When the remote error reporting application receives an entry from the error log, it translates the entry into a DMI indication. An error log entry contains multiple fields of information that describe the error being logged. The remote error reporting application translates several of the fields into DMI attributes. The attributes match the remote error-reporting System Management Information Format (MIF) the system installed in the DMI MIF database.
The DMI indication sends only a portion of the error log entry. The indication contains a total of 17 attributes from three error groups. The IBM Event Indication group contains general attributes that identify the error. The FFST Error and OS/2 Software groups contain fields that provide specific information. For more detail of these error groups, view the remote error-reporting MIF (REMOTERR.MIF).
Because the lengths of some attributes can be as long as 508 bytes. The indication, once converted into an SNMP trap, could exceed the maximum length of 4096 bytes. Normally indications do not exceed the maximum size.
The system sends DMI indications for Only error records with severity of the following levels: critical error, major error, and minor error.
For additional information that is related to remote error reporting, refer to SystemView Agent User's Guide and the SystemView Agent Programmer's Guide.