HUAWEI-ENTITY-TRAP-MIB

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Organization: Huawei Technologies co.,Ltd.

Last Updated: 2007-01-17

Category: Alarm and Event Management, Vendor: Huawei

Description: Huawei entity trap MIB defining notifications for physical inventory changes including card insertion/removal, power failures, and hardware status events.

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What Is HUAWEI-ENTITY-TRAP-MIB?

HUAWEI-ENTITY-TRAP-MIB is the base trap/notification definition module for Huawei's DataCom (routing and switching) product line, focused on physical hardware fault and inventory-change events. It defines SNMP notifications rather than polled counters, covering events like card/board insertion and removal, power supply failures, and other hardware status changes. Its core purpose is fault monitoring of hardware: it lets an NMS receive asynchronous alerts the moment a card is pulled, a power supply fails, or another physical component changes state, rather than requiring constant polling. It is a companion module to HUAWEI-ENTITY-EXTENT-MIB and the standard ENTITY-MIB, since its traps typically reference the entity physical indexes defined there. It is deployed as part of the trap-receiving configuration on Huawei routers/switches feeding into an NMS or fault-management system for real-time hardware alerting. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the HUAWEI-ENTITY-TRAP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • Huawei routers
  • Huawei switches (DataCom product line)

Monitoring Examples

An NMS configured as an SNMP trap receiver would listen for entity-related notifications from this MIB and correlate the referenced entity physical index with the standard ENTITY-MIB tables to identify exactly which slot or power supply triggered the event. Receiving a card-removal trap for a slot that should be populated would immediately flag an unplanned hardware pull, and a power-supply-failure trap would trigger redundancy failover alerts. Because this module defines traps rather than polled tables, monitoring here is event-driven rather than based on ongoing counters.

What Can Be Monitored

  • card/board insertion and removal events
  • power supply failure alerts
  • hardware status change notifications
Imported Objects

From ENTITY-MIB

entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalNameOBJECT-TYPE

From HUAWEI-BASE-TRAP-MIB

hwBaseTrapEventTypeOBJECT-TYPE
hwBaseTrapProbableCauseOBJECT-TYPE
hwBaseTrapSeverityOBJECT-TYPE

From HUAWEI-MIB

hwDatacommOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IANA-ITU-ALARM-TC-MIB

IANAItuProbableCause

From IF-MIB

ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE
ifNameOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
OIDs

RFC description

Huawei base trap definition MIB for DataCom product entity and interface trap notifications.

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