CIENA-CES-CHASSIS-MIB

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Organization: Ciena Corp.

Last Updated: 2018-10-17

Category: Hardware and Environment, Vendor: Ciena

Description: Monitors chassis hardware components including slots, fans, and power supplies on Ciena CES switches.

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What Is CIENA-CES-CHASSIS-MIB?

CIENA-CES-CHASSIS-MIB is a Ciena enterprise MIB for the CES (Carrier Ethernet Switch) product line, defining chassis-level hardware configuration objects and the notifications associated with chassis events. It exposes chassis component health data, including a process health table for monitoring the operational state of internal software processes. Administrators use it to monitor both hardware status (chassis components such as slots, fans, and power supplies per the module's stated scope) and software process health, helping detect a failed process, an overheating condition, or a power/fan fault that could lead to an outage. It likely complements the standard IETF Entity MIB for physical inventory representation, though implemented as a Ciena proprietary extension for chassis-specific alarms. It is deployed on Ciena CES carrier Ethernet switches used by service providers for Carrier Ethernet access and aggregation. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CIENA-CES-CHASSIS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CIENA-CES-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

  • Ciena CES (Carrier Ethernet Switch) chassis

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll cienaCesChassisProcessHealthTable to check the operational status of internal software processes running on the CES chassis, with a process reporting a failed or degraded state indicating a software fault that may require a restart or escalation. Combined with the chassis's broader fan and power supply status objects (per the module's stated scope), this table lets an operator distinguish between a hardware environmental fault and a software process crash when diagnosing a chassis alarm.

What Can Be Monitored

  • internal process health/status
  • fan status
  • power supply status
  • chassis component/slot state
Imported Objects

From CIENA-CES-MODULE-MIB

TceHealthCategory
TceHealthStatus

From CIENA-GLOBAL-MIB

cienaGlobalSeverityOBJECT-TYPE

From CIENA-SMI

cienaCesConfigOBJECT-IDENTITY
cienaCesNotificationsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
MacAddress
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Manages chassis configuration and health status for Ciena CES (Common Equipment Software) optical systems; vendor-private chassis/module monitoring.

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