DOCS-EQAM-MIB

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Organization: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Last Updated: 2008-12-09

Category: Domain: CATV/Cable, Domain: Video/Broadcast, Standard: DOCSIS

Description: Manages Edge Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (EQAM) device configuration for video and data over cable.

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What Is DOCS-EQAM-MIB?

DOCS-EQAM-MIB manages Edge Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (EQAM) devices, the headend/edge equipment that converts IP video and data streams into RF QAM signals for delivery over cable plant. It exposes device control operations such as reset, initialization cause tracking, and configuration save/upload, along with time-synchronization settings (NTP master/backup servers, time zone, daylight saving) and a syslog server table for centralized logging. For monitoring, docsEqamControlInitCause is a key fault-diagnosis object revealing why an EQAM device last reset (power cycle vs. software fault vs. watchdog), while the NTP and syslog configuration objects let an admin confirm the device's time sync and logging are correctly pointed at management infrastructure, both prerequisites for trustworthy fault timestamps elsewhere in the network. As an edge device in the video/data delivery chain it typically works alongside DOCSIS CMTS MIBs and general SNMP notification frameworks (docsEqamNotifications) for broader network fault correlation. It is deployed by cable/MSO headend operators managing EQAM shelves that feed video and DOCSIS data onto the RF plant. Engineers can download the DOCS-EQAM-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in DOCS-EQAM-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

  • EQAM (Edge QAM) headend/edge device

Monitoring Examples

An operator can check docsEqamControlInitCause after an alert to determine whether an EQAM chassis rebooted due to a commanded docsEqamControlReset, a power event, or an internal fault. Polling docsEqamSyslogServerTable/docsEqamSyslogServerEntry confirms the device is still pointed at the correct centralized syslog collector, and docsEqamTimeNtpMaster/docsEqamTimeNtpBackup verify time synchronization sources are reachable, a loss of NTP sync would explain skewed timestamps in subsequent fault logs. docsEqamControlSaveCfg/docsEqamControlUploadCfg status can confirm whether a recent configuration change was successfully persisted or backed up.

What Can Be Monitored

  • device reset/init cause
  • configuration save/upload status
  • NTP time sync source and status
  • syslog server configuration
  • time zone/daylight saving configuration
Imported Objects

From CLAB-DEF-MIB

clabProjDocsisOBJECT-IDENTITY

From DOCS-CABLE-DEVICE-MIB

docsDevEvIdOBJECT-TYPE
docsDevEvLevelOBJECT-TYPE
docsDevEvTextOBJECT-TYPE

From DOCS-IF-MIB

TenthdBmV

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber

From SCTE-HMS-HEADENDIDENT-TC-MIB

HePIDValue
QAMChannelInterleaveMode
QAMChannelModulationFormat

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-MIB

sysNameOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
RowStatus
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using docsEqamSessionLogInputContinuityErrors OID:

Select an EQAM (Edge QAM) headend/edge device (vendor-neutral CableLabs standard) as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type docsEqamSessionLogInputContinuityErrors into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. This attribute indicates the total number of continuity counter errors for the session. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Edge QAM provisioning and management for cable television equipment and headends.

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