All MIBs › BW-MediaServerFault
Organization: Broadsoft, Inc
Last Updated: 2002-01-22
Category: Alarm and Event Management, Telephony and VoIP, Vendor: BroadSoft
Description: Defines fault trap notifications for BroadSoft BroadWorks media server component failures.
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What Is BW-MediaServerFault?
BW-MediaServerFault is a BroadSoft (BW prefix, BroadWorks platform) MIB defining fault trap notifications specifically for the Media Server component of the BroadWorks VoIP application suite. Rather than exposing polled data objects, it is a notification/fault-trap module intended to alert management stations when the media server (responsible for handling media resources like conferencing, IVR, or announcements in a BroadWorks deployment) encounters an error condition. Its monitoring value is squarely in software/service fault detection: it lets an NMS learn in near real time about media server failures rather than continuously polled status like CPU or memory. The available module description was minimal ('The defines the fault') and no sample objects were provided, so specific trap object names could not be confirmed. It depends on the broader BroadWorks (BW-*) enterprise MIB family for shared conventions, and is deployed in carrier-grade or enterprise BroadWorks VoIP application server clusters. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the BW-MediaServerFault file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- BroadSoft BroadWorks Media Server
Monitoring Examples
No trap or object names were available in the source data for this MIB, so a concrete example cannot be grounded in real identifiers; in practice such a module would be expected to send a trap when the BroadWorks Media Server process fails or loses connectivity, which an NMS would use to trigger alerting.
Imported Objects
From BroadworksFault
| alarmName | OBJECT-TYPE |
| alarmState | OBJECT-TYPE |
| common | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
| component | OBJECT-TYPE |
| faultFields | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
| identifier | OBJECT-TYPE |
| problemText | OBJECT-TYPE |
| recommendedActionsText | OBJECT-TYPE |
| severity | OBJECT-TYPE |
| subcomponent | OBJECT-TYPE |
| systemName | OBJECT-TYPE |
| timeStamp | OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE |
OIDs
RFC description
Broadsoft media server fault management and alarm notification definitions for system faults and events.
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