GENLIC-MIB

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Organization: Lucent Technologies Inc.

Last Updated: 2000-06-22

Category: Vendor: Lucent/Ascend

Description: Lucent Technologies generic license MIB for managing software feature license tracking and entitlement status.

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What Is GENLIC-MIB?

GENLIC-MIB is a Lucent Technologies proprietary MIB (enterprise OID 81) implementing a common software-license management framework shared across Lucent products. Its module-identity table tracks each licensed module by a unique ID, while its feature table records each licensed feature's ID, an optional modifier, name, and license value/status. As a software-status MIB it lets an administrator confirm which licensed features are active on a Lucent device and their current license status, useful when auditing license compliance or troubleshooting a feature unexpectedly unavailable due to licensing. It is deployed on Lucent products using this common licensing framework. Engineers can download the GENLIC-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in GENLIC-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

Lucent Technologies products using the common license (GENLIC) framework

Monitoring Examples

An administrator checks licFeatureLicense for a specific feature that's unexpectedly unavailable, confirming whether a licensing problem (rather than a configuration error) is the actual cause.

What Can Be Monitored

licensed module/feature status

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using licFeatureLicenseStatus OID:

Select a Lucent Technologies products using the common license (GENLIC) framework 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 licFeatureLicenseStatus 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. The state of the feature in terms of the licensing mechanism. 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 an INTEGER-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the value is anything other than 'licensed', 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

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
lannet	1.3.6.1.4.1.81
license	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37			Lucent Common License MIB
licensePerModule	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1
licModuleIdentTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.1		not-accessible	Table of module identifieres used for requesting licenses
licModuleIdentEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.1.1		not-accessible	An entry in the table, containing data about a single modules operations.
INT licModuleIdentIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.1.1.1	INTEGER	read-only	Index which identifies the module inside the chassis for which this entry contains information. Equals the number of the slot by which the group is accessed or the stackable index.
OCT licModuleIdentUniqueID	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.1.1.2	OCTET STRING	read-only	The Unique identifier of this module. Example: the MAC Address of the agent onboard a P330 module. Must be 6 octets long.
licFeatureTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.2		not-accessible	Table of features and their licenses as entered to each module.
licFeatureTableEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.2.1		not-accessible	An entry in the table, containing data about a particular feature on a particular module.
INT licFeatureId	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.2.1.1	INTEGER	read-only	The basic feature type. Features numbered 208 (0xD0) and above are reserved for host-based applications.
OCT licFeatureModifier	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.2.1.2	OCTET STRING	read-only	The FeatureModifier field for this feature. value Set when a license is entered.
STR licFeatureName	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.2.1.3	DisplayString	read-only	The name of the feature. Used by CLI commands. Must be a lowercase string without spaces. Feature Names: smon - Switch Monitoring routing - Enable routing functions rich-layer-2 - Enable Policy calssifications and actions in a Layer 2 switch server-load-balance - Load balancing server traffic. rfc-1483 - Enable RFC 1483 functions. load-balance - Enable load balancing. cajun-view-plus - host-based Network Managemnet application real-net-rules - host-based Policy Management application.
OCT licFeatureLicense	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.2.1.4	OCTET STRING	read-write	The License needed for this feature. The length serves to diffrentiate between the old SMON scheme and the new versions. 9 octet string - license version 0x02 and onwards 12 octets string - old SMON license. Note that on pre-configured devices, a feature may be active without a license key (License key=0).
INT licFeatureLicenseStatusEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.81.37.1.2.1.5	INTEGER	read-only	The state of the feature in terms of the licensing mechanism. State will change to licensed(1) if a valid license is enetered, or if the feature is somhow pre-configured. Note that a licensed feature may be inactive. However, an unlicened feature cannot be activated.

RFC description

Lucent generic license management MIB for monitoring and controlling feature licenses on network devices.

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