All MIBs › TIMER-CONTROL-MIB
Organization: Netgear
Last Updated: 2009-12-02
Description: TIMER-CONTROL-MIB module
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What Is TIMER-CONTROL-MIB?
This MIB module supports a generic 'Timer Control' feature, used to schedule or manage timed operations (such as periodic tasks or scheduled configuration/state changes) on the host network device. Without vendor-specific object names available in the source data, it can be understood to expose configuration data for defined timers (interval, start/stop conditions) and their current operational state. It functions as a software-status monitoring tool, letting administrators verify whether a scheduled timer-driven feature is active, pending, or has fired, rather than exposing any hardware sensor data. No explicit dependency on other MIBs is indicated by the available module description. It would typically be deployed on a network device that supports scheduled/timed feature activation as part of its broader management or automation capabilities. Engineers can download the TIMER-CONTROL-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- device type not identifiable from available data; likely a vendor-specific feature MIB
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would poll a timer control table to check whether a configured timer is currently active, and inspect its configured interval and next-fire time to confirm scheduled tasks (e.g., timed reboots or timed policy changes) are proceeding as configured. If a timer's state does not advance as expected, this would indicate the underlying scheduling feature has stalled. Because no explicit object names were captured for this MIB, monitoring in practice would target *TimerStatus and *TimerConfig style objects.
What Can Be Monitored
- timer configuration (interval/schedule)
- timer operational state
- scheduled task execution status
Imported Objects
From Netgear-MIB
| ng700smartswitch | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
| SnmpAdminString |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| RowStatus |
OIDs
RFC description
Netgear smart switch timer control MIB for scheduling device enable/disable actions and managing timer-based operations.
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