HPN-ICF-LSW-DEV-ADM-MIB

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Last Updated: 2009-03-19

Category: Device Management, Vendor: H3C/HH3C, Vendor: HP/HPE

Description: Manages device administration objects such as device name, location, and contact for HP/Comware Layer 2 switches.

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What Is HPN-ICF-LSW-DEV-ADM-MIB?

HPN-ICF-LSW-DEV-ADM-MIB is a vendor-private HP Networking (HPN) MIB, part of the ICF (Comware-based Intelligent Configuration Framework) family, that defines device administration objects for HP/H3C Comware Layer 2 switches. It exposes basic device-identity attributes such as device name, physical location, and administrative contact information, functioning as a switch-specific complement to the standard system group. These objects support monitoring in an asset/inventory sense -- confirming a switch's configured name, site location, and contact person are accurate and up to date, which matters when correlating alarms or outages back to the correct physical device and responsible administrator; while it does not track uptime, temperature, or CPU/memory directly, an unexpectedly blank or changed device-name or location value can itself signal a misconfiguration or an unauthorized device swap during an audit. It functions alongside standard SNMPv2-MIB system objects (sysName, sysLocation, sysContact) and other Comware-based HPN-ICF MIBs that provide the deeper hardware/software status for the same switch line. Network teams looking up the HPN-ICF-LSW-DEV-ADM-MIB OID typically want to confirm where these device-identity objects sit in the enterprise tree before scripting bulk inventory audits, and this module is deployed across enterprise access and aggregation-layer HP/H3C Comware-based Layer 2 switches.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in HPN-ICF-LSW-DEV-ADM-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

  • H3C S6520X-18C-SI — high-throughput Comware-based aggregation switch, current product
  • H3C S5000V5 — stackable Comware Layer 2/3 switch (stacks up to 9 units), current product

Monitoring Examples

No sample objects were provided for this module (the module description is only "The latest baseline"), so specific table or object names cannot be confirmed here. Based on its stated purpose, an administrator would likely poll device-name, location, and contact objects analogous to sysName/sysLocation/sysContact but scoped to this Comware-based switch MIB, checking that a switch's configured location string matches its actual rack or site placement during an inventory audit. An unexpected or blank device-name value across a batch of switches polled at once could indicate devices still running factory defaults rather than site-specific configuration. Because no concrete object names were available, this scenario is inferred from the short description rather than grounded in named objects.

What Can Be Monitored

  • device name
  • device location
  • device contact
  • device identity/inventory accuracy
Imported Objects

From HCNUM-TC

CounterBasedGauge64

From HPN-ICF-OID-MIB

hpnicflswCommonOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using hpnicfLswSysCpuRatio OID:

Select an H3C Comware-based Layer 2 switch 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 hpnicfLswSysCpuRatio into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the switch's overall CPU utilization as a percentage (0-100). 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 Integer32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if CPU utilization exceeds 85%, a common warning threshold before sustained high load affects switching performance. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

FAQ

What would HPN-ICF-LSW-DEV-ADM-MIB be used for when managing a rack of HP/Comware Layer 2 switches?
It manages basic device administration objects on HP/Comware Layer 2 switches -- the device name, its physical location, and a contact for whoever is responsible for it. In a monitoring setup with many switches, populating and polling these fields lets an operations team quickly identify which switch is which and who to notify when an issue is found on a given unit.

Why bother configuring device name, location, and contact through this MIB rather than just labeling switches manually?
Because these are SNMP-manageable objects, a network management station can read or set the device name, location, and contact across an entire fleet of HP/Comware switches programmatically, keeping identification data consistent and queryable instead of relying on physical labels or separate spreadsheets.

RFC description

Hewlett-Packard network device management MIB for LAN switch physical information, slot types, port types, and device administration.

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