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Organization: Enterprise Solution ZyXEL
Last Updated: 2012-07-01
Category: ZyXEL System and Hardware Management
Description: Manages ZyXEL Power over Ethernet delivery including per-port power budget, priority, and PoE status.
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What Is ZYXEL-POWER-ETHERNET-MIB?
ZYXEL-POWER-ETHERNET-MIB is a ZyXEL enterprise MIB covering the subtree for Power over Ethernet delivery, exposing per-port power budget, priority, and PoE operational status on PoE-capable ZyXEL switches. It provides both configuration data (per-port power priority and power limits) and genuine hardware health data (actual power draw per port, PoE delivery status, overall power budget consumption). This directly supports hardware status monitoring: administrators track total PoE power consumed against the switch's power supply capacity, detect ports that failed to power up a connected device (due to budget exhaustion or a faulty powered device), and monitor per-port power draw trends for capacity planning. It typically builds on the standard POWER-ETHERNET-MIB (RFC 3621) framework with ZyXEL-specific extensions layered on top. It is deployed on ZyXEL PoE switches powering endpoints such as VoIP phones, wireless access points, and IP cameras, where power budget and per-device delivery must be actively tracked. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the ZYXEL-POWER-ETHERNET-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- ZyXEL PoE-capable managed switch
Monitoring Examples
No sample objects were captured, but based on the standard PoE MIB model this module would extend a per-port table (analogous to pethPsePortTable) with ZyXEL-specific power priority and actual power consumption fields. An administrator would poll per-port power draw and detection status to confirm an IP camera or access point is receiving power, and monitor total consumed power against the chassis PoE budget to anticipate exhaustion before adding new powered devices.
What Can Be Monitored
- per-port PoE delivery status
- per-port power draw
- per-port power priority
- total PoE power budget consumption
Imported Objects
From BRIDGE-MIB
| dot1dBasePort | OBJECT-TYPE |
From IF-MIB
| ifIndex | OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From ZYXEL-ES-SMI
| esMgmt | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Manages Power over Ethernet (PoE) configuration and status on ZyXEL network devices including consumption and classification modes.
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