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Category: Hardware and Environment, Vendor: HP/HPE
Description: Provides generic management objects for Compaq/HP ProLiant server general system information.
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What Is CPQGEN-MIB?
CPQGEN-MIB is part of Compaq's (later Hewlett-Packard's) Insight Management Agent family for ProLiant servers, providing generic, top-level system identity and general management objects rather than a single specialized subsystem. It typically exposes categories such as overall system identification, agent versioning, and pointers into the broader Compaq/HP enterprise MIB tree used by more specific sub-agents (storage, power, thermal, NIC). Within that role it supports monitoring of basic hardware/software status such as system model and serial identification, installed management agent software version, and general system health roll-up indicators that feed into HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager) dashboards. It commonly depends on the wider Compaq/HP enterprise MIB hierarchy (CPQHOST, CPQHLTH, CPQSTDEQ, etc.) for detailed subsystem data, acting as a root/general layer above them. It is typically deployed on Compaq/HP ProLiant rack and tower servers managed via SNMP-based systems management software in enterprise data centers. Engineers can download the CPQGEN-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Compaq ProLiant server
- HP ProLiant server
Monitoring Examples
Because no module description or sample objects were available for this MIB, a concrete polling scenario cannot be responsibly constructed from the source data; in practice, generic identity/status objects of this kind are polled to confirm agent presence and basic system identity as a precondition before drilling into subsystem-specific Compaq/HP MIBs for temperature, power, or disk detail. No object or table names could be grounded against actual MIB content in this batch.
What Can Be Monitored
- system identification
- management agent version
- general system status roll-up
Imported Objects
From RFC-1212
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From RFC-1215
| TRAP-TYPE |
From RFC1155-SMI
| Counter | |
| IpAddress | |
| enterprises |
From RFC1213-MIB
| DisplayString | |
| sysName |
OIDs
RFC description
Provides generic trap handling for unregistered Compaq MIBs including enterprise OID and trap identification variables.
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