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Organization: Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
Last Updated: 2013-06-30
Category: Hardware Inventory
Description: Monitors physical entity inventory and component hierarchy on Mellanox switches.
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What Is MELLANOX-ENTITY-MIB?
MELLANOX-ENTITY-MIB is a Mellanox Technologies enterprise MIB that extends physical entity and component inventory reporting for Mellanox switches. It exposes a physical entity table carrying a hardware GUID and ASIC revision for each managed component. It supports hardware inventory and firmware-compatibility status monitoring, letting an administrator confirm exactly which ASIC hardware revision is present in a chassis or line card before planning a firmware or hardware upgrade. It is a companion extension to the standard IETF ENTITY-MIB (RFC 6933), reusing its entPhysicalIndex to key each entry rather than duplicating the whole inventory model. It is deployed for hardware asset tracking across Mellanox switch and adapter fleets in data center and HPC environments. Engineers can download the MELLANOX-ENTITY-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Mellanox Ethernet/InfiniBand switch
Monitoring Examples
Walking mellanoxPhysicalEntityTable correlates each entity, keyed by the standard entPhysicalIndex from ENTITY-MIB, with mellanoxPhysicalEntityGUID and mellanoxPhysicalEntityAsicRev. This lets an admin confirm the ASIC hardware revision installed on a given chassis or line card, which matters when tracking hardware compatibility ahead of a firmware upgrade.
What Can Be Monitored
- physical entity GUID
- ASIC hardware revision
- physical component inventory
Imported Objects
From ENTITY-MIB
| entPhysicalIndex | OBJECT-TYPE |
From MELLANOX-SMI-MIB
| mellanoxEntity | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
OIDs
RFC description
Mellanox Entity MIB extending physical entity table with Mellanox-specific attributes like GUID and ASIC revision.
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