DCP-ALARM-MIB

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Organization: Smartoptics.

Last Updated: 2020-06-24

Category: Alarm and Event Management, Optical and WDM

Description: Manages alarm conditions and notifications for DCP digital communications platform equipment.

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What Is DCP-ALARM-MIB?

DCP-ALARM-MIB is Smartoptics' enterprise-specific alarm MIB for its DCP optical transport platform, part of a family of optical/DWDM management MIBs. It exposes an alarm summary and an active-alarm-list table covering severity-classified conditions (critical, major, minor, warning) along with counts of active and logged alarms. It is used specifically to monitor fault/status health of the optical hardware — administrators track the highest active severity and per-severity active counts to detect degrading conditions such as a failing optical module or link, and use the last trap sequence number to confirm no alarm notifications were missed. It works alongside DCP-LINKVIEW-MIB, which supplies the physical-layer optical measurements that often underlie these alarms. Typical deployment is a Smartoptics DCP optical transport chassis in a metro/DWDM network monitored centrally for alarm status. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the DCP-ALARM-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

Smartoptics DCP optical transport platform

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll dcpAlarmGeneralHighestSeverity together with dcpAlarmGeneralActiveCritical/ActiveMajor/ActiveMinor/ActiveWarning to get an at-a-glance severity breakdown, then walk dcpAlarmActiveListTable/dcpAlarmActiveListEntry (indexed by dcpAlarmActiveListIndex) to read dcpAlarmActiveListLocation for the specific card or port raising the alarm. A rising dcpAlarmGeneralNumberActiveList combined with a jump in dcpAlarmGeneralLastTrapSeqNumber would indicate a burst of new fault events needing investigation.

What Can Be Monitored

active alarm count by severity
highest active alarm severity
active alarm location/list
alarm log count
trap sequence number

Imported Objects

From DCP-MIB

dcpGeneric

OBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

From SO-TC-MIB

ItuPerceivedSeverity

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
dcpAlarm	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2			This is the enterprise specific DCP ALARM MIB for Smartoptics
dcpAlarmGeneral	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1
dcpAlarmGeneralList	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1.1
ITU dcpAlarmGeneralHighestSeverity	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1.1.1	ItuPerceivedSeverity	read-only	The highest severity of the active alarms in the system.
U32 dcpAlarmGeneralActiveCritical	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1.1.2	Unsigned32	read-only	The number of active critical alarms in the system.
U32 dcpAlarmGeneralActiveMajor	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1.1.3	Unsigned32	read-only	The number of active major alarms in the system.
U32 dcpAlarmGeneralActiveMinor	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1.1.4	Unsigned32	read-only	The number of active minor alarms in the system.
U32 dcpAlarmGeneralActiveWarning	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1.1.5	Unsigned32	read-only	The number of active warning alarms in the system.
U32 dcpAlarmGeneralNumberActiveList	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1.1.6	Unsigned32	read-only	The number of active alarms in the system. This is also the number of alarms in the dcpAlarmActiveLTable
U32 dcpAlarmGeneralNumberLogList	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1.1.7	Unsigned32	read-only	The number of alarms(active and deactivated) there is in the system. This number matches the number of rows in the dcpAlarmLogTable.
U32 dcpAlarmGeneralLastTrapSeqNumber	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.1.1.8	Unsigned32	read-only	The sequece number used when the last Enterprise trap was sent.
dcpAlarmObjects	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2
dcpAlarmActiveListTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1		not-accessible	Keeps a list of the current active alarms in the system.
dcpAlarmActiveListEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1.1		not-accessible	Description.
DCP dcpAlarmActiveListIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1.1.1	DcpAlarmIndex	read-only	Unique index assigned to each alarm.
STR dcpAlarmActiveListLocation	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1.1.2	DisplayString	read-only	The location from where the alarm originated. chassis, slot 1, slot 2, psu-1/1, psu-1/2 or fan-1/1
STR dcpAlarmActiveListInterfaceName	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1.1.3	DisplayString	read-only	The interface name from where the alarm originated. If no interface this value is empty. if-c/s/i where c = chassis, s = slot, i = interface or if-c/channelid where c = chassis.
STR dcpAlarmActiveListText	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	The text for the alarm.
ITU dcpAlarmActiveListSeverity	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1.1.5	ItuPerceivedSeverity	read-only	The severity of the alarm as defined in ITU-T X.733.
DAT dcpAlarmActiveListStartTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1.1.6	DateAndTime	read-only	The time when the alarm was activated.
U32 dcpAlarmActiveListSeqNumber	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1.1.7	Unsigned32	read-only	This OID currently always returns 0.
STR dcpAlarmActiveListInterfaceDescription	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.1.1.8	DisplayString	read-only	The interface description field from where the alarm originated.
dcpAlarmLogTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2		not-accessible	Keeps a list of the current active and deactivated alarms in the system.
dcpAlarmLogEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1		not-accessible	Description.
DCP dcpAlarmLogListIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1.1	DcpAlarmIndex	read-only	Unique index assigned to each alarm.
STR dcpAlarmLogListLocation	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1.2	DisplayString	read-only	The location from where the alarm originated. chassis, slot 1, slot 2, psu-1/1, psu-1/2 or fan-1/1
STR dcpAlarmLogListInterfaceName	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1.3	DisplayString	read-only	The interface name from where the alarm originated. If no interface this value is empty. if-c/s/i where c = chassis, s = slot and i = interface number.
STR dcpAlarmLogListText	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	The alarm text for the alarm.
ITU dcpAlarmLogListSeverity	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1.5	ItuPerceivedSeverity	read-only	The severity of the alarm as defined in ITU-T X.733.
DAT dcpAlarmLogListStartTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1.6	DateAndTime	read-only	The time when the alarm was activated.
DAT dcpAlarmLogListEndTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1.7	DateAndTime	read-only	The time when the alarm was deactivated.
U32 dcpAlarmLogListSeqNumber	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1.8	Unsigned32	read-only	This OID currently always returns 0.
STR dcpAlarmLogListInterfaceDescription	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.2.2.1.9	DisplayString	read-only	The interface description field from where the alarm originated.
dcpAlarmMIBNotifications	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.3
dcpAlarmNotification	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.3.0
NTF dcpAlarmNotificationCleared	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.3.0.1			Sent when an alarm is deactivated.
NTF dcpAlarmNotificationCritical	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.3.0.2			Sent when an alarm of severity critical is activated.
NTF dcpAlarmNotificationMajor	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.3.0.3			Sent when an alarm of severity major is activated.
NTF dcpAlarmNotificationMinor	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.3.0.4			Sent when an alarm of severity minor is activated.
NTF dcpAlarmNotificationWarning	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.3.0.5			Sent when an alarm of severity warning is activated.
dcpAlarmMIBCompliance	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4
dcpAlarmMIBGroups	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.1
dcpAlarmGeneralGroupV1	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.1.1			The general alarm objects V1.
dcpAlarmNotificationGroupV1	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.1.2			The alarm notifications V1.
dcpAlarmActiveListGroupV1	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.1.3			The active alarm list objects V1.
dcpAlarmLogListGroupV1	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.1.4			The alarm log list objects V1.
dcpAlarmLogListGroupV2	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.1.5			The alarm log list objects V2.
dcpAlarmActiveListGroupV2	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.1.6			The active alarm list objects V2.
dcpAlarmMIBCompliances	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.2
dcpAlarmBasicComplV1	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.2.1			Basic implementation requirements for the DCP-ALARM-MIB V1.
dcpAlarmBasicComplV2	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.2.2			Basic requirements for the DCP-ALARM-MIB Compliance V2.
dcpAlarmBasicComplV3	1.3.6.1.4.1.30826.2.2.2.4.2.3			Basic requirements for the DCP-ALARM-MIB Compliance V3.

RFC description

Vendor-specific MIB for managing alarms in a DCP (Data Communications Protocol or vendor product) system.

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What Is DCP-ALARM-MIB?

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