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Organization: Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2002-11-06
Category: Data Center Infrastructure Monitoring, Environmental and Power Monitoring
Description: Monitors Blue Coat appliance hardware sensor data including temperature, voltage, and fan speed.
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What Is SENSOR-MIB?
SENSOR-MIB (deviceSensorMIB) is a vendor-specific MIB from Blue Coat Systems that provides a generic framework for exposing physical sensor readings — temperature, voltage, and fan speed — on Blue Coat proxy/security appliances. It centers on the deviceSensorValueTable, indexed by deviceSensorIndex, whose entries carry deviceSensorUnits (celsius, volts, rpm, truthvalue, specialEnum), a scaled deviceSensorValue with its ExpBase10 deviceSensorScale, and an interpreted deviceSensorCode (e.g. temperature-high-critical, fan-slow-warning, voltage-low-critical) alongside deviceSensorStatus (ok/unavailable/nonoperational) and a deviceSensorTimeStamp of the last reading. A deviceSensorTrap notification, gated per-sensor by deviceSensorTrapEnabled, fires when a sensor value warrants attention. This makes the MIB a compact hardware-health layer for monitoring the physical condition of Blue Coat appliances rather than their proxy/security software behavior, and it depends on the BLUECOAT-MIB tree for its enterprise registration. Administrators can download the SENSOR-MIB file to load it into their MIB browser and poll appliance sensor health directly.
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Supported Devices
- Blue Coat proxy/security appliances (ProxySG and related hardware platforms)
Monitoring Examples
An operator polls deviceSensorValueTable and cross-references deviceSensorUnits with deviceSensorValue/deviceSensorScale to read actual fan RPM or chassis temperature; a deviceSensorCode of fan-stopped or temperature-high-severe combined with deviceSensorStatus reporting nonoperational would indicate a cooling failure requiring immediate attention.
What Can Be Monitored
- sensor value readings (temperature/voltage/rpm)
- sensor operational status
- sensor alarm code interpretation
- per-sensor trap enable flags
- sensor reading timestamp/age
Imported Objects
From BLUECOAT-MIB
| blueCoatMgmt | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION | |
| TimeStamp | |
| TruthValue |
OIDs
RFC description
Blue Coat device sensor monitoring MIB for tracking voltage, temperature, and fan RPM measurements with alarm thresholds.
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