Argus-Power-System-MIB

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Organization: Alpha Technologies Ltd.

Last Updated: 2016-12-09

Category: Hardware and Environment

Description: Provides detailed monitoring of Argus Technologies power system plant equipment, alarms, and load distribution.

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What Is Argus-Power-System-MIB?

Argus-Power-System-MIB provides detailed monitoring of Argus Technologies DC power plant systems, covering the power/energy infrastructure domain used in telecom sites (central office/cell site rectifier and battery plants). Per its module description, it covers information available from the CXC RMU (Remote Monitoring Unit) controller family, addressing plant-wide alarms and load distribution across the power system. Its general data categories are power-system status and configuration: plant-level alarm conditions and load-distribution/branch-circuit data, making it fundamentally a hardware-health MIB for power infrastructure — akin to monitoring power supply health, but at the scale of an entire DC power plant (rectifiers, battery strings, distribution) rather than a single device's internal supply. It is built around the "upsDevice" object grouping tied to the CXC-series controller, indicating a dependency on that vendor's controller data model, and likely coexists with standard UPS-MIB concepts. It is deployed at telecom central offices, cell sites, or data centers using Argus Technologies CXC-series power plant controllers to remotely monitor DC power health, typically after an Argus-Power-System-MIB download to load the definitions into a network monitoring system.

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Supported Devices

  • Argus Technologies CXC-series power plant controller/RMU
  • telecom DC power plant (rectifiers, battery strings)

Monitoring Examples

No specific object or table names were present in the sampled source for this MIB, so concrete leaf objects cannot be cited; however, based on its documented scope (CXC RMU controllers, plant alarms, load distribution) an admin would expect to poll plant-wide alarm status and per-branch load-distribution figures. A load imbalance across distribution branches, or an active plant alarm, would indicate a rectifier or battery-string fault requiring site dispatch. This is inferred from the module's documented scope rather than from specific sampled object names.

What Can Be Monitored

  • plant alarm status
  • load distribution across branches
  • power plant (rectifier/battery) health
Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises
OIDs

RFC description

Argus Technologies power system detailed monitoring of plant, alarms, and load distribution.

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