CADANT-LICENSE-MIB

Description: Manages software feature licenses and entitlements on ARRIS/Cadant CMTS platforms.

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CADANT-LICENSE-MIB is an ARRIS enterprise MIB for the E6000 CMTS platform that manages software feature licensing and entitlement tracking on the chassis. It exposes a per-license table with license keys, the channel counts and spare channel counts each license grants, and row-status for provisioning, alongside a separate status table reporting license type, chassis license usage, and requested-versus-used license counts. This is fundamentally a software/licensing status MIB, it lets an operator confirm whether the CMTS has sufficient licensed capacity for the channels it is trying to bring into service and catch cases where licenses are exhausted or misapplied. It is a Cadant/ARRIS-proprietary extension with no apparent dependency on a standard licensing MIB. It is deployed on ARRIS/Cadant (E6000) CMTS chassis in cable operator headends. Engineers can download the CADANT-LICENSE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

An operator would compare cadChassisLicensesUsed against cadChassisLicensesRequested in cadChassisLicenseStatusTable to see if the chassis is short on licensed capacity before activating more upstream/downstream channels. Reviewing cadLicenseChannelCount and cadLicenseSpareChannelCount per entry in cadChassisLicenseTable shows how much headroom each individual license key provides. A cadChassisLicenseStatusType showing an invalid or expired state alongside a high cadChassisLicensesRequested value would explain why new channels fail to come into service.

Tracks and manages software license types and channel counts for ARRIS cable equipment.