BLUECOAT-LICENSE-MIB

Description: Monitors software license status, expiration, and feature enablement on Blue Coat SG proxy appliances.

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BLUECOAT-LICENSE-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB from Blue Coat Systems (now part of Broadcom/Symantec) for its SG series secure web proxy appliances, focused entirely on software licensing state. It exposes a table of licensed applications, features, and components along with their expiration type, expiration date, and current license state. Its primary monitoring value is software status: detecting licenses that are expired, about to expire, or in a degraded state, which directly affects which proxy features (e.g., content filtering, malware scanning) remain functional. It has no apparent dependency on other MIBs beyond standard SNMPv2 conventions and stands as a self-contained management module. It is deployed on Blue Coat SG proxy appliances in enterprise network security and web-filtering environments. Engineers can download the BLUECOAT-LICENSE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

An administrator would poll appLicenseStatusTable/appLicenseStatusEntry rows keyed by appLicenseStatusIndex to read appLicenseStatusFeatureName, appLicenseStatusExpireDate, and appLicenseStatusLicenseState for each licensed component. A license state transitioning away from a valid/active value or an appLicenseStatusExpireDate approaching the current date would trigger a renewal alert before a security feature like malware scanning silently stops functioning. The appLicenseMIBNotifications group can also be used to receive proactive trap alerts on license state changes.

Blue Coat appliance license status MIB for monitoring license state and expiration information.