HP Insight Management Agents User Manual

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Simple Network
Management
Protocol (SNMP)

SNMP defines a set of commands that a management application uses to retrieve or change the
values of items a management agent makes available.

SNMP Multiplexing
(SMUX)

The protocol defining a mechanism for communication between SNMP agent and multiple user
daemons (called SMUX peers). The SMUX protocol has the advantage of being
vendor-independent. With SMUX, a single SNMP agent can be used to control and monitor
devices from different vendors, regardless of how each vendor has implemented SMUX peers in
their own products.

Threshold

A preset limit that produces an alarm when reached or exceeded.

Trap

An indicator of a change or an error condition. Also called alarm.

Uninterruptible
Power Supply
(UPS)

A battery that supplies continuous power to a computer system in the event of a power failure.

Windows
Management
Instrumentation
(WMI)

Windows 2000 and Windows 98 extensions to WDM which provide an interface between the
operating system and instrumented components, allowing the instrumented components to provide
information and notifications.

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