Nortel-Magellan-Passport-BitTransparentMIB

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Category: WAN

Description: Manages Nortel Magellan Passport bit-transparent circuit emulation service configuration and status.

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What Is Nortel-Magellan-Passport-BitTransparentMIB?

This is a Nortel Magellan Passport MIB covering the Bit-Transparent circuit-emulation service on the Passport multiservice WAN switch, which carries raw synchronous bit streams (e.g., leased-line/TDM circuit emulation) over the switch's packet-switched backbone. It defines configuration objects for bit-transparent data service (BTDS) components, including component naming, storage type, customer identifier association, and mapping to the underlying physical interface. Monitoring-wise it centers on service and circuit configuration status rather than hardware sensors: operators use row status and customer-ID tables to confirm a given bit-transparent circuit is provisioned, active, and correctly bound to its physical interface. As a Passport component MIB it depends on Nortel's broader Magellan Passport component/row-status framework shared across other Passport service MIBs. It was typically deployed by carriers using Nortel Passport switches to deliver leased-line/circuit-emulation services over a shared multiservice network, with Nortel-Magellan-Passport-BitTransparentMIB SNMP monitoring confirming circuit status.

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Supported Devices

  • Nortel Magellan Passport multiservice WAN switch

Monitoring Examples

An operator would check btdsRowStatusTable / btdsRowStatusEntry for a given btdsIndex to confirm btdsRowStatus shows the bit-transparent circuit active rather than notInService, and cross-reference btdsCidDataTable / btdsCustomerIdentifier to verify the circuit is correctly associated to the right customer. The btdsIfEntryTable / btdsIfEntryEntry ties the BTDS component to its underlying physical interface, so a fault there would explain a circuit-emulation outage reported by a customer. Since this is a legacy circuit service, the main failure mode monitored is a row falling out of the active state or an interface mapping becoming invalid.

What Can Be Monitored

  • bit-transparent circuit row/activation status
  • customer identifier association
  • underlying physical interface mapping
  • component storage type
Imported Objects

From Nortel-Magellan-Passport-StandardTextualConventionsMIB

Counter32
DisplayString
Gauge32
Integer32
InterfaceIndex
PassportCounter64
RowStatus
StorageType
Unsigned32

From Nortel-Magellan-Passport-TextualConventionsMIB

AsciiString
EnterpriseDateAndTime
Hex
Link
NonReplicated

From Nortel-Magellan-Passport-UsefulDefinitionsMIB

componentsOBJECT-IDENTITY
passportMIBsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE
OIDs

RFC description

Defines bit-transparent data service for DS1, E1, V35, and V11 channels in Nortel Passport systems supporting transparent traffic.

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