Log messages sent to SNMP managers

For each system log message about an event, HCP sends the information shown in the following table to the specified SNMP managers.

InformationField in HCP-MIBData type
Severity of the eventhcpAdminLogEventSeverity

INTEGER. Possible values are:

  • 3 - Error
  • 4 - Warning
  • 5 - Notice
Date time the event occurredhcpAdminLogEventTimestampDateAndTime
Message IDhcpAdminLogEventTypeInteger32
Full message texthcpAdminLogEventMessageLongDisplayString (up to 1,024 bytes)

You can choose the severity level of the log messages to be sent. You can also choose whether or not to send messages about security events (that is, attempts to log into the System Management Console with an invalid user name) and compliance events. Compliance events happen at the namespace level, so these messages are sent to the SNMP managers only if SNMP logging is enabled at the tenant level.

NoteSystem log messages are not guaranteed to arrive at the SNMP managers to which they’re sent. This is because the SNMP protocol uses UDP for data transmission.

Some HCP startup events occur before the internal SNMP server starts. Therefore, messages about these startup events are not sent to SNMP managers.