GEIST-V4-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Geist

Last Updated: 2012-09-11

Category: Domain: Environmental Monitoring, Hardware and Environment, Vendor: Geist

Description: Geist V4 platform MIB for monitoring rack PDU power consumption, environmental sensors, and outlet control.

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What Is GEIST-V4-MIB?

GEIST-V4-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB from Geist, a manufacturer of data center power distribution units and environmental monitoring products, covering their "V4" generation of rack PDU and environmental monitoring hardware. It exposes product identity objects (title, version, friendly name, MAC address, URL) alongside device inventory and internal-sensor tables, and per its description also covers power consumption, environmental sensors like temperature, and outlet control. Its monitoring emphasis is heavily hardware-status oriented: tracking internal sensor readings, temperature values, device counts, and firmware/product version to detect overheating, power anomalies, or firmware mismatches across a fleet of Geist devices. It is a self-contained vendor product MIB (the "blackbird"/"bb100" naming suggests specific Geist product model branches) without strong dependency on external standard MIBs. It is deployed in data centers and server rooms using Geist rack PDUs/environmental monitors to track power draw, temperature, and outlet-level status. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the GEIST-V4-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in GEIST-V4-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

  • Geist rack PDU
  • Geist environmental monitoring appliance

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll internalTable/internalEntry rows (keyed by internalIndex, with internalSerial identifying the sensor/module) alongside temperatureUnits and productVersion to monitor environmental readings and confirm firmware consistency across Geist devices such as "blackbird" or "bb100" product lines. A temperature reading trending upward in the internal sensor table, or a deviceCount mismatch from expectation, would flag a cooling problem or an unexpected change in the monitored device population.

What Can Be Monitored

  • temperature readings
  • device/product identity and firmware version
  • internal sensor table entries
  • device count
  • power/outlet status
Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using internalAvail OID:

Select a Geist rack PDU / environmental monitoring appliance (V4 generation) 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 internalAvail 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. It reports is device currently plugged in?. 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 Gauge32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the value is anything other than '1 (plugged in)', since that indicates the condition this object reports has changed to one worth investigating. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Provides device configuration and environmental monitoring for Geist Blackbird systems.

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