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Organization: NBS
Last Updated: 2013-09-17
Category: Hardware Inventory, Products/Registration
Description: Defines NBS enterprise root OID structure and top-level registration objects.
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What Is NBS-MIB?
NBS-MIB defines textual conventions and top-level enterprise OID registration objects for a vendor's 'NBS' MIB family, along with a set of informal naming conventions (e.g. 'Persistent' versus 'Impulse' settings, 'Admin' object naming) used consistently across its dependent MIB modules. It does not itself expose device data; rather it establishes shared type definitions and documentation conventions (persistent/non-volatile configuration semantics versus one-shot 'impulse' actions) that other NBS-family MIBs follow. As a definitional/root module it has no hardware or software status objects of its own to poll for uptime, temperature, or load data. It is a structural and semantic dependency for the whole family of NBS-branded MIB modules, so keeping the NBS-MIB reference at hand is necessary since dependent modules assume its persistent/impulse naming conventions are already understood. It is deployed as a prerequisite compile-time MIB wherever NBS-family network equipment is managed via SNMP.
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Supported Devices
- NBS-family network equipment (vendor-specific)
Monitoring Examples
NBS-MIB has no sample objects because it is a textual-conventions/root module; it defines shared enumerated types and naming conventions ('Persistent' vs. 'Impulse' settings) that dependent NBS-family MIBs apply to their own configuration objects. There is no standalone monitoring scenario for this module — it must be loaded first so that the semantics and types used by the functional NBS MIBs are understood by the polling tool.
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Counter64 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-IDENTITY | |
| Unsigned32 | |
| enterprises |
From SNMPv2-TC
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
OIDs
RFC description
Network-based systems root MIB module serving as foundation for NBS device management extensions including trap control and monitoring objects.
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