PEM-STANDARD

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Organization: Ericsson Diax A/S - Denmark

Last Updated: 2006-02-02

Category: Environmental Monitoring

Description:

Manages Ericsson Diax power and equipment module (PEM) operational status, power feeds, and alarm conditions.

Imported Objects

From DXD-SMI

diaxMIBMODULE-IDENTITY

From PEM-STANDARD-TC

IANAItuEventType
IANAItuProbableCause
ItuPerceivedSeverity

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString

From SNMPv2-CONF

OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

What Is PEM-STANDARD?

PEM-STANDARD models power and equipment module (PEM) status for Ericsson's Diax access/transmission platform, using an ITU-T X.733-style standard alarm reporting model. Its categories are entirely fault/alarm-oriented: managed-object class and instance identifiers, perceived severity, probable cause, and alarm sequencing/timing for the power module and its power feeds. It is built explicitly for monitoring hardware status — power feed alarms, alarm severity escalation or clearing, and probable-cause codes tied to specific equipment instances — functioning as a structured power-supply/equipment health reporting mechanism rather than exposing counters. It follows the ITU-T X.733 alarm model (managedObjectClass/Instance, perceivedSeverity, probableCause), a pattern shared across several Ericsson standard-alarm MIBs. It is deployed on Ericsson Diax network elements at telecom sites, monitored by an EMS/NMS for power and equipment alarm conditions. PEM-STANDARD SNMP monitoring is typically carried out by an EMS/NMS that both polls managedObjectInstance rows and listens for the alarm traps this MIB defines.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in PEM-STANDARD. 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.

What Can Be Monitored

  • alarm perceived severity
  • alarm probable cause
  • power feed/equipment alarm events
  • alarm event sequence and timestamp

Supported Devices

  • Ericsson Diax access/transmission network element
  • telecom power and equipment module (PEM)

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll or trap-receive rows keyed by managedObjectInstance to see which PEM hardware component raised an alarm, with perceivedSeverity indicating whether it's critical, major, minor, or a clearing event, and probableCause narrowing it to something like a power feed failure. sequenceNumber and eventTime let a management station order and correlate alarm events chronologically when multiple power-related alarms fire in a short window. A rising perceivedSeverity on a managedObjectClass tied to a specific power feed instance would tell an admin that PEM power redundancy on that Diax node is degrading.

OIDs
OID symbolicOID numericTypeAccessDescription
pemStandardObjects1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500This document describe the standard alarm objects.
alarmObjects1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.1
STR managedObjectClass1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.1.1DisplayStringaccessible-for-notifySpecifies the class of the Managed Object issuing the alarm
STR managedObjectInstance1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.1.2DisplayStringaccessible-for-notifySpecifies the specific instance of the Managed Object
C32 sequenceNumber1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.1.3Counter32accessible-for-notifySpecifies a unique trap/notification number.
ITU perceivedSeverity1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.1.4ItuPerceivedSeverityaccessible-for-notifyITU perceived severity values as per [M.3100] and [X.733].
DAT eventTime1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.1.5DateAndTimeaccessible-for-notifyA date-time specification. field octets contents range ----- ------ -------- ----- 1 1-2 year 0..65536 2 3 month 1..12 3 4 day 1..31 4 5 hour 0..23 5 6 minutes 0..59 6 7 seconds 0..60 (use 60 for leap-second) 7 8 deci-seconds 0..9 8 9 direction from UTC '+' / '-' 9 10 hours from UTC 0..11 10 11 minutes from UTC 0..59 For example, Tuesday May 26, 1992 at 1:30:15 PM EDT would be displayed as: 1992-5-26,13:30:15.0,-4:0 Note that if only local time is known, then timezone information (fields 8-10) is not present.
IAN eventTypePem1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.1.6IANAItuEventTypeaccessible-for-notifyRepresents the event type values for the alarms as per [M.3100], [X.733] and [X.736]
IAN probableCause1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.1.7IANAItuProbableCauseaccessible-for-notifyITU probable cause values as per [M.3100], [X.733] and [X.736].
alarmObjectsGroups1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.2
alarmObjectsGroup1.3.6.1.4.1.193.72.500.2.1Objects for the Alarm Group

FAQ

What does PEM-STANDARD track for Ericsson Diax power modules?
It models the power and equipment module (PEM) status using an ITU-T X.733-style alarm framework, exposing managed-object class/instance identifiers, perceived severity, probable cause codes, and alarm sequencing/timestamps for power feeds and equipment. An EMS/NMS uses it to detect and prioritize power-feed alarms, judging urgency from the perceived severity and probable cause.

How would an EMS use PEM-STANDARD to monitor a power feed alarm on a Diax network element?
The EMS polls managedObjectInstance rows and listens for the alarm traps this MIB defines; when a power feed alarm is raised, the perceivedSeverity and probableCause fields tell the operator how serious it is and why, while the alarm sequence/timestamp objects let them track when it was raised and cleared.

RFC description

Power Endpoint Monitoring MIB for managing power supply and electrical device monitoring in network infrastructure.

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