Nortel-Magellan-Passport-ShelfMIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Category: Hardware / Chassis Management, Nortel Magellan Passport

Description: Specifies SNMP objects covering physical shelf hardware inventory and status for Nortel Magellan Passport chassis switches.

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What Is Nortel-Magellan-Passport-ShelfMIB?

This Nortel vendor MIB manages physical shelf hardware inventory and status on Magellan Passport chassis-based switches, covering shelf and card-level provisioning and operational state. It exposes shelf row-status/provisioning tables (comment text, storage type) and an operational status table for shelves, following the Passport family's common component/row-status modeling pattern. It is used to monitor hardware status directly — shelf and card presence, provisioning state, and operational status — helping an operator detect a shelf or card that has gone out of service or is misprovisioned within the chassis. It shares its modeling conventions with sibling Nortel Passport MIBs (voice networking, trunks), indicating a common management architecture across the product line. It is deployed in legacy Nortel/Magellan Passport multiservice switching chassis used in carrier and enterprise WAN environments. Anyone bringing a legacy Magellan Passport chassis under SNMP management for the first time will need a Nortel-Magellan-Passport-ShelfMIB download alongside the sibling trunk and voice-networking modules to fully represent the shelf hierarchy.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in Nortel-Magellan-Passport-ShelfMIB. 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

  • Nortel Magellan Passport chassis switch

Monitoring Examples

An operator polls shelfProvTable/shelfProvEntry (keyed by shelfIndex) to review shelfCommentText and provisioning details for each shelf, and checks shelfOperTable/shelfOperEntry for the shelf's current operational status to detect a shelf that has failed or is out of service. shelfRowStatusTable's shelfRowStatus reflects whether a shelf entry is active or being provisioned, and shelfCard objects extend this to individual card status within the shelf.

What Can Be Monitored

  • shelf row status
  • shelf provisioning comment/details
  • shelf operational status
  • card status within shelf
Imported Objects

From Nortel-Magellan-Passport-StandardTextualConventionsMIB

DisplayString
Gauge32
Integer32
RowPointer
RowStatus
StorageType
Unsigned32

From Nortel-Magellan-Passport-TextualConventionsMIB

AsciiString
ExtendedAsciiString
Hex
Link
NonReplicated

From Nortel-Magellan-Passport-UsefulDefinitionsMIB

componentsOBJECT-IDENTITY
passportMIBsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE
OIDs

FAQ

What is Nortel-Magellan-Passport-ShelfMIB used for in a carrier WAN monitoring setup?
It manages physical shelf hardware inventory and status on Nortel Magellan Passport chassis switches, exposing shelf row-status/provisioning tables (comment text, storage type) and shelf operational status. An operator uses it to detect a shelf or card that has gone out of service or is misprovisioned within the chassis, in carrier and enterprise WAN environments running legacy Magellan Passport multiservice switches.

How does Nortel-Magellan-Passport-ShelfMIB relate to other Nortel Passport MIBs?
It shares its row-status/component modeling conventions with sibling Nortel Passport MIBs covering voice networking and trunks, reflecting a common management architecture across the Magellan Passport product line, so familiarity with this shelf MIB's status-table pattern helps when working with those related modules too.

RFC description

Defines SNMP objects for physical shelf hardware inventory and status on Nortel Magellan Passport chassis switches.

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