NETSERVER-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

All MIBsNETSERVER-MIB

Category: Network Management

Description: Monitors NetServer hardware health, disk array status, and system management events.

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What Is NETSERVER-MIB?

NETSERVER-MIB is an Auspex/NetServer enterprise MIB for monitoring hardware health and system status on NetServer-branded network-attached storage and file-server appliances. It exposes product identification and software version objects (axProductName, axSWVersion) alongside per-processor tables tracking busy/idle activity on the appliance's network processors (npTable, npBusyCount, npIdleCount) and their associated interfaces (npIfTable). This is explicitly a hardware/software-status MIB: administrators use it to confirm the running software version, check the number of network-processor front-side-processors (axNumNPFSP), and watch per-processor load via busy/idle counts to detect overload or a stuck processor. There is no strong stated dependency on other MIBs beyond the vendor's own Auspex enterprise tree, though npIfIndex ties processor interfaces back to standard ifIndex conventions. It is deployed on Auspex NetServer NFS/file-serving appliances in enterprise storage environments, making NETSERVER-MIB SNMP monitoring a standard part of tracking network-processor load and software version across the fleet.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in NETSERVER-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

  • Auspex NetServer NAS/file-server appliance

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll npTable entries, comparing npBusyCount to npIdleCount per npIndex to identify a network processor running consistently busy (indicating an overloaded NP handling too much file-serving traffic) versus one sitting mostly idle. axSWVersion would be checked during audits to confirm all NetServer units are running an expected, patched software release, and npIfTable/npIfIndex would be cross-referenced with standard interface counters to correlate NP load with actual network throughput on npIfifIndex.

What Can Be Monitored

  • network processor busy count
  • network processor idle count
  • number of front-side processors
  • product name and model
  • software version
  • per-processor interface index mapping
Imported Objects

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC-1215

TRAP-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter
Gauge
TimeTicks
enterprises

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
OIDs

RFC description

Auspex NetServer file server monitoring for processors, RAID, and network interfaces.

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