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Organization: Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2013-08-16
Category: Hardware and Environment
Description: Provides management objects for BCSI/Bel Fuse industrial Ethernet switch configuration and port status.
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What Is BCSI-MIB?
BCSI-MIB's own module DESCRIPTION text identifies it as 'the root MIB module for Blue Coat Systems' (BCSI = Blue Coat Systems, Inc.), a vendor known for web security/proxy appliances — this differs from the existing short description's characterization of it as a Bel Fuse industrial Ethernet switch MIB, and the source module text should be treated as more authoritative for this instance. As a 'root' module it primarily establishes the private enterprise OID branch under which Blue Coat's actual product MIBs are registered, rather than containing extensive runtime data objects itself. Little can be said about specific hardware/software status objects since no sample objects are provided in this data; any concrete monitoring capability (uptime, proxy service status, hardware health) would reside in Blue Coat's subordinate product MIBs anchored under this root rather than in this module directly. By definition it is a parent/dependency for Blue Coat's other private MIB modules that extend this root OID tree. It's deployed conceptually wherever Blue Coat Systems proxy/security appliances are managed via SNMP, functioning purely as the anchor point for the vendor's private MIB tree. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the BCSI-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Blue Coat Systems appliance (per the module's own DESCRIPTION text) — note the existing short description's 'Bel Fuse industrial switch' framing does not match this source text
Monitoring Examples
No sample object or table names are available for this module (sample_objects is empty), and its own description identifies it only as Blue Coat Systems' root MIB module, so this is best understood as an OID-registration anchor rather than a module with pollable runtime data — a genuine monitoring scenario cannot be honestly constructed from the data provided.
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| enterprises |
OIDs
RFC description
Root MIB module providing the enterprise OID structure and base definitions for Blue Coat Systems network security appliances.
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