CIENA-WS-CHASSIS-MIB

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All MIBsCIENA-WS-CHASSIS-MIB

Organization: Ciena Corporation

Last Updated: 2017-07-07

Category: Hardware and Environment, Optical and WDM, Vendor: Ciena

Description: Monitors overall chassis hardware, slots, and environmental sensors on Ciena WaveServer platforms.

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What Is CIENA-WS-CHASSIS-MIB?

CIENA-WS-CHASSIS-MIB is a Ciena enterprise MIB that models chassis-level hardware for the Ciena Waveserver optical transport platform, covering chassis identification, capabilities, and control. It exposes data such as chassis model, description, type, and the number of available slots, along with a control table for chassis-level operations. This MIB is squarely a hardware-monitoring module: it lets operators confirm chassis identity/model, verify slot capacity for capacity planning, and issue or observe chassis control actions, all central to physical platform health and inventory tracking. It is a Ciena-proprietary MIB specific to the Waveserver product family rather than derived from an IETF standard. It is deployed in optical transport/DWDM environments where Waveserver chassis house line and client modules for high-capacity point-to-point optical connections. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CIENA-WS-CHASSIS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CIENA-WS-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 Waveserver optical transport platform

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll cwsChassisChassisidentificationModel and cwsChassisChassisidentificationDescription to confirm the chassis hardware type, and cwsChassisChassiscapabilitiesNumOfSlots to verify available module slots against expected chassis capacity; entries in cwsChassisControlTable would be used to observe or trigger chassis-level control operations such as resets, with unexpected changes in identification data potentially indicating a hardware replacement or misconfiguration.

What Can Be Monitored

  • chassis model/description/type
  • number of available slots
  • chassis control/operational actions
  • chassis identification consistency
Imported Objects

From CIENA-WS-MIB

cienaWsConfigOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CIENA-WS-TYPEDEFS-MIB

EnabledDisabledEnum
LineModuleTypeBits
MacString
ModuleTypeBits
StringMaxl16
StringMaxl254
StringMaxl32
StringMaxl50
UpDownEnum
YesNoEnum

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
OIDs

RFC description

Manages Ciena Waveserver chassis identification, components, power supplies, cooling fans, and management ports.

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