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The rapid growth of networks has made it impractical to directly manage networks from a single network management station (NMS). This brought about a need for a model that both automated and distributed event management. The goal was to allow devices to monitor themselves and other devices, and to take action under certain conditions.
The Event MIB (RFC 2981) defines a method for creating trigger conditions, testing those conditions, and determining which action to take when a trigger meets those conditions.
The Event MIB allows you to define test conditions for object integers that are accessible in the agent, making it possible to monitor any aspect of a device without defining specific notifications and complicating the agent definition. In this model, because devices have the ability to monitor themselves or other devices, the processing is distributed throughout the network. Also, sending the information only to the NMS that uses an event model reduces both network overhead and processing drain on the NMS.
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