SL-ETH-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated October 06, 2026

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Organization: SmartOptics AS

Last Updated: 2005-08-17

Description: MIB for managing Ethernet service interface configuration, auto-negotiation, transceiver type, and performance monitoring on Smartoptics SiteLight optical transport equipment

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What Is SL-ETH-MIB?

SL-ETH-MIB is a Smartoptics SiteLight MIB covering Ethernet service interfaces carried over the platform's optical transport equipment. It exposes per-line Ethernet configuration such as auto-negotiation support and admin status, transceiver type, pause-frame settings, overall configuration/operational status, and performance-monitoring interval counters with a reset control. Its monitoring role spans both configuration verification and interface performance/hardware status: an operator checks transceiver type and auto-negotiation state to confirm the correct optic and link mode are in use, and reviews PM interval data to catch a degrading Ethernet service before it causes a customer-visible outage. It aligns conceptually with standard Ethernet-like MIB conventions (comparable to EtherLike-MIB counters) while being specific to the SiteLight platform's optical service framing. It is deployed wherever SiteLight equipment carries Ethernet services over optical transport, such as metro/enterprise optical access networks. Engineers can download the SL-ETH-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in SL-ETH-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

  • Smartoptics SiteLight optical transport equipment (Ethernet service interface)

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll ethConfigTable/ethConfigEntry (indexed by ethLineIndex) to check ethAutoNegAdminStatus and ethTransceiverType against the expected link configuration, and review ethConfigStatus to confirm the Ethernet service is operationally up. ethTimeElapsed and ethValidIntervals frame the performance-monitoring window, and issuing ethResetPm after a maintenance action clears counters for a clean baseline; ethPauseEnable/ethPauseTime show whether flow-control pausing is active on a saturated link.

What Can Be Monitored

  • auto-negotiation status and transceiver type
  • Ethernet service config/operational status
  • pause-frame enable and pause time
  • performance-monitoring interval counters
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex

From PerfHist-TC-MIB

PerfCurrentCount
PerfIntervalCount
PerfTotalCount

From SL-NE-MIB

slServiceOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using ethCurrentRxDropEvents OID:

Select a Smartoptics SiteLight optical transport equipment, Ethernet service interface (transceiver/auto-neg/PM status) 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 ethCurrentRxDropEvents 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 total number of events in which packets were dropped by the probe due to lack of Ingress resources during this sampling interval. 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 Counter64-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Manages Ethernet service configuration and performance monitoring for SmartOptics network equipment.

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