TROPIC-WAVEKEY-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Nokia

Last Updated: 2016-02-10

Category: Nokia Optical Transport

Description: Manages Nokia Tropic wavelength key and optical channel security provisioning for DWDM transport.

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What Is TROPIC-WAVEKEY-MIB?

TROPIC-WAVEKEY-MIB is part of Nokia's Tropic optical transport product family, managing wavelength-key and optical-channel security provisioning for wavelength-division-multiplexed transport links. It belongs to the optical networking/DWDM transport technology area. Its data centers on configuration objects — wavelength key assignment and channel security provisioning — rather than general system health metrics. Though primarily a security/key-provisioning module, TROPIC-WAVEKEY-MIB SNMP monitoring in an optical transport context is also useful for checking whether an optical channel's security association or key state is healthy versus faulted, complementing hardware/software status exposed by companion Tropic MIBs such as entity and notification modules. It is designed to work alongside other Tropic-branded MIBs that share the same OID tree and reporting model. It is deployed in service-provider optical transport networks running Nokia Tropic DWDM/optical transponder equipment.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in TROPIC-WAVEKEY-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 provided for TROPIC-WAVEKEY-MIB, so a concrete polling scenario cannot be grounded in verified object names; based on the module description alone, an operator would likely check wavelength-key/channel security provisioning state to confirm an optical channel's encryption association has not dropped, but this is inferred rather than object-verified.

Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TimeStamp
TruthValue

From TROPIC-GLOBAL-REG

tnCardModulesOBJECT-IDENTITY
tnWaveKeyMIBOBJECT-IDENTITY

From TROPIC-SHELF-MIB

tnShelfIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From TROPIC-SLOT-MIB

tnSlotIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From TROPIC-TC

AluWdmDisabledEnabled
TnCommand
TnOchStatus

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using tnWaveKeyDecodeCurrentUpstreamLossOut OID:

Select a Nokia Tropic optical transport/DWDM system as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type tnWaveKeyDecodeCurrentUpstreamLossOut into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the most recently calculated point-to-point optical loss on the upstream output, in milli-dB. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is an Integer32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the loss exceeds the value expected for a healthy link (e.g. beyond -3000, i.e. -3 dB, depending on your link budget), since rising optical loss often precedes a fiber or connector problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

See also: tnWaveKeyEncodePresentNwOutputPower

OIDs

RFC description

Nokia TROPIC WaveKey optical transport management and configuration.

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