LANtern-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated October 06, 2026

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Description: LANtern-MIB module

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What Is LANtern-MIB?

LANtern-MIB is Novell's enterprise MIB (novell(23), predating and aligned toward RMON) for the LANtern Network Monitor, a dedicated network-monitoring appliance that watches Ethernet, Token Ring, and IP/IPX traffic. Its lanternAdmin group covers device identity and clock management — adminIdentification, adminDateAndTime and adminTimeZone, adminPowerOnTime/adminPowerOffTime recording the last power transition, and adminNetworkDataLink/adminNetworkIPAddr/adminNetworkSubnetMask configuring how the monitor attaches to and addresses itself on the segment it watches. Separate lanternEthernet, lanternTokenRing, lanternIp, lantern802dot2, lanternIpx, and lanternProtocols groups (an explicit nod to RMON-style statistics per the MIB's own 'RMON aligned' revision note) carry the actual traffic statistics for each media type and protocol. Because it predates RFC1271 RMON, LANtern-MIB is best understood as a proprietary precursor covering the same ground — segment-wide traffic and error statistics gathered by a passive probe rather than counters from an individual host or router interface. It depends only on RFC1065-SMI, RFC1215, and RFC1212 base types consistent with its 1991 origin. Anyone still operating legacy LANtern probes can consult the LANtern-MIB MIB to pull its device identity and RMON-aligned Ethernet/Token Ring/IP statistics.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in LANtern-MIB. 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

  • Novell LANtern Network Monitor (standalone RMON-precursor probe appliance)

Monitoring Examples

An operator polls adminPowerOnTime and adminPowerOffTime to confirm a LANtern probe hasn't unexpectedly restarted, then checks its lanternEthernet statistics group for the monitored segment; a recent unexplained power-on time combined with a gap or reset in the Ethernet statistics counters would indicate the probe rebooted and lost its accumulated segment history.

What Can Be Monitored

  • device identity, clock, and power-cycle timestamps
  • monitored-network IP address and subnet configuration
  • Ethernet traffic/error statistics
  • Token Ring traffic/error statistics
  • IP and IPX protocol statistics
  • 802.2 statistics
Imported Objects

From RFC1065-SMI

Counter
Gauge
IpAddress
TimeTicks
enterprises

From RFC1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1215

TRAP-TYPE
OIDs

RFC description

Network monitoring for LANtern devices, providing RMON-aligned statistics for Ethernet, Token Ring, and IP traffic.

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