CHASSIS-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Category: Device Management, Hardware and Environment

Description: Manages generic network device chassis hardware including slots, modules, power supplies, and fan assemblies.

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What Is CHASSIS-MIB?

CHASSIS-MIB is a vendor-neutral, hardware-inventory style MIB module used to represent a network device's physical chassis, covering constructs such as slot occupancy, plug-in modules, power supplies, and fan assemblies. It exposes general categories of data around chassis composition and environmental subsystems rather than protocol or traffic statistics. Its central purpose is hardware health monitoring: administrators use it to check whether power supplies and fans are present and functioning, whether expansion modules are seated and recognized, and overall chassis integrity, which are leading indicators of impending hardware failure. Because it deals only with physical chassis structure, it is commonly used alongside the standard ENTITY-MIB and vendor-specific environmental MIBs that supply the numeric sensor readings. It is typically deployed on modular, multi-slot chassis-based network equipment such as core switches, routers, and telecom platforms where slot and power redundancy must be tracked. Engineers writing polling scripts for this module often start from a published CHASSIS-MIB OID list to map each slot, module, and power/fan object to its exact registration point in the tree.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CHASSIS-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • modular/chassis-based network switches and routers
  • vendor-neutral MIB not tied to one manufacturer

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll the chassis's slot and module table entries to confirm every physical module bay is populated with the expected card and to detect an unplugged or failed line card. Power-supply and fan status objects would be checked on a polling interval to catch a failed PSU or stalled fan before it causes overheating. Because CHASSIS-MIB was supplied with no sample object list, this description generalizes from its stated purpose rather than citing exact object names.

What Can Be Monitored

  • slot/module presence and status
  • power supply operational status
  • fan assembly status
  • chassis type/inventory
Imported Objects

From BRIDGE-MIB

MacAddress

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter
Gauge
IpAddress
TimeTicks

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString

From XYLAN-BASE-MIB

xylanChassisOBJECT-IDENTITY
OIDs

RFC description

Generic chassis-level management MIB for multi-chassis systems and modular equipment.

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