SCTE-HMS-PROPERTY-MIB

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Organization: SCTE HMS Working Group

Last Updated: 2004-03-29

Category: SCTE HMS Cable Headend

Description: Defines SCTE HMS equipment property objects including installation site and asset data.

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What Is SCTE-HMS-PROPERTY-MIB?

SCTE-HMS-PROPERTY-MIB is part of the SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) Hybrid Management Sublayer (HMS) family of standards MIBs used across cable/broadband headend and outside-plant equipment such as transponders, line monitors, RF amplifiers, fiber nodes, and power supplies. It defines a generic "property" mechanism that can attach alarm-threshold metadata (high-high, high, low, low-low, deadband) to any parameter identified by its own OID, plus a current-alarm-state table. Its core purpose is fault/alarm monitoring of hardware conditions across HMS-managed cable plant elements -- letting a management system know when an analog parameter such as RF signal level, temperature, or voltage crosses a configured threshold, and view which alarms are currently active. It is explicitly designed to be layered over other SCTE HMS MIBs (and any vendor-specific parameter MIB), since the propertyTable is indexed by the OID of the target parameter rather than defining sensors itself. It is deployed throughout cable TV/broadband HFC networks, in headend and node equipment supporting the SCTE HMS management architecture, where this SCTE-HMS-PROPERTY-MIB reference underpins threshold-based alarm monitoring across HMS-managed parameters.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in SCTE-HMS-PROPERTY-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

  • cable/broadband HFC network element (transponder, line monitor, RF amplifier, fiber node, power supply)

Monitoring Examples

An operator would populate propertyTable/propertyEntry rows keyed by parameterOID to attach analogAlarmHIHI, analogAlarmHI, analogAlarmLO, and analogAlarmLOLO thresholds to a specific hardware parameter defined in another HMS MIB, then poll currentAlarmTable/currentAlarmEntry and currentAlarmState to see whether that parameter has crossed into an alarm condition. A rising alarmEnable count combined with an active currentAlarmState would indicate a fiber node or amplifier drifting out of its normal operating range. Because this MIB provides the alarm-threshold framework rather than the parameters themselves, actual sensor readings come from the companion HMS MIB the parameterOID points to.

What Can Be Monitored

  • alarm enable status per parameter
  • current alarm state
  • high/high-high threshold breaches
  • low/low-low threshold breaches
  • alarm deadband setting
Imported Objects

From SCTE-HMS-ROOTS

propertyIdentOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using currentAlarmState OID:

Select a cable/broadband HFC network element, transponder/line monitor/RF amplifier/fiber node/power supply (alarm-threshold property mechanism) 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 currentAlarmState into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. The object contains the current alarm status associated with this property entry. 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 an INTEGER-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the value is anything other than 'casNominal', since that indicates the condition this object reports has changed to one worth investigating. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) HMS (Home Messaging Service) properties MIB for cable network devices.

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