RFC 3877, "Alarm Management Information Base (MIB)", September 2004

Errata ID: 1819
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Enda Murphy
Date Reported: 2009-07-29
Held for Document Update by: Dan Romascanu

Section 5.2 says:

    -- The following are used with Processing error alarm.
                storageCapacityProblem (151),
                memoryMismatch  (152),
                corruptData  (153),
                outOfCPUCycles   (154),
                sfwrEnvironmentProblem  (155),
                sfwrDownloadFailure  (156),
                lossOfRealTimel (157),
    --A processing error alarm to be issued after the system has
    --reinitialised. This will indicate
    --to the management systems that the view they have of the managed
    --system may no longer
    --be valid. Usage example: The managed
    --system issues this alarm after a reinitialization with severity
    --warning to inform the
    --management system about the event. No clearing notification will
    --be sent.
                applicationSubsystemFailure (158),
                configurationOrCustomisationError (159),
                databaseInconsistency (160),
                fileError (161),
                outOfMemory (162),
                softwareError (163),
                timeoutExpired (164),
                underlayingResourceUnavailable (165),
                versionMismatch (166),
    --Values 168-200 are reserved for processing error alarm related
    -- probable causes.

It should say:

    -- The following are used with Processing error alarm.
                storageCapacityProblem (151),
                memoryMismatch  (152),
                corruptData  (153),
                outOfCPUCycles   (154),
                sfwrEnvironmentProblem  (155),
                sfwrDownloadFailure  (156),
                lossOfRealTime (157),
-- A processing error alarm to be issued if the system detects that it has lost the time in
-- the real time clock but  the clock itself is working. This could happen e.g. during a power 
-- cut in a small NE which does not have battery backup for the real time clock.
                reinitialized (158),
    --A processing error alarm to be issued after the system has
    --reinitialised. This will indicate
    --to the management systems that the view they have of the managed
    --system may no longer
    --be valid. Usage example: The managed
    --system issues this alarm after a reinitialization with severity
    --warning to inform the
    --management system about the event. No clearing notification will
    --be sent.
                applicationSubsystemFailure (159),
                configurationOrCustomisationError (160),
                databaseInconsistency (161),
                fileError (162),
                outOfMemory (163),
                softwareError (164),
                timeoutExpired (165),
                underlayingResourceUnavailable (166),
                versionMismatch (167),
    --Values 168-200 are reserved for processing error alarm related
    -- probable causes.

Notes:

It seems to be a copy/paste error from the M.3100 Standard PC text. The comment in the MIB after "lossOfRealTimel" (Note also rogue "l" at the end!) clearly refers to the PC string "reinitialized" instead. It is strange how the integers have continued on from 158 instead of retaining the original values, but anyway, it appears to be a mismatch between the two standards. Ironically I noticed it when I saw that "versionMismatch" had different values (166 and 167).

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