IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter

My firsts articles will be about IBM RSA (and Blade Center).

Less than two year ago, I was asked to find a quick way to monitor our IBM Hardware infrastructure.

I first though about and integration into CA NSM, then I though about IBM director but that wasn't easy to deploy quickly.

Now, with my current knowledge, I think if I had to redo it I will use Spectrum for this as this is very easy to import MIB and to say what to do with events.

But at that time, I started building my own solution based on SNMP Capabilities of IBM RSA. This SNMP agent is able to return all Hardware errors of your IBM server.


In the MIB, I was able to found that the following oid where the status:

• For RSA: '1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.1.2.7.1.0'
• For Blade Center: '1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.2.2.7.1.0'

When you do an SNMP get on this, you'll have one of the following value:

• 0 for Critical
• 2 for Warning
• 4 for System Error
• 255 for Normal.

To have details about the cause of the status, you should look at the following SNMP table:

• For RSA: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.1.2.7.2.1.3
• For Blade Center: '1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.2.2.7.2.1.3'

Next post will be some pieces of my Perl code to show how you can do it.