products		Rubidium Series 1 & 3: Module IE Option SNMP agent

With the SNMP option, your rubidium system is capable of being used as a SNMP Network Element. You can easily monitor and control the system using centralized network management software. If you need detailed information about SNMP protocol you should have a look at the related documents, as RFC 1157 for example.

The "rubidium.mib" MIB file (management information base) provided on the diskette with your rubidium IE module is required by your network SNMP management software (or contact for a replacement copy). It is written in accordance to RFC 1065, which is also known as SMI version 1. This enables a very high compatibility to your special SNMP management software (not included with rubidium products). Although a MIB file based on SMI syntax version 2 is available on request.

All status and setup information can be queried via SNMP for every module that is present in your rubidium system. That means that you can choose between the status monitor from the IE module and your SNMP management application to control the status of your system.

How you get the setup and status information you require depends on the special SNMP monitoring software you are using. The most likely and probably best method to gain information from the MIB file is, that your management system (or a special MIB browser) allows you to load the MIB file and then presents the MIB's content as a tree or something equivalent.

Any setup or status information has an OID (Object Identifier). The OID consist of a fixed part and a variable part that includes the physical location of the module inside the frame and the module's type.((more...)

Several traps can be generated and sent to your network management application. Traps are available for some error indication functions to inform you when a malfunction has occurred. In particular, the following trap-events are available:

• Any Module
  • Cold Boot
  • Config

• Module Switcher (SL / SV / SR):
  • System Error
  • System Failure
  • Changeover
  • Signal Failure
  • Signal Warning

Additionally, the IE module can send traps for special events, for example on rebooting, community changing and some security related events. When you first set up your network, you may want to generate a test trap to test if all settings are correct and ready to work. You may use the "Config" trap for this purpose. It's generated every time you try to connect to or disconnect from a module using the "Rubidium Config" software via the PC (RS232) connector.

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