APEX9-MIB

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Organization: Apex9

Last Updated: 2010-10-20

Category: Device Management

Description: BigBand Networks APEX9 video gateway extended management for QAM and transport streams.

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What Is APEX9-MIB?

APEX9-MIB is a proprietary MIB from BigBand Networks for the APEX9 (LL-1000) extended video gateway platform, part of the same APEX product family used at cable/broadband headends for QAM and transport-stream processing. It exposes device identification and inventory data, including free-text device name and description fields, current date and time, and separate product and serial numbers for the IDU (Indoor Unit) and ODU (Outdoor Unit) hardware components of the system. Monitoring here is primarily hardware-inventory and identification status: sysFceBasDevIduSerNum and sysFceBasDevOduSerNum, together with their product-number counterparts, let an admin verify which physical IDU/ODU hardware units are installed and confirm they match expected part numbers, while sysFceBasDevDate and sysFceBasDevTime support confirming the device's clock is correctly synchronized. It shares BigBand Networks' enterprise OID branch and conventions with the related APEX-MIB module. It is deployed at cable/MSO video headend and outdoor RF distribution sites running BigBand APEX9 (LL-1000) gateway hardware for QAM/transport-stream processing, and the APEX9-MIB MIB defines the object identifiers used to manage this hardware.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in APEX9-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • BigBand Networks APEX9 (LL-1000) video gateway

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll sysFceBasDevIduSerNum and sysFceBasDevOduSerNum together with their corresponding product-number objects to verify the correct IDU/ODU hardware pairing is installed at a given site. Checking sysFceBasDevDate and sysFceBasDevTime confirms the device's onboard clock hasn't drifted from the expected time source, which would otherwise cause timestamp mismatches in logged events. Reviewing the sysFceBasDevAddDesc1 through AddDesc5 fields provides additional free-text inventory or location detail useful during a site audit.

What Can Be Monitored

  • IDU/ODU product and serial numbers
  • device name and description fields
  • device date and time
  • hardware inventory identification
Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
MacAddress
PhysAddress
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using statFceBasRfiRxC OID:

Select a BigBand Networks APEX9 (LL-1000) video gateway (legacy) as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type statFceBasRfiRxC into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the counter of received packets at RFI mux (PBPS). On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter64-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline, since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

MIB definition for Apex9 LL-1000 point-to-point microwave links providing system, configuration, information, and statistics functions.

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