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Organization: Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd.
Last Updated: 2009-01-05
Category: Device Management, Vendor: Huawei
Description: Huawei device extended MIB providing supplementary hardware inventory, chassis, and physical component objects for Huawei device management.
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What Is HUAWEI-DEVICE-EXT-MIB?
HUAWEI-DEVICE-EXT-MIB is a Huawei proprietary MIB supplementing base device/hardware inventory with additional chassis and physical-component objects, collecting foundational information about a device's physical makeup. Its stated purpose is to collect base device information, which for this MIB family typically includes chassis type, slot/board inventory, and component identification beyond what the standard ENTITY-MIB provides. Its monitoring relevance is hardware status: confirming which physical components (boards, chassis, power/fan units) are present and recognized by the device, useful as a baseline hardware-inventory check and for detecting a missing or newly inserted component after maintenance. It extends the standard IETF ENTITY-MIB's physical-entity model with Huawei-specific detail rather than replacing it. It is deployed broadly across Huawei routers and switches as a foundational hardware-inventory layer used by NMS asset-management and topology tools. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the HUAWEI-DEVICE-EXT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Huawei routers and switches
Monitoring Examples
No detailed sample objects were captured for this MIB, so a grounded object-level example cannot be confirmed; based on its stated purpose, an NMS would poll this MIB's device/component tables to enumerate installed chassis, slots, and boards, cross-checking against the standard ENTITY-MIB's entPhysicalTable to detect a board that failed to be recognized after insertion.
What Can Be Monitored
- chassis/component inventory
- slot and board presence
- physical component identification
Imported Objects
From HUAWEI-MIB
| hwDatacomm | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
| SnmpAdminString |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| NOTIFICATION-GROUP | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| IpAddress | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DateAndTime | |
| RowStatus |
OIDs
RFC description
Huawei Device extension MIB for collecting base device information including serial number, platform name, version, and product name.
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