TROPIC-NOTIFICATION-MIB

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Organization: Nokia

Last Updated: 2016-07-13

Category: Nokia Optical Transport

Description: Defines Nokia Tropic SNMP trap notifications for optical transport network faults and state changes.

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What Is TROPIC-NOTIFICATION-MIB?

TROPIC-NOTIFICATION-MIB defines the SNMP trap/notification framework for Nokia's Tropic optical transport product line, covering alarms, conditions, events, and an SNMP trap buffer. It belongs to the optical networking/DWDM transport technology area. Its data is entirely faults/traps-oriented — it structures how alarms and state-change events raised elsewhere in the Tropic MIB suite are packaged and delivered as SNMP notifications, plus a buffered trap history mechanism. TROPIC-NOTIFICATION-MIB SNMP monitoring is therefore centered on trap delivery and recovery rather than on providing status objects to poll directly. It is explicitly designed for real-time fault monitoring: alerting operators to hardware faults, optical signal degradation, or configuration/state changes on Tropic optical transport equipment, using the trap buffer to help recover notifications missed during a management-station outage. It depends on companion Tropic MIB modules, such as entity/inventory MIBs, that define the physical/logical objects referenced by each alarm condition. It is deployed in service-provider optical transport networks running Nokia Tropic DWDM/optical transponder platforms.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in TROPIC-NOTIFICATION-MIB. 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

  • Nokia Tropic optical transport/DWDM equipment

Monitoring Examples

No sample objects were supplied for TROPIC-NOTIFICATION-MIB, so specific object names cannot be verified; conceptually an NMS would subscribe to traps referencing alarm/condition state on a Tropic network element and consult the SNMP trap buffer to retrieve any notifications missed during a connectivity gap, but the exact object names cannot be confirmed without the module's data definitions.

Imported Objects

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TruthValue

From TROPIC-GLOBAL-REG

tnNotificationMIBOBJECT-IDENTITY
tnSystemModulesOBJECT-IDENTITY

From TROPIC-SLOT-MIB

tnSlotProgrammedTypeOBJECT-TYPE

From TROPIC-TC

TnCondition
TnEntityType
TnTrapCategory
OIDs

FAQ

How does TROPIC-NOTIFICATION-MIB support real-time fault alerting on Nokia Tropic optical transport equipment?
It defines the SNMP trap/notification framework for the Tropic optical transport product line — alarms, conditions, and events — so that hardware faults, optical signal degradation, or state changes raised elsewhere in the Tropic MIB suite get packaged and delivered as SNMP notifications. A service provider running Tropic DWDM equipment relies on this to get alerted the moment a transponder or optical path develops a fault.

What happens to Tropic alarm notifications if the management station is briefly unreachable?
The MIB includes an SNMP trap buffer that helps recover notifications missed during a management-station outage, so alarms raised on a Tropic optical transport device while the NMS was down aren't simply lost — they can be retrieved once connectivity is restored.

RFC description

Defines SNMP trap notifications for Nokia TROPIC optical and xWDM network elements.

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