ALPHA-NOTIFICATION-MIB

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Organization: Alpha Technologies Ltd.

Last Updated: 2015-07-28

Category: Alarm and Event Management, Hardware and Environment

Description: Alpha Technologies notification MIB defining trap OIDs for power system alarms, events, and status changes.

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What Is ALPHA-NOTIFICATION-MIB?

ALPHA-NOTIFICATION-MIB is a vendor MIB from Alpha Technologies defining the SNMP trap/notification OIDs used by its power system controllers, such as UPS and DC power plant products used in telecom sites. It exposes no polled data objects itself - its entire content is a set of notification (trap) definitions covering power system alarms, events, and status changes. Because it's purely a notification-defining module, its role in monitoring is asynchronous: it signals hardware fault conditions (e.g., power supply/rectifier alarms, battery events) as they occur rather than exposing polled counters for uptime, temperature, or CPU. It presumably works alongside a companion Alpha Technologies status/data MIB that defines the underlying objects referenced by these traps. It's typically deployed in telecom central office or cell site power plants and battery/rectifier systems managed by system controllers. Engineers can download the ALPHA-NOTIFICATION-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

Alpha Technologies power system controllers (UPS/DC power plants)

Monitoring Examples

This is a notification-only module with no polled runtime data objects in the sample; it defines trap OIDs that a controller emits, such as alarms tied to power system state changes, rather than pollable status values. An NMS would configure trap reception for these OIDs so that when the Alpha system controller detects an alarm condition (e.g., a power failure or threshold breach), it immediately notifies the management station rather than the admin having to poll for the fault.

What Can Be Monitored

power system alarm notifications
power event notifications
status change notifications

Imported Objects

From ALARM-MIB

alarmActiveModelPointer	OBJECT-TYPE
alarmActiveResourceId	OBJECT-TYPE
alarmModelDescription	OBJECT-TYPE

From ALPHA-RESOURCE-MIB

alpha	MODULE-IDENTITY
componentListReference	OBJECT-TYPE
componentListStaticName	OBJECT-TYPE
controllerInfoName	OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
alphaAlarmNotifications	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.100			This MIB defines the notification block(s) available in system controllers.
NTF alphaAlarmActiveState	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.100.1			SNMPv2 notification varbinds start with SysUptime and Notification Oid as the first two in the list by default. The first varbind in this definition would be the third varbind in the raw output of the notification. An instance of the alarm indicated by alarmActiveModelPointer has been raised against the entity indicated by alarmActiveResourceId. The state of the alarm is indicated by the alarmModelState. The description of the alarm along with its source is indicated by the alarmModelDescription and componentListStaticName respectively. componentListSnmpId provides the Id set to the source of the alarm. The agent must throttle the generation of consecutive alarmActiveState traps so that there is at least a two-second gap between traps of this type against the same alarmActiveModelPointer and alarmActiveResourceId. When traps are throttled, they are queued for sending at a future time. A management application should periodically check the value of alarmActiveLastChanged to detect any missed alarmActiveState notification-events, e.g., due to throttling or transmission loss.
NTF alphaAlarmClearState	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.100.2			SNMPv2 notification varbinds start with SysUptime and Notification Oid as the first two in the list by default. The first varbind in this definition would be the third varbind in the raw output of the notification. An instance of the alarm indicated by alarmActiveModelPointer has been cleared against the entity indicated by alarmActiveResourceId. The state of the alarm is indicated by the alarmModelState. The description of the alarm along with its source is indicated by the alarmModelDescription and componentListStaticName respectively. componentListSnmpId provides the Id set to the source of the alarm. The agent must throttle the generation of consecutive alarmActiveClear traps so that there is at least a two-second gap between traps of this type against the same alarmActiveModelPointer and alarmActiveResourceId. When traps are throttled, they are queued for sending at a future time. A management application should periodically check the value of alarmActiveLastChanged to detect any missed alarmClearState notification-events, e.g., due to throttling or transmission loss.
alphaAlarmNotificationConformance	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.100.102
alphaAlarmNotificationCompliances	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.100.102.1
alphaAlarmNotificationCompliance	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.100.102.1.1			The compliance statement for systems supporting the alpha MIB.
alphaAlarmNotificationGroups	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.100.102.1.2
alphaParameterGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.100.102.1.2.1			Active alpha list group.
alphaNotificationsGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.100.102.1.2.2			The collection of notifications that can be used to model alarms for faults lacking pre-existing notification definitions.
alphaAlarmNotificationsExtension	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.101
I32 alarmSeverity	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.101.1	Integer32	read-only	User defined value used for filtering purposes.
OCT alarmCustomDescription	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.101.2	OCTET STRING	read-only	User defined value used for filtering purposes.
OCT alarmPriority	1.3.6.1.4.1.7309.101.3	OCTET STRING	read-only	User defined value used for filtering purposes.

RFC description

Defines SNMP notification blocks and alarm reporting for Alpha Technologies system controllers.

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What Is ALPHA-NOTIFICATION-MIB?

Supported Devices

Monitoring Examples

What Can Be Monitored

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