Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-TrunksMIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Category: Nortel Passport WAN

Description: Covers provisioning, utilization tracking, and error statistics for WAN trunks on Nortel MsCarrier Passport switches.

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What Is Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-TrunksMIB?

This vendor MIB manages WAN trunk resources on Nortel MsCarrier Passport multiservice switches, covering trunk provisioning, administrative status, and utilization/error statistics. It exposes trunk row-status/provisioning tables, per-trunk interface admin status, and packet-over-resource-statistics counters used to track trunk performance. It is used to monitor the operational health of WAN trunks — administrative/operational status, provisioning state, and utilization/error statistics that reveal congestion or failures — functioning as a hardware/link-status monitoring tool for the carrier backbone. It follows the same Nortel Passport component/row-status modeling convention shared with related Passport MIBs (e.g., shelf, voice networking), indicating a common management framework across the product family. It is deployed in legacy Nortel Passport-based WAN/carrier switching networks providing trunked interconnect between switch nodes. Carrier NOC teams rely on Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-TrunksMIB SNMP monitoring specifically to catch a degraded backbone trunk before it triggers a broader outage.

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Supported Devices

  • Nortel MsCarrier Passport multiservice switch

Monitoring Examples

An operator polls mscTrkRowStatusTable/mscTrkRowStatusEntry keyed by mscTrkIndex to confirm each trunk's provisioning row status, and checks mscTrkIfEntryTable's mscTrkIfAdminStatus to see whether a trunk interface is administratively up or down. mscTrkProvTable holds provisioning parameters, while mscTrkPorsStats exposes utilization/error statistics that would spike if a trunk experiences congestion or a physical link fault.

What Can Be Monitored

  • trunk provisioning row status
  • trunk interface admin status
  • trunk provisioning parameters
  • trunk utilization/error statistics
Imported Objects

From Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-StandardTextualConventionsMIB

Counter32
DisplayString
Gauge32
Integer32
InterfaceIndex
RowStatus
StorageType
Unsigned32

From Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-TextualConventionsMIB

AsciiString
AsciiStringIndex
FixedPoint1
NonReplicated
PassportCounter64

From Nortel-MsCarrier-MscPassport-UsefulDefinitionsMIB

mscComponentsOBJECT-IDENTITY
mscPassportMIBsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE
OIDs

FAQ

What does this MIB show about WAN trunks on a Nortel Passport switch?
It exposes trunk provisioning row-status tables, per-trunk interface admin status, and packet-over-resource-statistics counters, giving visibility into trunk provisioning state and utilization/error statistics.

How is this MIB used to spot carrier backbone congestion or failures?
An operator running a legacy Nortel MsCarrier Passport WAN would poll trunk admin/operational status and utilization/error statistics to reveal congestion or failures on individual trunks, following the same component/row-status modeling convention used across other Passport MIBs like shelf and voice networking.

RFC description

Manages WAN trunk provisioning, utilization, and error statistics on Nortel MsCarrier Passport switches.

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