All MIBs › TPLINK-SYSTIME-MIB
Organization: TPLINK
Last Updated: 2012-12-13
Category: Switch and Device Management
Description: Manages TP-Link switch system clock, NTP server configuration, and timezone settings.
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What Is TPLINK-SYSTIME-MIB?
TPLINK-SYSTIME-MIB is a vendor-private MIB from TP-Link used on its managed switch line (e.g., JetStream/SafeStream series) to configure and inspect the device's system clock. It exposes configuration-style data rather than performance counters: NTP server address, timezone offset, and daylight-saving-time settings. Its main monitoring value is confirming that a device's time base is correctly configured and synchronized, since accurate clocks underpin reliable event-log timestamps, certificate validation, and cross-device event correlation, making it an indirect but important piece of overall device health/configuration monitoring. It has no significant dependency on other MIBs beyond the standard SNMPv2 framework used for object indexing. It is typically deployed in SMB and mid-size network environments where TP-Link managed switches are polled via SNMP alongside other configuration MIBs to keep fleet-wide clocks aligned. Engineers can download the TPLINK-SYSTIME-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- TP-Link managed switch
Monitoring Examples
No sample objects were provided for this module, so specific object names cannot be confirmed, but based on the description an admin would expect to poll scalar objects for the configured NTP server IP and timezone/DST settings. Checking these values across a switch fleet would reveal a device pointed at an unreachable or wrong NTP server, or a timezone misconfiguration causing skewed log timestamps relative to other network equipment. This remains a general characterization since no concrete object names were supplied.
What Can Be Monitored
- configured NTP server address
- system timezone setting
- daylight saving time configuration
- clock synchronization state
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| IpAddress | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From TPLINK-MIB
| tplinkMgmt | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Manages system time configuration for TP-Link devices, including manual time setup and NTP client settings.
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