All MIBs › SYMMENTITYPHYSICALEXT
Organization: Symmetricom
Last Updated: 2016-06-15
Category: Timing and Synchronization
Description: Extends Symmetricom physical entity attributes with platform-specific hardware component details.
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What Is SYMMENTITYPHYSICALEXT?
SYMMENTITYPHYSICALEXT is a Symmetricom (a timing/synchronization equipment vendor, later part of Microsemi) proprietary MIB that extends the standard ENTITY-MIB's physical-entity table with additional platform-specific hardware component attributes for Symmetricom timing/clock devices. Although no object names were supplied in this dataset, an entity-extension MIB of this kind typically adds vendor-specific fields such as component serial number, hardware revision, or part-number detail layered on top of each entPhysicalIndex entry. Its purpose is squarely hardware-inventory and status monitoring: it lets an administrator retrieve richer identity/version detail for each physical component (chassis, module, oscillator, power supply) in a timing device beyond what the standard ENTITY-MIB alone provides. It explicitly depends on and extends the IETF standard ENTITY-MIB (RFC 6933/4133), indexing its own objects by the same entPhysicalIndex. It is deployed on Symmetricom precision timing/synchronization equipment (e.g., GPS-disciplined clocks, NTP/PTP timing servers) used in telecom and financial-services environments requiring accurate time distribution. Engineers can download the SYMMENTITYPHYSICALEXT file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Symmetricom precision timing/synchronization device (e.g., GPS-disciplined clock, NTP/PTP server)
Monitoring Examples
No sample object names were available for this module, so specific identifiers cannot be provided; based on its role as an ENTITY-MIB extension, an administrator would typically correlate entPhysicalIndex values from the standard ENTITY-MIB with this module's extension objects to pull additional hardware detail - such as component revision or part number - for a specific module or oscillator in the timing chassis. This would be used, for example, to confirm the exact hardware revision of an installed oscillator module when diagnosing a timing-accuracy issue.
What Can Be Monitored
- physical component hardware revision/identification (extended)
- component part/serial number detail (extended)
Imported Objects
From ENTITY-MIB
| entPhysicalEntry | OBJECT-TYPE |
| 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 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
From SYMM-COMMON-SMI
| symmEntPhysicalExtension | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Symantec vendor-private MIB extending entity physical table for hardware inventory and monitoring.
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