HILLSTONE-TEMPERATURE-MIB

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Category: Environmental Monitoring

Description: Monitors chassis and CPU temperature sensors on Hillstone Networks appliances.

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What Is HILLSTONE-TEMPERATURE-MIB?

HILLSTONE-TEMPERATURE-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB from Hillstone Networks for monitoring temperature sensors across the chassis and CPU of Hillstone security appliances (firewalls/UTM devices). It exposes a temperature sensor table listing each sensor's index, description, and current temperature reading, providing a straightforward hardware-environmental monitoring dataset. This MIB is squarely a hardware-health monitoring MIB: it lets an operator poll per-sensor temperature values to detect overheating conditions in the chassis or CPU that could precede thermal shutdown or performance throttling, directly analogous to classic entity-sensor temperature monitoring. It likely parallels concepts found in the standard ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB, though implemented independently as a Hillstone-specific table. Typical deployment is on Hillstone Networks firewall/security appliances in data center or branch environments where thermal monitoring is part of routine hardware health checks. Engineers can download the HILLSTONE-TEMPERATURE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in HILLSTONE-TEMPERATURE-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

  • Hillstone Networks firewall/UTM appliance

Monitoring Examples

An administrator polls hillstoneTemperatureTable/hillstoneTemperatureEntry, iterating over hillstoneTemperatureIndex entries, to read hillstoneTemperatureValue alongside hillstoneTemperatureDescr for each named sensor (e.g. CPU or chassis intake). A steadily rising hillstoneTemperatureValue on the CPU sensor without a corresponding drop would indicate a failing fan or blocked airflow, prompting a hardware inspection before thermal shutdown occurs. hillstoneTemperatureNumber gives the total sensor count expected, useful for detecting a sensor that has dropped out of the table entirely.

What Can Be Monitored

  • per-sensor temperature reading
  • sensor description/location
  • total temperature sensor count
  • CPU temperature
  • chassis temperature

This MIB depends on

Related MIBs

Imported Objects

From HILLSTONE-SMI

hillstoneTemperatureOBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC-1212

Integer32
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using hillstoneTemperatureValue OID:

Select a Hillstone Networks firewalls/UTM appliance 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 hillstoneTemperatureValue 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 TEMPERATURE value . 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 reported value exceeds the level expected for healthy operation, since sustained high temperature often precedes thermal shutdown or hardware degradation. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Hillstone Networks security appliance temperature sensor monitoring and thresholds.

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