All MIBs › SYMMDATEANDTIME
Organization: Symmetricom
Last Updated: 2011-07-18
Category: IP Services and Protocols, Timing and Synchronization
Description: Manages Symmetricom date and time configuration, NTP synchronization, and time source selection.
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What Is SYMMDATEANDTIME?
SYMMDATEANDTIME is a Symmetricom common MIB module that manages date, time, and synchronization-related settings on Symmetricom network timing products. It is organized into a status branch and a configuration branch, exposing the device's current date/time, synchronization source, and related time-source settings. Its monitoring value centers on software/clock status: whether the device is synchronized to its configured time source, what that source is, and the current reported date and time, which is the core status data for a timing appliance. Being a "Common" MIB, it is designed to be imported and reused across Symmetricom's various clock and time-server product lines rather than being product-specific. It is typically deployed in telecom central offices, data centers, and financial trading environments where Symmetricom GPS-disciplined clocks or NTP appliances provide a master time reference. Engineers can download the SYMMDATEANDTIME file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in SYMMDATEANDTIME. 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
- Symmetricom network time/clock appliances
- NTP/GPS-disciplined time servers
Monitoring Examples
No concrete object or table names were captured from this MIB's parsed source. In practice an administrator would poll the status node for current synchronization state and active time source, and the configuration node for time-source settings, using a drop from "synchronized" to "unsynchronized" or "holdover" as an alert that the master timing reference has been lost.
What Can Be Monitored
- clock synchronization status
- current date and time
- time source selection
- time configuration settings
Imported Objects
From ENTITY-MIB
| entPhysicalIndex | OBJECT-TYPE |
From IF-MIB
| ifIndex | OBJECT-TYPE |
| ifNumber | OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE | |
| Unsigned32 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
From SYMM-COMMON-SMI
| symmClock | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Symmetricom clock date and time management for network time synchronization and status monitoring.
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