NOKIA-ALCHEMYOS-HARDWARE-MIB

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Organization: Nokia Internet Communications.

Last Updated: 2001-01-18

Category: Hardware Inventory

Description: Monitors Nokia AlchemyOS appliance hardware components including CPU, memory, and interface status.

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What Is NOKIA-ALCHEMYOS-HARDWARE-MIB?

NOKIA-ALCHEMYOS-HARDWARE-MIB is a Nokia vendor MIB for monitoring the hardware and OS-level status of appliances running Nokia's AlchemyOS, used in Nokia's security/networking appliances. It exposes hardware health data including primary and secondary CPU load, cryptographic accelerator ("Hifn") load, general system I/O load, and memory usage, along with OS identification objects like OS name, version, and build information. This MIB is squarely focused on hardware and software status monitoring: it directly reports CPU load, memory usage, I/O load, and system uptime, making it a core health-check MIB for detecting performance bottlenecks or resource exhaustion on the appliance. It is a standalone platform MIB but is typically used alongside standard MIB-II (system group) objects for baseline device identification. It is deployed in environments running Nokia AlchemyOS-based security appliances where continuous CPU/memory/uptime monitoring is needed to catch overload conditions before they impact traffic processing, and administrators can download the NOKIA-ALCHEMYOS-HARDWARE-MIB file to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in NOKIA-ALCHEMYOS-HARDWARE-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

Nokia AlchemyOS-based security/firewall appliance

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll hardwarePrimaryCPU and hardwareSecondaryCpu to track dual-CPU utilization, alongside hardwareMemoryUsage to detect memory exhaustion, and hardwareHifnLoadAve to check the hardware crypto-acceleration engine's load if IPSec processing is heavy. Polling hardwareUpTime reveals whether the appliance has recently rebooted, while hardwareOSVersion and hardwareConfigVersion confirm the running software build matches the expected baseline after a maintenance window. A sustained spike in hardwareIOLoad combined with high CPU readings would indicate the appliance is becoming a performance bottleneck under traffic load.

What Can Be Monitored

primary/secondary CPU load
memory usage
I/O load
crypto accelerator (Hifn) load average
system uptime
OS name/version and build info

Imported Objects

From NOKIA-ALCHEMYOS-MIB

alchemyOSModules	OBJECT-IDENTITY
alchemyOSProducts	OBJECT-IDENTITY
hardware	OBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using hardwarePrimaryCPU OID:

Select a Nokia AlchemyOS-based security/firewall appliance as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type hardwarePrimaryCPU into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the primary CPU load (percent). On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is an Integer32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if utilization exceeds 85%, a common warning threshold before sustained high load affects performance. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
I32 hardwarePrimaryCPUEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.1	Integer32	read-only	Primary CPU load (percent).
I32 hardwareSecondaryCpu	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.2	Integer32	read-only	Secondary CPU load (percent). Value -1 indicates that second CPU is not present.
I32 hardwareHifnLoadAve	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.3	Integer32	read-only	Cryptographic co-processor load (percent). Value -1 indicates that cryptographic co-processor is not present.
I32 hardwareMemoryUsage	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.4	Integer32	read-only	Percent of memory currently in use.
I32 hardwarIOLoad	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.5	Integer32	read-only	Packets per second sent and received.
I32 hardwareUpTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.6	Integer32	read-only	Uptime in seconds.
STR hardwareOSName	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.7	DisplayString	read-only	Operating system name.
STR hardwareOSVersion	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.8	DisplayString	read-only	Operating system (kernel) version.
STR hardwareCompileUser	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.9	DisplayString	read-only	What user compiled this kernel.
STR hardwareCompileDate	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.10	DisplayString	read-only	Compile date and time.
STR hardwareCompileHost	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.11	DisplayString	read-only	Computer where this build was made.
I32 hardwareConfigVersion	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.2.2.12	Integer32	read-only	Version of config file (number of config saves).
nokiaAlchemyOSHardwareMIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.45.5.4			Hardware (and version) MIB module.

RFC description

Monitors hardware resources including CPU load, memory usage, cryptographic co-processor, and system uptime on Nokia AlchemyOS systems.

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