RC-2K-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: Bay Networks, Rapid-City Group

Last Updated: 2009-03-11

Category: Nortel Enterprise Data

Description: Provides general switch management objects for the Bay Networks Rapid-City 2000 series Ethernet routing switch platform.

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What Is RC-2K-MIB?

RC-2K-MIB is a Bay Networks (later Nortel) enterprise MIB for the Rapid-City 2000 series ("rc2k") Ethernet routing switch chassis, providing general chassis and CPU management objects. It exposes hardware health data such as chassis temperature (including ambient upper/lower thresholds), chassis base MAC address and MAC address capacity, port operational status, and CPU Ethernet port details, along with device/chassis identity and firmware copy-file operations. It is squarely a hardware/software status MIB: temperature readings and port operational status let administrators detect overheating or failed ports, and rc2kCopyFile supports monitoring/managing firmware image transfers. It is a self-contained Bay Networks enterprise MIB layered over standard SNMP conventions rather than depending on IETF standard MIBs. It is deployed on legacy Bay Networks/Nortel Rapid-City 2000 series Ethernet routing switches in enterprise wiring closets or campus networks. Engineers can download the RC-2K-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in RC-2K-MIB. 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

  • Bay Networks/Nortel Rapid-City 2000 (rc2k) Ethernet routing switch

Monitoring Examples

An operator polls rc2kChassisTemperature against rc2kChassisAmbientLowerTemperature/rc2kChassisAmbientUpperTemperature to detect a chassis running outside its safe thermal envelope, and checks rc2kChassisPortOperStatus for any port entries reporting down/failed state. rc2kCpuEthernetPortTable/rc2kCpuEthernetPortEntry keyed by rc2kCpuEthernetPortIfIndex is used to confirm the management CPU's own Ethernet port is up, and rc2kCopyFile is monitored during firmware upgrade operations to confirm the image transfer completes successfully.

What Can Be Monitored

  • chassis temperature vs thresholds
  • port operational status
  • CPU Ethernet port status
  • chassis base MAC / MAC capacity
  • firmware copy-file operation
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex

From IPV6-TC

Ipv6Address

From RAPID-CITY

rc2kOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
MacAddress
RowStatus
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using rc2kChassisTemperature OID:

Select a Bay Networks/Nortel Rapid-City 2000 (rc2k) Ethernet routing switch (chassis temperature/CPU/firmware) as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type rc2kChassisTemperature into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the used to indicate the core operating temperature of the chassis. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Gauge32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the reported value exceeds the level expected for healthy operation, since sustained high temperature often precedes thermal shutdown or hardware degradation. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Enterprise MIB for RC2K platform with CPU redundancy, boot configuration, and chassis management.

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