All MIBs › ELTEX-MES-PHYSICAL-DESCRIPTION-MIB
Organization: Eltex Ltd.
Last Updated: 2015-09-14
Category: Vendor: Eltex
Description: Eltex MES physical description MIB for reporting hardware inventory including chassis, cards, ports, and serial numbers.
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What Is ELTEX-MES-PHYSICAL-DESCRIPTION-MIB?
ELTEX-MES-PHYSICAL-DESCRIPTION-MIB is a private Eltex module for MES series switches that reports physical hardware inventory details, with particular focus on installed transceivers (SFP/SFP+ optical or copper modules). It exposes a table of per-transceiver attributes covering identification, optical characteristics, and diagnostic capability. This is a hardware-status MIB in the classic sense: it lets an administrator inventory and monitor the health of pluggable optical modules, including vendor, serial number, and whether digital diagnostic monitoring is available, which is critical for detecting failing or mismatched optics. It has no strong dependency on other standard MIBs beyond general entity/inventory conventions, functioning as a self-contained hardware-description module. It is typically deployed on Eltex MES switches with SFP/SFP+ cages, used by operators to audit optics inventory and catch incompatible or failing transceivers. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the ELTEX-MES-PHYSICAL-DESCRIPTION-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Eltex MES series switch
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would poll eltPhdTransceiverInfoTable, indexed per port, to read eltPhdTransceiverInfoVendorName, eltPhdTransceiverInfoSerialNumber, and eltPhdTransceiverInfoType to build an accurate optics inventory across a chassis. The eltPhdTransceiverInfoWaveLength, eltPhdTransceiverInfoTransferDistance, and eltPhdTransceiverInfoComplianceCode fields reveal whether an installed SFP matches the fiber type and distance requirements of its link, while eltPhdTransceiverInfoDiagnostic indicates whether real-time optical diagnostics (e.g., Tx/Rx power) are supported for that module, letting an operator flag ports with unsupported or suspect transceivers before they cause link failures.
What Can Be Monitored
- installed transceiver vendor and serial number
- transceiver type and connector type
- wavelength and transfer distance
- compliance code / diagnostic capability of optics
Imported Objects
From ELTEX-MES
| eltMes | MODULE-IDENTITY |
From IF-MIB
| InterfaceIndex | |
| InterfaceIndexOrZero | |
| ifIndex | OBJECT-TYPE |
From MAU-MIB
| JackType |
From RADLAN-Physicaldescription-MIB
| rlCascadeEntry | OBJECT-TYPE |
| rlPhdUnitGenParamEntry | OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE | |
| TimeTicks |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| PhysAddress | |
| RowStatus | |
| TruthValue |
OIDs
RFC description
Provides physical device configuration and transceiver information for Eltex managed switches.
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