The Previous Chapter
The previous chapter provided a detailed description of the various types of management datagrams (MADs) and included:
The definition of a MAD.
Software times the return of a MAD's response.
Basic MAD contents.
SMP MADs.
GMP MADs.
Traps.
Event subscription and event forwarding.
The Notice queue.
This Chapter
This chapter provides a detailed description of:
SM MAD formats.
SM methods.
SM attributes.
SM traps.
SMA Notice support.
The Next Chapter
The next chapter describes all of the issues related to multiple SMs in the same subnet. Specifically, it covers:
Issues related to this subject that are outside the scope of the specification.
Multi-vendor SM failover is not supported.
A subnet can have more than one SM.
How the SM issues requests (using SMPs).
An introduction to the SM states.
Standby SMs monitor the Master SM's heartbeat.
The purpose of SM Control Packets and how they are issued.
When there are multiple Master SMs.
A detailed description of the SM states.