SL-SONET-SUP-PM-MIB

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Organization: Argon Networks, Inc.

Last Updated: 1998-07-13

Description: Supplemental SONET performance monitoring MIB extending RFC 2558 for ANSI T1.231-1997 compliance, adding augmented PM counters for section, line, path, and VT layers on SmartOptics SiteLight devices

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What Is SL-SONET-SUP-PM-MIB?

SL-SONET-SUP-PM-MIB is a Smartoptics-specific supplemental performance-monitoring MIB that extends the standard SONET-MIB (RFC 2558) to cover ANSI T1.231-1997 requirements not addressed by that base MIB, on its SiteLight equipment. Its data is entirely performance-monitoring in nature -- configurable threshold tables for Coding Violations (CV), Errored Seconds (ES), Severely Errored Seconds (SES), and Severely Errored Framing Seconds (SEFS) at the section, line, path, and VT layers, with both current and per-day threshold variants. Its monitoring role is squarely about detecting degrading transmission-layer performance: threshold-crossing on these counters signals a SONET link's signal quality is deteriorating (e.g. rising line error rates) before it escalates to a hard failure, making it a key performance/fault-prediction tool for SONET transport hardware. It explicitly depends on and extends the IETF SONET-MIB (RFC 2558) and follows ANSI T1.231-1997 performance-monitoring definitions. It is deployed on Smartoptics SiteLight SONET-capable transport equipment in carrier networks running SONET transmission. Engineers can download the SL-SONET-SUP-PM-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • Smartoptics SiteLight SONET transport equipment

Monitoring Examples

An operator would configure sonetSectionDefaultThresholdTable entries such as sonetSectionDefaultCVThreshold, sonetSectionDefaultESThreshold, and sonetSectionDefaultSESThreshold to set baseline alarm thresholds for a given rate, then monitor the corresponding sonetSectionThresholdTable per-interface instances for threshold crossings. Comparing current-interval thresholds against the day-based variants (sonetSectionDefaultDayCVThreshold, sonetSectionDefaultDaySESThreshold) helps distinguish a transient burst of errors from a sustained degradation. The sonetSupObjectsPath and sonetSupObjectsVT groups extend the same threshold-based PM approach down to the path and VT layers for finer-grained fault localization.

What Can Be Monitored

  • section/line/path/VT coding violations (CV)
  • errored seconds (ES)
  • severely errored seconds (SES)
  • severely errored framing seconds (SEFS)
  • per-day performance thresholds
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From PerfHist-TC-MIB

PerfCurrentCount
PerfIntervalCount
PerfTotalCount

From SL-SONET-MIB

slSonetMibMODULE-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

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

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
TruthValue

From SONET-MIB

sonetFarEndLineCurrentEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetFarEndLineIntervalEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetFarEndPathCurrentEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetFarEndPathIntervalEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetFarEndVTCurrentEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetFarEndVTIntervalEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetLineCurrentEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetLineIntervalEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetMediumEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetPathCurrentEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetPathIntervalEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetSectionCurrentEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetSectionIntervalEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetVTCurrentEntryOBJECT-TYPE
sonetVTIntervalEntryOBJECT-TYPE
OIDs

RFC description

Extends SONET-MIB (RFC 2558) with supplemental performance monitoring definitions supporting ANSI T1.231-1997 section, line, path, and VT-layer counters; from Argon Networks.

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