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Category: Wellfleet BayNetworks System Management
Description: Manages Wellfleet remote unit initialization boot parameters and image loading configuration.
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What Is Wellfleet-RUIBOOT-MIB?
The Wellfleet-RUIBOOT-MIB is a legacy proprietary MIB from Wellfleet Communications (later Bay Networks/Nortel) covering remote unit initialization and boot-image loading for Wellfleet routers. It exposes configuration-oriented data such as boot source selection, boot image identification, and initialization parameters used when a router or remote unit boots up. Its monitoring value lies in confirming which boot image and source a device is configured to load and whether the last initialization used the expected image, functioning as a software-state check rather than ongoing hardware telemetry like temperature or CPU load. It has no apparent dependency on external standard MIBs, being entirely within Wellfleet's proprietary enterprise tree. It was typically used by network management stations overseeing Wellfleet/Bay Networks routers and remote access units in 1990s-era WAN deployments, and administrators researching this legacy hardware today can find a Wellfleet-RUIBOOT-MIB download available to load into a MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Wellfleet router
- Bay Networks/Nortel router
- remote access unit
Monitoring Examples
No specific object or table names were extracted for this module, so this is based on its stated purpose. In practice this MIB would let an administrator confirm which boot image and boot source (e.g., local flash versus a network boot server) a Wellfleet remote unit is configured to use, and check whether its last initialization completed against the expected image. A unit falling back to a default or backup image would show up as a mismatch between configured and actual boot image references, and would typically only be polled by an integrated Wellfleet/Bay Networks NMS such as Optivity.
What Can Be Monitored
- boot image/source selection
- boot parameter configuration
- remote unit initialization status
- last boot image used
Imported Objects
From RFC-1212
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From RFC-1215
| TRAP-TYPE |
From RFC1155-SMI
| Counter | |
| Gauge | |
| IpAddress | |
| Opaque | |
| TimeTicks | |
| enterprises | |
| mgmt |
From RFC1213-MIB
| DisplayString | |
| mib-2 |
From Wellfleet-COMMON-MIB
| wfRuiBootGroup | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Wellfleet Networks RUI (Remote User Interface) boot and initialization parameter management MIB; vendor-private.
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