All MIBs › JUNIPER-EVENT-MIB
Organization: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Last Updated: 2006-08-16
Category: Alarm and Event Management, Vendor: Juniper
Description: Provides managed objects for event logging and notification management on Juniper Networks routing and switching platforms.
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What Is JUNIPER-EVENT-MIB?
JUNIPER-EVENT-MIB is a Juniper Networks enterprise MIB providing generic event logging and notification management across Juniper routing and switching platforms. It exposes objects representing logged system events and their attributes, along with SNMP notifications that fire when significant events occur on the device. As a fault/event-monitoring MIB, its core purpose is to surface software and system-level events -- errors, warnings, state changes -- so an administrator can be alerted to problems without having to poll every individual feature-specific MIB. It is a general-purpose Juniper enterprise extension that underlies or complements many other Juniper feature MIBs (such as configuration management and MAC notification) by providing a common event/trap framework. Typical deployment is any Juniper router or switch where centralized event-driven alerting is configured via an SNMP trap receiver or NMS. Engineers can download the JUNIPER-EVENT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Juniper router
- Juniper switch
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would subscribe to the event notifications from this MIB and poll any accompanying event-log table to see the most recent system events, catching, for example, a hardware fault or software process restart reported as a generic event. No sample objects were extracted for this module, so exact table/column names are unconfirmed, but the module description confirms its scope is generic event notification. This MIB is best used as a catch-all alerting mechanism rather than a source of detailed performance counters.
What Can Be Monitored
- system event log entries
- event notifications/traps
- event severity/type
- recent system state changes
Imported Objects
From JUNIPER-SMI
| jnxEventNotifications | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
| jnxMibs | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE | |
| Unsigned32 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString |
OIDs
RFC description
Juniper enterprise event notification system for op-script and event-policy traps with attribute-value pair definitions.
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