VALERE-DC-POWER-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Valere Power Inc.

Last Updated: 2005-12-02

Category: Power and Environmental Monitoring

Description: Monitors Valere DC power system rectifiers, batteries, load current, and alarm conditions.

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What Is VALERE-DC-POWER-MIB?

This is a vendor MIB from Valere Power for its DC power system product line, covering rectifiers, batteries, load current, and associated alarm conditions used in telecom power plants. It exposes rectifier and module inventory data, battery/load current readings, and a trap table used to notify an NMS of power alarm conditions. It is fundamentally a hardware health monitoring MIB - its purpose is to track rectifier operational status, power module inventory, and alarm/trap conditions that reveal a failing rectifier, low battery, or overload before it causes a site outage. It appears to be a self-contained enterprise MIB with no stated dependency on other standard MIBs beyond its own historical revisions, which added rectifier and module inventory tables over time. It is deployed in telecom central office and cell site environments where DC rectifier/battery plants power core network and radio equipment, and technicians can download the VALERE-DC-POWER-MIB file directly to load it into their SNMP management tools.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in VALERE-DC-POWER-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

  • Valere DC power systems / rectifier cabinets
  • telecom power plant equipment

Monitoring Examples

Based on the module's revision history, a realistic scenario would poll the rectifier inventory table to confirm every rectifier module in the plant is present and healthy, and watch the vpwrTrapTable (formerly vpwrTrapDestinationTable) for alarm traps signaling a rectifier failure, battery discharge, or overload condition before it escalates into a power outage affecting downstream network equipment.

What Can Be Monitored

  • rectifier operational status
  • battery/load current
  • power alarm conditions
  • rectifier inventory
  • module inventory
Imported Objects

From RFC1213-MIB

sysUpTime

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

AutonomousType
DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TestAndIncr
TimeInterval
TimeStamp

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using vpwrModuleOperHours OID:

Select a Valere DC power systems / rectifier cabinets, telecom power plant equipment (rectifier/battery alarm status) 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 vpwrModuleOperHours into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. It reports the cumulative Operating Hours. 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 a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline, since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Valere DC power management MIB for rectifiers, batteries, inverters, and power system monitoring in telecommunications infrastructure.

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