HUAWEI-SEP-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd.

Last Updated: 2009-11-17

Category: Technology: High Availability, Technology: Switching/L2, Vendor: Huawei

Description: Huawei SEP (Smart Ethernet Protection) MIB for managing Ethernet ring protection instances and topology change notifications.

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What Is HUAWEI-SEP-MIB?

HUAWEI-SEP-MIB is a Huawei enterprise MIB for Smart Ethernet Protection (SEP), a Huawei ring-based Ethernet protection protocol comparable to ERPS, used on carrier and enterprise switches. It exposes objects describing SEP ring instances, ring topology, and protection-switching state, along with notifications for topology changes. Its main monitoring role is fault and resiliency visibility: it reports when a ring's topology changes (e.g., a link break triggering a protection switch), giving direct insight into the health of the Ethernet ring and whether traffic has failed over to a protection path. It is a Huawei-proprietary module positioned alongside the hwDatacomm MIB tree and is functionally related to (though independent of) the ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet ring protection standard. It is deployed on Huawei switches built into ring topologies for resilient metro/enterprise Ethernet networks. Engineers can download the HUAWEI-SEP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • Huawei carrier/enterprise switch

Monitoring Examples

A typical SEP structure would include a ring instance table (e.g., hwSepRingTable/Entry) with fields for ring state and protected/failed link, plus a topology-change-notification trap. An administrator would monitor ring state to detect when a link failure forces a topology change, and a switch that lingers in a 'protection active' state signals an unresolved break in the ring that needs repair.

What Can Be Monitored

  • SEP ring instance state
  • ring topology change events
  • protection switching status
  • protected link/port state
Imported Objects

From HUAWEI-MIB

hwDatacommOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

Integer32
InterfaceIndex
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
ifNameOBJECT-TYPE

From P-BRIDGE-MIB

EnabledStatus

From Q-BRIDGE-MIB

VlanId

From SNMPv2-CONF

NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

NOTIFICATION-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
OIDs

RFC description

Manages service extension port (SEP) segments and packet counters for Huawei devices.

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