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Organization: Spring Tide Networks, Inc.
Last Updated: 2000-02-16
Category: Spring Tide Networks
Description: Manages Spring Tide Networks network interface configuration, operational state, and traffic counters.
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What Is STN-IF-MIB?
STN-IF-MIB is a vendor MIB from Spring Tide Networks defining configuration, operational state, and traffic counters for network interfaces on their broadband aggregation platforms, serving as the vendor-specific complement to the standard IETF IF-MIB. It exposes per-interface administrative and operational status along with input/output traffic and error counters, giving a general view of interface health across the device's various physical and logical ports. This MIB is used for hardware/link-status monitoring: confirming interfaces are administratively up and operationally functioning, and tracking traffic volume and error rates to detect link degradation or flapping. It is designed to work alongside the standard IF-MIB (and, where applicable, STN-ATM-MIB for ATM-specific interfaces) since Spring Tide vendor interface objects typically supplement rather than replace the standards-based interface table. It depends on SPRING-TIDE-NETWORKS-SMI for its enterprise OID root. Typical deployment context is carrier broadband aggregation nodes where operators need vendor-specific interface detail beyond what generic IF-MIB counters provide. Engineers can download the STN-IF-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Spring Tide Networks broadband aggregation equipment
Monitoring Examples
No object names were captured for this MIB, but a realistic scenario would involve polling a vendor interface table (e.g., stnIfTable/stnIfEntry) for administrative/operational status and traffic counters, cross-referenced against the standard ifTable using a shared interface index. An admin would watch for an interface reporting operationally down status or a sharp rise in error counters to catch a failing aggregation trunk. Correlating STN-IF-MIB counters with STN-ATM-MIB VC-level statistics on the same physical port would help isolate whether a problem is link-wide or confined to a specific virtual circuit.
What Can Be Monitored
- interface administrative/operational state
- interface traffic counters
- interface error counters
- link status per port
Imported Objects
From IF-MIB
| InterfaceIndex |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
| stnNotification | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
| stnSystems | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Sycamore Networks interface management MIB; defines interface management objects for Sycamore routing and switching platforms.
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