IFOTEC-SMI

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Organization: IFOTEC

Last Updated: 2020-07-28

Category: Domain: Optical Transport, Textual Conventions and Registries, Vendor: IFOTEC

Description: IFOTEC MIB defining the Structure of Management Information and OID registration for all IFOTEC SNMP modules.

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What Is IFOTEC-SMI?

This is IFOTEC's Structure of Management Information (SMI) MIB, the root/registration module for IFOTEC's enterprise MIB tree rather than a monitoring MIB in its own right; it defines the OID arcs used by other IFOTEC device MIBs. It does, however, expose a basic system table with product family, serial number, date code, firmware, and bootloader version information alongside a description string, giving it a minimal inventory role. Its practical monitoring utility is chiefly software/hardware inventory: confirming which IFOTEC product family a device belongs to and what firmware/bootloader version it is running, useful for tracking devices needing an upgrade. As the SMI root module, essentially every other IFOTEC-specific MIB depends on the OID arcs (ifoSysProductIndex and related registration branches) defined here. It is typically deployed as a supporting module defining the IFOTEC-SMI OID tree alongside IFOTEC's actual product MIBs (e.g. for optical/telecom transmission equipment) on IFOTEC network devices.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in IFOTEC-SMI. 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

IFOTEC optical/telecom transmission equipment

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would walk ifoSysTable (keyed by ifoSysIndex) to read ifoSysFamilly, ifoSysSerialNumber, ifoSysFirmware, and ifoSysBootloader, confirming exactly which IFOTEC product family and firmware revision a given device is running before applying a firmware upgrade. ifoSysDescr and ifoSysDateCode provide additional descriptive and manufacturing-date context useful for asset inventory, though as an SMI root module this MIB itself carries little runtime fault/performance data beyond this basic system identification table.

What Can Be Monitored

product family identification
serial number
firmware version
bootloader version
system description/date code

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using ifoTempValue OID:

Select an IFOTEC optical/telecom transmission equipment (root registration) 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 ifoTempValue into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. The value of the sensor in 0.1 degree Celsius. 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 reported value exceeds the level expected for healthy operation, since sustained high temperature often precedes thermal shutdown or hardware degradation. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
ifotec	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362			The Structure of Management Information for the IFOTEC enterprise.
ifotecGeneral	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101			General informations about the IFOTEC product.
ifotecSystem	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1			IFOTEC System informations.
I32 ifoSysProductIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.1	Integer32	read-only	The ifoSysIndex of the product.
ifoSysTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2		not-accessible	list of systems present.
ifoSysEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1		not-accessible	An entry containing system informations.
I32 ifoSysIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.1	Integer32	not-accessible	A unique value, greater than zero, for each product.
STR ifoSysRef	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.2	DisplayString	read-only	Product reference
STR ifoSysInfo	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.3	DisplayString	read-only	Product information
STR ifoSysFamilly	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	Product familly
STR ifoSysSerialNumber	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.5	DisplayString	read-only	Serial number
STR ifoSysDateCode	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.6	DisplayString	read-only	Date code
STR ifoSysFirmware	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.7	DisplayString	read-only	Firmware version
STR ifoSysBootloader	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.8	DisplayString	read-only	Bootloader version
STR ifoSysDescr	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.9	DisplayString	read-only	Administratively-assigned name (sysName)
STR ifoSysLocation	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.10	DisplayString	read-only	Physical location (sysLocation)
STR ifoSysContact	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.11	DisplayString	read-only	Physical location (sysContact)
TIK ifoSysUpTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.2.1.12	TimeTicks	read-only	The time (in hundredths of a second) since the network management portion of the system was last re-initialized (sysUpTime).
ifoSysMibTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.3		not-accessible	list of mibs presents in the system.
ifoSysMibEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.3.1		not-accessible	An entry containing mib informations.
I32 ifoSysORIfoSysIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.3.1.1	Integer32	not-accessible	The index value which uniquely identifies the system in ifoSysMibTable. It is the same value used by ifoSysIndex.
I32 ifoSysORIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.3.1.2	Integer32	not-accessible	A unique value, greater than zero, for each mib presents in the system.
OID ifoSysORID	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.3.1.3	OBJECT IDENTIFIER	read-only	An unique identifier to designate the mib.
STR ifoSysORDescr	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.1.3.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	Description of the mib.
ifotecTemperatures	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2			IFOTEC Temperature Sensors.
ifoTemperatureTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1		not-accessible	A list of sensors.
ifoTemperatureEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1		not-accessible	An entry containing sensor informations.
I32 ifoTempIfoSysIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.1	Integer32	not-accessible	The index value which uniquely identifies the system in ifoSysMibTable. It is the same value used by ifoSysIndex.
I32 ifoTempIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.2	Integer32	not-accessible	A unique value, greater than zero, for each temperature sensor.
STR ifoTempName	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.3	DisplayString	read-only	The name of the temperature sensor.
STR ifoTempDescr	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	The description of the temeprature sensor.
I32 ifoTempValueEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.5	Integer32	read-only	the value of the sensor in 0.1 degree Celsius.
IFO ifoTempAlarmStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.6	IfotecDataStatus	read-only	Indicates the sensor alarm status.
I32 ifoTempLowThldAlarm	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.7	Integer32	read-only	the value in 0.1 degree Celsius of the low threshold alarm.
I32 ifoTempHighThldAlarm	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.8	Integer32	read-only	the value in 0.1 degree Celsius of the high threshold alarm.
I32 ifoTempLowThldWarning	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.9	Integer32	read-only	the value in 0.1 degree Celsius of the low threshold warning.
I32 ifoTempHighThldWarning	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.101.2.1.1.10	Integer32	read-only	the value in 0.1 degree Celsius of the high threshold warning.
ifotecModules	1.3.6.1.4.1.21362.102			ifotecModules provides a root object identifier from which MODULE-IDENTITY values may be assigned.

RFC description

Defines the enterprise structure and base objects for IFOTEC product management information.

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