Purpose of the SA
The SA is the subnet database built by the Master SM. As such, it contains records consisting of:
The attributes that are read and managed by the Master SM. Table 29-1 on page 810 lists the SM attributes.
Information delivered to the Master SM in SubnTrap(Notice) SMPs regarding events detected by devices within the subnet.
Some SA database items recorded by administrative software updating the subnet configuration data. Some of these items may have been entered by a customer (e.g., partition records recording customer's partitioning configuration input).
The SA may be accessed by other SMs (i.e., Standby SMs) to update their own SA databases. In addition, other management software may issue database queries to the SA, or may add, ...
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