NORTEL-OPTICAL-GENERIC-MIB

Description: Provides generic alarm and inventory objects common to Nortel optical transport network elements.

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NORTEL-OPTICAL-GENERIC-MIB is the top-level, common MIB branch shared across Nortel's optical transport network element product families (including the OPTera Metro line). It does not define instrumentation itself but provides the shared object identifier subtree from which product-specific alarm and inventory MIBs for individual optical platforms descend. As a generic umbrella module it enables consistent hardware/software status monitoring across the Nortel optical portfolio once the product-specific child MIBs are loaded, covering things like card inventory, alarm severity, and equipment state in those dependent modules. It is explicitly a prerequisite dependency for other Nortel optical MIBs such as those under the opterametro branch. This module is used in carrier and enterprise optical transport networks running Nortel/Ciena-heritage DWDM and SONET/SDH transmission equipment. Engineers can download the NORTEL-OPTICAL-GENERIC-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

The only sample object present, opterametro, is an OID branch identifier rather than a monitorable data object, so there is no runtime polling scenario within this module itself. Administrators load this generic MIB so that MIB compilers and NMS platforms can resolve the parent OID tree referenced by the actual instrumentation defined in product-specific Nortel Optical MIBs.

Nortel vendor-private MIB providing generic management objects for optical networking equipment.