A3COM-HUAWEI-ENTITY-EXT-MIB

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Organization: Hangzhou H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.

Last Updated: 2011-11-26

Category: Hardware and Environment, Vendor: H3C/HH3C

Description: Extends the standard ENTITY-MIB with H3C-specific hardware component attributes and operational states.

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What Is A3COM-HUAWEI-ENTITY-EXT-MIB?

A3COM-HUAWEI-ENTITY-EXT-MIB is an H3C enterprise MIB that extends the standard IETF ENTITY-MIB with vendor-specific attributes for physical device components, such as boards, modules, and chassis elements. Although no sample objects were provided, its stated purpose is to carry additional general hardware attributes and operational state information beyond what the base ENTITY-MIB models. Its likely monitoring role is hardware inventory and status: exposing details like extended physical entity states, serial/hardware identifiers, or component health that standard entPhysicalTable fields don't cover, supporting hardware fault and inventory monitoring. It has an explicit and direct dependency on the standard ENTITY-MIB, since it is defined purely as an extension supplementing entPhysicalTable-style data. It is deployed alongside ENTITY-MIB support on H3C routers, switches, and modular chassis systems for detailed hardware inventory polling. Engineers can download the A3COM-HUAWEI-ENTITY-EXT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • H3C routers, switches, and modular chassis systems

Monitoring Examples

No sample objects were supplied for this module, so specific object names cannot be cited with confidence; typical usage would involve cross-referencing an extended physical-entity table keyed by an index parallel to entPhysicalIndex to pull additional H3C-specific hardware attributes not present in the standard ENTITY-MIB. An NMS would join this extension data with entPhysicalDescr and entPhysicalClass from ENTITY-MIB to build a fuller hardware health/inventory picture. Without concrete object names, a precise polling scenario cannot be described honestly.

Imported Objects

From A3COM-HUAWEI-OID-MIB

h3cCommonOBJECT-IDENTITY

From ENTITY-MIB

entPhysicalDescrOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalNameOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
MacAddress
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
OIDs

RFC description

3Com Huawei vendor-private extension MIB; extends entity management for physical inventory and component status.

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