NTWS-BASIC-TC

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Organization: Nortel Networks

Last Updated: 2008-10-23

Category: Nortel WLAN

Description:

Defines fundamental textual conventions for system state and product type used in Nortel NTWS basic MIBs.

Imported Objects

From NTWS-ROOT-MIB

ntwsMibsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

What Is NTWS-BASIC-TC?

NTWS-BASIC-TC is a Nortel Networks Textual Convention MIB that defines shared data types, such as system operational state and product-type enumerations, used consistently across the NTWS family of Nortel wireless LAN switch MIBs, rather than exposing any monitorable objects of its own. It exists purely to standardize how status values and product identifiers are represented so that other NTWS MIBs (root, switch, and feature-specific modules) can report system state and hardware/product type in a uniform way. Because it contains only type definitions, it has no direct role in polling uptime, temperature, or traffic counters, but it underpins the state and product-type fields used elsewhere in the suite to indicate a wireless switch's operational status (normal versus faulted) and identify the hardware model. It is a foundational dependency for every other MIB in the Nortel NTWS wireless switch family, which import its textual conventions. It is used in Nortel/Avaya wireless LAN switch and access-point-controller deployments as the common typing layer underneath the operational NTWS MIBs. Loading the NTWS-BASIC-TC MIB file is typically a prerequisite step before compiling any other NTWS module into an SNMP management platform.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in NTWS-BASIC-TC. 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.

What Can Be Monitored

  • shared system operational state enumeration (used by other NTWS MIBs)
  • shared product-type identifier enumeration

Supported Devices

  • Nortel/Avaya wireless LAN switch

Monitoring Examples

Other NTWS MIBs import this module's system-state textual convention to represent, for a given wireless switch, whether it is in a normal, degraded, or faulted operational state, and its product-type convention to encode which Nortel wireless switch hardware model is reporting; a management application decodes these shared enumerated values consistently across every NTWS table that uses them.

OIDs
OID symbolicOID numericTypeAccessDescription
ntwsBasicTc1.3.6.1.4.1.45.6.1.4.12Textual Conventions used by Nortel Networks wireless switches. Copyright 2008 Nortel Networks. All rights reserved. This Nortel Networks SNMP Management Information Base Specification (Specification) embodies Nortel Networks' confidential and proprietary intellectual property. This Specification is supplied 'AS IS' and Nortel Networks makes no warranty, either express or implied, as to the use, operation, condition, or performance of the Specification.

RFC description

Avaya Networking NTWS basic textual conventions module for wireless network management definitions.

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