Nortel-Magellan-Passport-VnetNisSigMIB

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Category: Nortel Magellan Passport

Description: Provides SNMP management objects for NIS (National ISDN Specification) signaling on Nortel Magellan Passport switches.

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What Is Nortel-Magellan-Passport-VnetNisSigMIB?

This MIB manages National ISDN Specification (NIS) signaling channels within the Passport virtual network on Nortel Magellan Passport multiservice switches. It exposes sigChanNisL2Table, carrying Layer-2 (Q.921/LAPD-style) timer and counter parameters such as sigChanNisT200 and sigChanNisN200, plus sigChanNisT23 for a higher-layer signaling timer. Monitoring is directly focused on signaling-link stability: frequent T200 retransmission timer expiries or N200 retry exhaustion on a channel indicate an unstable D-channel signaling link, which can drop ISDN call signaling entirely. It depends on ITU-T Q.921/national ISDN signaling standards and the shared Passport component/RowStatus conventions. It is deployed on Passport ISDN PRI/BRI signaling channels within National ISDN-based carrier or enterprise voice/data networks. Engineers can download the Nortel-Magellan-Passport-VnetNisSigMIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • Nortel Magellan Passport multiservice switch
  • ISDN PRI/BRI signaling interface

Monitoring Examples

An engineer checks sigChanNisL2Table/sigChanNisL2Entry for a signaling channel (sigChanNisComponentName) to review sigChanNisT200 (retransmission timer) and sigChanNisN200 (retry count), which govern LAPD signaling link retries. sigChanNisT23 configures a higher-layer signaling timeout. Frequent T200 expiries or N200 retry exhaustion on a signaling channel indicates an unstable D-channel link, risking loss of ISDN call signaling on that trunk.

What Can Be Monitored

  • signaling channel L2 timer values (T200/N200)
  • signaling channel timeout configuration
  • component row status
Imported Objects

From Nortel-Magellan-Passport-StandardTextualConventionsMIB

DisplayString
RowStatus
StorageType
Unsigned32

From Nortel-Magellan-Passport-UsefulDefinitionsMIB

passportMIBsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From Nortel-Magellan-Passport-VoiceNetworkingMIB

sigChanOBJECT-IDENTITY
sigChanIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE
OIDs

RFC description

Nortel Magellan Passport VoiceNetworking signaling channel NIS MIB for managing external signaling equipment connections.

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