All MIBs › CIENA-CES-FILE-TRANSFER-MIB
Organization: Ciena Corp.
Last Updated: 2017-06-07
Category: Device Management, Vendor: Ciena
Description: Manages file transfer operations (upload/download) on Ciena CES Carrier Ethernet switches.
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What Is CIENA-CES-FILE-TRANSFER-MIB?
CIENA-CES-FILE-TRANSFER-MIB is part of Ciena's CES (Carrier Ethernet Solutions) private MIB suite and, per its module description, defines objects for managing file transfer operations such as software image or configuration file upload/download to and from the switch. Its data generally falls into configuration (parameters describing a transfer job) and operational-status (progress and outcome of that transfer) categories. Its monitoring value is chiefly in tracking the state of a file transfer used to install new software or configuration, supporting software-version and upgrade-lifecycle status rather than continuous hardware metrics. It is one module in a larger private Ciena CES MIB family that together covers the switch's full management surface. It is used by carrier/service-provider Ethernet management systems for provisioning and software lifecycle management of Ciena's carrier Ethernet switches, which rely on this module to track each CIENA-CES-FILE-TRANSFER-MIB download as it moves a new image or configuration file onto the device.
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Supported Devices
- Ciena CES Carrier Ethernet switch
Monitoring Examples
No specific object or table names were available for this module in the provided extract, so exact OIDs cannot be honestly cited here. Conceptually, based on its stated purpose, an operator driving a firmware or configuration upload would poll for the transfer's current state (in-progress, completed, or failed) and any associated error indication. A status stuck at in-progress, or a failure code, would signal a network path or storage problem preventing a software upgrade from completing.
What Can Be Monitored
- file transfer job status
- transfer protocol/method used
- transfer success/failure/error indication
- source and destination file identifiers
Imported Objects
From CIENA-GLOBAL-MIB
| cienaGlobalMacAddress | OBJECT-TYPE |
| cienaGlobalSeverity | OBJECT-TYPE |
From CIENA-SMI
| cienaCesConfig | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
| cienaCesNotifications | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString |
OIDs
RFC description
File transfer management for Ciena optical transport platforms and service delivery systems.
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