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Organization: Cyan, Inc.
Last Updated: 2014-12-07
Category: Optical and WDM, Vendor: Ciena
Description: Manages the BOSS backplane subsystem for Cyan optical networking platforms.
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What Is CYAN-BOSS-MIB?
CYAN-BOSS-MIB is Cyan Inc.'s (a packet-optical networking vendor) SNMP module for managing the BOSS (backplane/shelf controller) subsystem within its optical transport platforms. It exposes per-shelf hardware inventory and status objects for the backplane/shelf controller module, indexed by shelf and BOSS ID, including asset tag, base MAC address, and installed software build version. Its core value is hardware and software status monitoring: cyanBossActivestandbyState and cyanBossAdminState reveal whether a given BOSS controller is currently active or in standby (redundancy state) and administratively enabled, cyanBossActiveLed/cyanBossAlarmLed mirror the physical LED indicators for at-a-glance fault visibility, and cyanBossAutoinserviceSoakTimeSec and cyanBossCurrCyanSwBuildVersions expose provisioning/software-version state used to confirm the controller booted with expected firmware. It is a self-contained Cyan enterprise MIB with no explicit external MIB dependency indicated. It is deployed in service-provider optical transport networks running Cyan Z-Series/packet-optical platforms, where the BOSS module provides shelf-level control and redundancy that must be monitored for hardware faults or failover events, typically starting with a CYAN-BOSS-MIB download to load the module into network management tooling.
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Supported Devices
- Cyan Inc. packet-optical transport platforms (Z-Series)
Monitoring Examples
An operator would poll cyanBossTable/cyanBossEntry (indexed by cyanBossShelfId, cyanBossBossId) to check cyanBossActivestandbyState and cyanBossAdminState -- an unexpected switch from active to standby indicates a BOSS controller failover, while a mismatch in cyanBossCurrCyanSwBuildVersions across redundant controllers reveals a software version inconsistency; cyanBossAlarmLed reflects whether the physical alarm LED is lit, corresponding to a hardware fault condition on that shelf.
What Can Be Monitored
- active/standby controller state
- administrative state
- alarm/active LED status
- software build version
- base MAC address
- auto-in-service soak timer
Imported Objects
From CYAN-MIB
| CyanTypeTc | |
| cyanEntityModules | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From CYAN-TC-MIB
| CyanActvStdbyTc | |
| CyanAdminStateTc | |
| CyanLEDTc | |
| CyanOffOnTc | |
| CyanOpStateQualTc | |
| CyanOpStateTc | |
| CyanSecServiceStateTc |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE | |
| Unsigned32 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString |
OIDs
RFC description
Cyan vendor-private MIB for managing BOSS (Bandwidth Optimization Storage System) optical network elements.
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