All MIBs › HP-ICF-MIN-KEY-MIB
Organization: HP Networking
Last Updated: 2016-06-22
Category: Domain: Security, Protocol: SSH, Vendor: HP/HPE
Description: HP ICF SNMP MIB for minimum cryptographic key length enforcement on SSH and TLS connections for HP ProCurve switches.
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What Is HP-ICF-MIN-KEY-MIB?
HP-ICF-MIN-KEY-MIB is an HP (ProCurve/HPE Integrated Communication Facility, ICF) MIB for enforcing a minimum cryptographic key length on secure management protocols such as SSH and TLS on HP ProCurve switches. No sample objects were available in this excerpt, so specific object names cannot be confirmed, but by its stated purpose it would expose a configurable minimum key-size threshold and likely a compliance/enforcement status indicator. Its monitoring relevance is security-policy/software configuration status rather than physical hardware health — confirming that weak keys are being rejected is analogous to verifying a security control is active, distinct from tracking temperature, CPU, or power. It is an HP-specific extension within the ICF MIB family and would be used alongside HP's broader SSH/TLS management objects rather than any single IETF standard. It is deployed on HP ProCurve switches in enterprise networks where administrators need to enforce minimum key-strength policy for secure remote management. Engineers can download the HP-ICF-MIN-KEY-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- HP ProCurve switch
Monitoring Examples
Without sample objects in this excerpt, a concrete polling scenario using real object names cannot be given; in practice an operator managing HP ProCurve switches would be expected to check a configured minimum-key-size threshold object to confirm it meets the organization's security policy, and would flag any switch whose enforced minimum falls below the required standard, though the exact object name cannot be confirmed here.
Imported Objects
From HP-ICF-OID
| hpSwitch | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| RowStatus |
OIDs
RFC description
Enforces minimum secure key size settings on HP ICF switches. Configures cryptographic key requirements for secure communications.
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