HUAWEI-DEVICE-MIB

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Organization: Fix-Net Dept, Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd.

Last Updated: 2004-06-28

Category: Device Management, Vendor: Huawei

Description: Huawei device management MIB providing fundamental hardware inventory, chassis management, and physical entity information for Huawei network devices.

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What Is HUAWEI-DEVICE-MIB?

HUAWEI-DEVICE-MIB is a foundational Huawei private MIB providing core hardware inventory and chassis management information, covering physical entities such as chassis, slots, boards, and modules across Huawei network devices. It exposes general device/physical-entity data analogous to (and likely complementary to) the standard ENTITY-MIB, describing what hardware is installed and its identification details. Its primary monitoring value is in tracking hardware inventory and presence/status of physical components, forming the base reference other Huawei MIBs (environment, power, fan, module-specific MIBs) use to identify which chassis or slot a given sensor or object belongs to. HUAWEI-DEVICE-MIB SNMP monitoring is therefore best suited to inventory and presence tracking rather than dynamic performance metrics, since its data changes only when hardware is added, removed, or reseated. It has a strong dependency on the standard IETF ENTITY-MIB, since Huawei's per-vendor device MIBs typically extend or parallel entPhysicalTable concepts. It is deployed across the full range of Huawei chassis-based routers and switches as a base inventory/management MIB.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in HUAWEI-DEVICE-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

  • Huawei chassis-based routers and switches

Monitoring Examples

A management system would walk this MIB's device/entity table to enumerate installed chassis, slots, and boards, cross-referencing each entry with the standard entPhysicalTable to build a complete hardware inventory. An administrator would use it to confirm a newly inserted line card appears with the correct board type and slot number, or to detect a card that has been physically removed. This inventory data underpins alarms raised by other Huawei hardware-monitoring MIBs that reference the same physical entity indices.

What Can Be Monitored

  • chassis/slot/board inventory
  • physical entity identification
  • hardware presence/removal status
Imported Objects

From HUAWEI-MIB

huaweiUtilityOBJECT-IDENTITY

From HUAWEI-TC-MIB

HWFrameType
HWPCBType
HWPortType
HWSubPCBType

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
RowStatus

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using hwAvgDuty5min OID:

Select a Huawei chassis-based router or 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 hwAvgDuty5min into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the device's overall CPU duty-cycle percentage averaged over the last 5 minutes. 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 the 5-minute average exceeds 85%, since sustained high CPU duty over several minutes (rather than a brief spike) is the more meaningful warning sign. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

See also: hwBufferCurrentUsed, hwCpuDevDuty

OIDs

RFC description

Huawei device management MIB defining system parameters, hardware, and device-level monitoring.

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