB Variables 
Variable
Description
Valid Setting
Originating Node
The name of the node (computer) 
within the Customer Voice Portal 
that originated this alarm.
String with maximum size of 32 
characters
Node Type
The type of Customer Voice Portal 
node that originated this alarm.
0 - unknown
1 - Voice Browser
2 - Application Server
Originating Process 
The name of the process that 
originated this alarm.
String with maximum size of 32 
characters