All MIBs › T11-TC-MIB
Organization: T11
Last Updated: 2006-03-02
Category: Fibre Channel and Storage, Textual Conventions and Registries
Description:
Defines common textual conventions used across T11-defined Fibre Channel management MIB modules.
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| Unsigned32 | |
| mib-2 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
What Is T11-TC-MIB?
T11-TC-MIB is an IETF standards-track module (RFC 4439) defining textual conventions — shared data types and enumerations — used across the family of T11/ANSI Fibre Channel management MIB modules such as those for FC fabric, zoning, and name-server management. It is a pure convention/definition module and does not itself expose any polling objects, hardware counters, or fault traps. As such it plays no direct role in reporting uptime, temperature, or other device health metrics; its value is purely in standardizing how other Fibre Channel MIBs represent WWNs, port types, and FC-specific states. It is a foundational dependency for the broader T11 Fibre Channel MIB suite, whose modules import its types. It is used wherever Fibre Channel SAN switches, HBAs, or directors implement T11-defined SNMP management. Compiling any T11 Fibre Channel management module requires the T11-TC-MIB MIB file to be loaded first, since the WWN and port-type conventions it defines must resolve before dependent object definitions can be parsed.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer — applies to Fibre Channel SAN switches, directors, and HBAs
Monitoring Examples
This module is a conformance/textual-convention module with no runtime data objects of its own, so there is no monitoring scenario to describe; it only supplies shared type definitions imported by other Fibre Channel MIBs.
OIDs
| OID symbolic | OID numeric | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| t11TcMIB | 1.3.6.1.2.1.136 | This module defines textual conventions used in T11 MIBs. Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). This version of this MIB module is part of RFC 4439; see the RFC itself for full legal notices. |
RFC description
Fibre Channel textual conventions MIB (RFC 4044) defining T11 protocol types.
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