CUMULUS-SNMP-MIB

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Organization: www.cumulusnetworks.com

Last Updated: 2012-07-23

Category: Device Management, Net-SNMP and Linux, SNMP Framework, Vendor: Cumulus Networks

Description:

Provides Cumulus Linux system identity, platform information, and SNMP agent configuration objects.

Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

What Is CUMULUS-SNMP-MIB?

CUMULUS-SNMP-MIB is Cumulus Networks' enterprise MIB defining the top-level infrastructure of the Cumulus tree, providing system identity, platform information, and SNMP agent configuration objects for switches running Cumulus Linux, a Linux-based network operating system for white-box/bare-metal Ethernet switches. It focuses on establishing platform and agent-level identity data rather than deep hardware sensor telemetry, giving visibility into which Cumulus Linux platform and software version an SNMP agent is reporting from. Its monitoring relevance is primarily software/agent status -- confirming the switch is running the expected Cumulus Linux version and that its SNMP agent configuration is correctly applied -- which is foundational for any deeper interface, environmental, or performance monitoring layered via standard MIB-II or vendor-specific tables on the same switch. It is built as an enterprise extension and is expected to work alongside standard IETF MIBs (IF-MIB, ENTITY-MIB, HOST-RESOURCES-MIB) that Cumulus Linux, being Linux-based, commonly also exposes. It is deployed on white-box switches running Cumulus Linux in data-center and enterprise networking environments, typically monitored by open-source or commercial NMS platforms via standard and Cumulus-specific SNMP polling. Because the module defines only top-level identity and agent objects, opening it in a CUMULUS-SNMP-MIB MIB Browser view is often the simplest way to confirm the exact OIDs available before deeper polling.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CUMULUS-SNMP-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.

What Can Be Monitored

  • Cumulus Linux platform identity
  • SNMP agent configuration status
  • system version information

Supported Devices

  • NVIDIA Spectrum-4 SN5600 (2023) — current data center switch running NVIDIA Cumulus Linux NOS
  • NVIDIA Cumulus Linux — actively maintained network OS (GA/LTS branches patched through 2026)

Monitoring Examples

Only the IMPORTS clause was provided as a sample object, so specific data object names cannot be directly grounded; based on the module's stated purpose, an operator would expect to poll top-level system identity and SNMP agent configuration objects to confirm the Cumulus Linux platform version and agent settings are as expected, but no concrete table/object names can be cited as verified from the given evidence.

OIDs
OID symbolicOID numericTypeAccessDescription
cumulusMib1.3.6.1.4.1.40310Top-level infrastructure of the Cumulus enterprise MIB tree

RFC description

Cumulus Networks Linux switch operating system management and monitoring MIB.

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