UUID-TC-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor

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Organization: IETF Energy Management Working Group

Last Updated: 2013-04-05

Category: Textual Conventions and Registries

Description:

Defines textual conventions for representing Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) in SNMP MIB modules.

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

What Is UUID-TC-MIB?

UUID-TC-MIB is an IETF standards module defining textual conventions for representing Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) within SNMP MIB objects, providing a standard octet-string encoding for UUID values used elsewhere. It is a pure type-definition module with no vendor association and no device-specific management data. It exposes no runtime monitoring objects of its own — no interface, environmental, or performance data — since its sole purpose is to give other MIBs a standard way to represent UUID-valued fields (such as unique device or session identifiers). Other MIBs needing to expose a UUID-typed object (for example, unique chassis or virtualization instance identifiers) depend on this module's textual convention rather than redefining their own. It is present conceptually across any SNMP deployment where a device's MIBs need to expose a standardized unique identifier value, and engineers building a new MIB often keep the UUID-TC-MIB reference on hand when defining such fields.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in UUID-TC-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

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer or device class

Monitoring Examples

This module defines only the UUID textual convention for use by other MIBs — it has no runtime data objects of its own, so there is no monitoring scenario to describe; its role is purely to let other MIBs declare a standard UUID-typed object.

OIDs
OID symbolicOID numericTypeAccessDescription
uuidTCMIB1.3.6.1.2.1.217This MIB module defines TEXTUAL-CONVENTIONs representing Universally Unique IDentifiers (UUIDs). Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as authors of the code. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject to the license terms contained in, the Simplified BSD License set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).

RFC description

Textual Convention MIB defining UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) data types for use in SNMP management objects.

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