OSA-Express SNMP subagent support

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS LPAR mode z/VM guest

The OSA-Express Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subagent (osasnmpd) supports management information bases (MIBs) for the OSA-Express features.

This subagent capability through the OSA-Express features is also called Direct SNMP to distinguish it from another method of accessing OSA SNMP data through OSA/SF, a package for monitoring and managing OSA features that does not run on Linux®.

See osasnmpd – Start OSA-Express SNMP subagent for information about the osasnmpd command itself.

To use the osasnmpd subagent, you need:
  • An OSA-Express feature that runs in QDIO mode with the latest textual MIB file for the appropriate LIC level (recommended)
  • The qeth device driver for OSA-Express (QDIO)
  • The osasnmpd subagent from s390-tools
  • net-snmp package 5.1.x or higher