CTRON-ENVIRONMENT-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated October 05, 2026

All MIBs › CTRON-ENVIRONMENT-MIB

Category: Hardware and Environment, Vendor: Cabletron/Enterasys

Description: Monitors Cabletron environmental sensors including temperature, voltage, fan speed, and power supply status.

Start monitoring vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, any SNMPv3-capable network device (SNMP engine identity/boot/clock status) with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor. Import MIBs, browse SNMP OIDs, create custom SNMP monitors, configure alerts, and monitor any SNMP-enabled network device from a single console.

What Is CTRON-ENVIRONMENT-MIB?

CTRON-ENVIRONMENT-MIB is a Cabletron (Enterasys) enterprise MIB dedicated to physical environmental monitoring of Cabletron chassis-based network equipment. It exposes readings from onboard environmental sensors: chassis/ambient temperature, internal voltage levels, fan speed, and power supply operational status. This is one of the more direct hardware-health MIBs in the Cabletron family — it is specifically meant so an operator can detect overheating, a failing or stalled fan, an out-of-range voltage rail, or a power supply that has gone into a failed/degraded state before those conditions cause an outage. It typically works alongside CTRON-CHASSIS-MIB (slot/module inventory) to give a complete physical health picture of the device. It is deployed on Cabletron/Enterasys modular chassis switches, routers, and hubs that include hot-swappable power supplies and fan trays. Engineers can download the CTRON-ENVIRONMENT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CTRON-ENVIRONMENT-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

  • Cabletron/Enterasys modular chassis switch, router, or hub

Monitoring Examples

No specific object or table names were included in the source data for this MIB, so exact identifiers can't be cited, but based on the description an administrator would poll per-sensor temperature and fan-speed objects along with a power-supply status object. A temperature reading trending upward alongside a fan-speed object reporting a fault would indicate imminent thermal shutdown risk. Because no sample objects were provided, this remains a conceptual rather than object-level example.

What Can Be Monitored

  • chassis/ambient temperature
  • internal voltage levels
  • fan speed/status
  • power supply operational status
Imported Objects

From CTRON-MIB-NAMES

ctenvOBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE
OIDs

RFC description

Cabletron (Enterasys) environment management MIB. Defines SNMP objects for monitoring environmental parameters including chassis, board, power supply, and battery backup unit status on legacy network equipment.

Start monitoring Cabletron/Enterasys modular chassis switch/router/hub (environmental sensors) with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor. Import MIBs, browse SNMP OIDs, create custom SNMP monitors, configure alerts, and monitor any SNMP-enabled network device from a single console.

Download CTRON-ENVIRONMENT-MIB