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Category: Nortel MsCarrier MscPassport, SNMP Agent Infrastructure
Description: Provides SNMP objects for testing and validating SNMP agent functionality on Nortel MsCarrier MscPassport switches.
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What Is Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-SnmpTestMIB?
Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-SnmpTestMIB is a vendor MIB from Nortel Networks for the MSCarrier/Passport switching platform family, dedicated to testing and validating basic SNMP agent functionality on the device. Based on the limited sample objects (an IMPORTS clause and a top-level snmpTestMIB node), it appears to provide a minimal diagnostic surface rather than a rich set of operational tables. Its monitoring relevance is narrow but useful as a basic health check: it lets a management station confirm that the SNMP agent on a Passport switch is alive and responsive, which is a fundamental precondition before trusting any other MIB data from that device, functioning much like a software-availability/liveness probe rather than reporting detailed hardware metrics. It is registered under Nortel's MsCarrier/MscPassport enterprise MIB family and depends on that broader naming/registration structure. It is deployed on Nortel Passport multiservice switching platforms used historically in carrier and enterprise core/edge networks. Engineers can download the Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-SnmpTestMIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Nortel MsCarrier/Passport multiservice switch
Monitoring Examples
Only an IMPORTS clause and the top-level snmpTestMIB node were available in the sample objects, so no specific test-object names can be honestly cited. In practice, a management system would use objects under this module to verify the SNMP agent on a Passport switch responds correctly to test queries, and a failure to respond would indicate the SNMP agent itself (rather than the underlying hardware) has become unresponsive.
What Can Be Monitored
- SNMP agent responsiveness/test status
Imported Objects
From Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-UsefulDefinitionsMIB
| mscPassportMIBs | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From RFC-1212
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OIDs
RFC description
Nortel carrier-grade MIB for SNMP testing in MsCarrier product line.
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