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Standard Data Type Definitions

This appendix contains definitions for data types that are standard in most contexts across the information technology industry. These are the most common data types for describing variable values defined in the 10892.mib , dcs3rmt.mib

and dcs3fru.mib

files. Server

Administrator-specific variable values are defined in the last section of the section in which they are introduced.

Topics:

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Common Data Types

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Variables with Data Types of State Capabilities and State Capabilities Unique

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Dell Status Data Types

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Dell Date

Common Data Types

Common data types include several types of strings, the object range, signed and unsigned bit ranges, and the familiar Boolean (true or false) data type.

Table 1835. Common Data Types

Variable Name:

DellString

DellSecurityString

DellCostofOwnershipString

DellObjectRange

DellUnsigned8BitRange

DellUnsigned16BitRange

DellUnsigned32BitRange

DellSigned32BitRange

DellBoolean

Definition

DisplayString (SIZE (0..64))

DisplayString (SIZE (0..255))

DisplayString (SIZE (0..64))

INTEGER (1..128)

INTEGER (1..256)

INTEGER (1..65535)

Gauge (0..4294967295)

INTEGER (-2147483647..2147483647)

INTEGER (0..1 (FALSE = 0, TRUE = 1))

Variables with Data Types of State Capabilities and State Capabilities Unique

Variables with definitions of < variable name >StateCapabilities or < variable name >StateCapabilitiesUnique are integers representing a series of bit definitions. They are NOT enumerations and should be treated as bit fields. The value is passed as a decimal value. The decimal value should be converted to hex and the appropriate bits should be parsed from hex. Some of the more common bit combinations are defined in some variables, but not all combinations are or will be defined.

Table 1836. Dell State Capabilities

Variable Name : DellStateCapabilities

Data Type : Integer

Possible Data Values if set to zero(0) unknownCapabilities(1)

Meaning of Data Value

The object has no capabilities.

The object’s capabilities are unknown.

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enableCapable(2) notReadyCapable(4) enableAndNotReadyCapable (6)

Table 1837. Dell State Settings

Variable Name : DellStateSettings

Data Type : Integer

Possible Data Values if set to zero(0) unknown(1) enabled(2)

The object can be disabled (offline, a binary 0 value) or enabled

(online, a binary 1 value).

The object is not ready.

Enable and not ready capable.

Meaning of Data Value

The object has no settings capabilities and its state is disabled.

The object’s state is unknown.

The object’s state is disabled (offline, a binary 0 value) or enabled

(online, a binary 1 value).

The object is not ready.

The object is enabled and not ready.

notReady(4) enableAndNotReady(6)

Table 1838. Dell Probe Capabilities

Variable Name : DellProbeCapabilities

Data Type : Integer

Possible Data Values if set to zero(0) upperNonCriticalThresholdSetCapable(1) lowerNonCriticalThresholdSetCapable(2) upperNonCriticalThresholdDefaultCapable(4) lowerNonCriticalThresholdDefaultCapable(8)

Meaning of Data Value

The object has no capabilities.

The upper noncritical threshold can be set.

The lower noncritical threshold can be set.

The upper noncritical threshold can be set to default.

The lower noncritical threshold can be set to default.

Dell Status Data Types

Status data types include DellStatus, DellStatusRedundancy, and DellStatusProbe.

Table 1839. Dell Status

Variable Name : DellStatus

Data Type : Integer

Possible Data Values other(1) unknown(2) ok(3) nonCritical(4) critical(5) nonRecoverable(6)

Meaning of Data Value

The object’s status is not one of the following:

The object’s status is unknown.

The object’s status is OK.

The object’s status is warning, noncritical.

The object’s status is critical (failure).

The object’s status is nonrecoverable (dead).

Table 1840. Dell Status Redundancy

Variable Name : DellStatusRedundancy

Data Type : Integer

Possible Data Values Meaning of Data Value

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other(1) unknown(2) full(3) degraded(4) lost(5) notRedundant(6)

Table 1841. Dell Status Probe

Variable Name : DellStatusProbe

Data Type : Integer

Possible Data Values other(1) unknown(2) ok(3) nonCriticalUpper(4)

CriticalUpper(5) nonRecoverableUpper(6) nonCriticalLower(7) criticalLower(8) nonRecoverableLower(9) failed(10)

The object’s status is not one of the following:

The object’s redundancy status is unknown.

The object is fully redundant.

The object’s redundancy has been degraded.

The object’s redundancy has been lost.

Redundancy does not apply or it is not redundant.

Meaning of Data Value

The object’s status is not one of the following:

The status of the object is unknown.

The status of the object is OK.

The object is at the noncritical upper limit.

The object is at the critical upper limit.

The object is at the nonrecoverable upper limit.

The object is at the noncritical lower limit.

The object is at the critical lower limit.

The object is at the nonrecoverable lower limit.

The status of the object is failed.

Dell Date

Variable Name : DellDate

Data Type : DellUnsigned64BitRange Octet String (SIZE(8))

The DellDate definition is required because SNMP V1 does not support 64-bit ranges. The information sent back by this subagent has the most significant byte of the information as the first byte. For example, the hex address 0x1029384754657687 is sent as hex: 0001 0000

0010 1001 0011 1000 0100 0111 ... Byte 1 Byte 2 Byte 3 Byte 4.

Full Dates

Variable Name : DellDateName

Data Type : DisplayString DisplayString (SIZE (25))

Full dates are defined in the ASCII format: yyyyMMddhhmmss.uuuuuu+fff or yyyyMMddhhmmss.uuuuuu-fff where yyyy is the year, MM is the month, dd is the day, hh are the hours, mm are the minutes, and ss are the seconds. uuuuuu is the number of microseconds, and +fff or -fff is the offset from UTC in minutes. For example, Friday, October 31, 2001, at 6:05:19 PM CST would be represented as 20011031180519.000000-360.

The values are zero-padded, and if a valid value for a field is not deliverable, each character in the field is replaced with an asterisk (*) character.

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