All MIBs › VMWARE-TC-MIB
Organization: VMware, Inc
Last Updated: 2009-09-05
Category: Textual Conventions and Registries
Description:
Supplies SNMP textual conventions (custom data types) shared by other VMware MIB modules.
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-TC
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
From VMWARE-ROOT-MIB
| vmwSystem | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
What Is VMWARE-TC-MIB?
VMWARE-TC-MIB is a textual-convention MIB defining common SNMP data types shared across VMware's enterprise MIB modules for virtualization infrastructure management. As a TC-only module it contains no runtime object instances; it standardizes reusable types that other VMware MIBs (covering hosts, virtual machines, resource usage, and hardware health) rely on to represent their data consistently. Its relevance to hardware/software status monitoring is therefore indirect, underpinning the correct typing of status and performance data reported by VMware's other MIBs rather than exposing any status itself, so a VMWARE-TC-MIB OID is rarely looked up directly by an operator except when decoding an unfamiliar enumerated value referenced from another VMware MIB. No sample objects were supplied in this batch, consistent with it being a pure conventions module, so no object names can be cited. It is used wherever VMware ESXi/vCenter-managed virtualization infrastructure is monitored via SNMP, as a required import for the vendor's functional MIBs.
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Supported Devices
- VMware enterprise MIB family, entire range (ESXi/vCenter-managed virtualization infrastructure) (shared textual conventions, no data objects)
Monitoring Examples
This is a textual-conventions-only module supplying shared data type definitions for other VMware MIBs, with no runtime data objects of its own, so no monitoring scenario applies; actual host, VM, or hardware status objects are exposed in VMware's other enterprise MIBs that import these common types.
OIDs
| OID symbolic | OID numeric | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vmwTcMIB | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.1.11 | This MIB module provides common datatypes for use in VMWARE enterprise mib modules |
RFC description
Defines SNMP textual conventions (custom data types) used across other VMware MIB modules.
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