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Last Updated: 1997--0-5-
Category: Switch Management - General
Description: Provides switch system identity, firmware version, hardware revision, and operational status.
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What Is SWITCH-INFO-MIB?
SWITCH-INFO-MIB is a generic switch identity module that exposes basic vendor and product information for a managed switch, including vendor name, product name, model name/ID, and copyright/version details. It is primarily an inventory/identification MIB rather than one covering deep performance or environmental data. Its relevance to hardware/software status monitoring is limited to confirming device identity and firmware/model information, which is useful for asset inventory and for correlating alerts from other MIBs to the correct hardware model. It does not appear to have notable dependencies on other MIBs, functioning as a self-describing identity block. It is deployed across a range of managed switches (often white-label/ODM products) that expose this identity block alongside their main management MIBs, and consulting a SWITCH-INFO-MIB reference helps engineers map these identity objects to the correct vendor documentation.
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Supported Devices
- managed network switch (vendor identity/inventory module)
Monitoring Examples
An admin polls vendorName, vendorProductName, and vendorModelName to programmatically identify the switch model behind an SNMP endpoint, using vendorModelId to distinguish between hardware revisions of an otherwise identically named product. This is typically used during inventory discovery to route a device to the correct vendor-specific monitoring template rather than to detect a fault condition directly.
What Can Be Monitored
- vendor name
- product name
- model name/ID
- copyright/version info
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString |
From TELESYN-ATI-TC
| switchVendor | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Provides vendor information including product name, model ID and copyright for network switches.
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