All MIBs › IANA-ITU-ALARM-TC-MIB
Organization: IANA
Last Updated: 2014-05-22
Category: Alarm and Event Management, Textual Conventions and Registries
Description:
Defines ITU Alarm textual conventions based on ITU Recommendations M.3100, X.733, and X.736 for use in alarm management MIBs.
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| mib-2 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
What Is IANA-ITU-ALARM-TC-MIB?
IANA-ITU-ALARM-TC-MIB is a vendor-neutral IETF/IANA standards-based textual-conventions module, published as RFC 3877, defining the ITU Alarm textual convention based on ITU-T Recommendations M.3100, X.733, and X.736 for representing alarm types in a way expected to require regular extension by IANA. It exposes no monitoring data itself; it standardizes how alarm type/category values are encoded so that alarm-reporting MIBs across vendors can use a consistent, extensible enumeration. It underpins fault-monitoring MIBs generally rather than exposing hardware/software status objects like uptime or temperature directly, but is foundational to any standards-based alarm/fault MIB reporting equipment or software alarm conditions. It is explicitly built on the ITU-T M.3100, X.733, and X.736 alarm model recommendations and is maintained by IANA for extensibility. Because it defines no scalars or tables of its own, an IANA-ITU-ALARM-TC-MIB reference is mainly consulted to trace the IMPORTS clause of another vendor's alarm MIB back to this shared enumeration. It is deployed as a supporting module wherever standards-based alarm-reporting MIBs, such as the IETF Alarm MIB (RFC 3877), are implemented, across any vendor's telecom or network equipment.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
- any network element implementing standards-based alarm reporting
Monitoring Examples
This module defines only the ITU Alarm TEXTUAL-CONVENTION enumeration, with no sample_objects and no runtime tables provided, so there is nothing here to poll directly. Alarm-reporting MIBs, such as the IETF ALARM-MIB, import this convention to classify a raised alarm's type consistently across vendors. No monitoring scenario is fabricated since this is a types-only, IANA-maintained support module.
OIDs
| OID symbolic | OID numeric | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ianaItuAlarmNumbers | 1.3.6.1.2.1.119 | The MIB module defines the ITU Alarm textual convention for objects expected to require regular extension. Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). The initial version of this MIB module was published in RFC 3877. For full legal notices see the RFC itself. Supplementary information may be available on: http://www.ietf.org/copyrights/ianamib.html |
RFC description
IANA textual conventions for ITU alarm definitions per RFC 3877.
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