IANA-ENERGY-RELATION-MIB

Description: IANA MIB defining textual conventions for describing power and energy relationships between devices per IETF energy management standards.

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IANA-ENERGY-RELATION-MIB is a vendor-neutral, IETF/IANA-maintained MIB that defines a textual convention describing power and energy relationships between devices, as part of the broader IETF energy management (EMAN) framework. Rather than exposing device-specific data itself, it provides the standardized enumeration/type used by other energy MIBs to indicate how one energy object relates to another (e.g., powers, is powered by, backs up). This makes it a foundational building-block MIB for software configuration of energy-monitoring relationships rather than a source of hardware sensor readings on its own, though it underpins monitoring of power topology status across devices that implement the EMAN model. It is explicitly a dependency for other IETF energy-management MIBs such as the ENTITY-MIB-based power/energy MIBs that reference its textual conventions. It is typically used in data center and telecom equipment power-management deployments implementing IETF energy monitoring standards across vendor-neutral infrastructure, and implementers typically consult the IANA-ENERGY-RELATION-MIB RFC for the authoritative definition of the EnergyRelation textual convention.

A monitoring system would reference the EnergyRelation textual convention defined here when reading relationship objects in an energy-monitoring MIB (such as an ENTITY-based power table) to determine, for example, that a PDU 'powers' a specific line card or that a UPS 'backs up' a rack of servers. Detecting an unexpected relationship value, or a device reporting no power-source relationship, could indicate a misconfigured power topology model in the energy-management software. Because this MIB contains only a shared type definition and no object instances of its own, it would never be polled directly but always in conjunction with a MIB that imports it.

IANA textual conventions for specifying relationships between Energy Objects including power, metering, and aggregation relationships.