A3COM0034-PROBECONFIG-EXTENSION

Description: Extends probe configuration objects for 3Com RMON monitoring appliances.

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A3COM0034-PROBECONFIG-EXTENSION is a 3Com vendor MIB that extends the configuration objects of 3Com's RMON monitoring probe appliances, covering network-level bootstrap configuration for the probe device itself. It exposes objects for the probe's network configuration table, including its default gateway and whether it uses BOOTP for address assignment. Its monitoring/management relevance is centered on confirming the probe appliance's own network configuration is correct, i.e., verifying the monitoring probe has the right gateway and BOOTP setting so it can reach the network it's supposed to be monitoring, a basic configuration-health check for the monitoring infrastructure rather than the monitored network itself. As an "extension," it explicitly depends on and supplements the base 3Com RMON probe configuration MIB, so it is used in conjunction with that base MIB rather than standalone. It's deployed on legacy 3Com RMON probe/monitoring appliances used to capture and analyze traffic on 3Com network segments. Engineers can download the A3COM0034-PROBECONFIG-EXTENSION file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

Reading extNetConfigTable/extNetConfigEntry returns extNetConfigDefaultGateway and extNetConfigBootP, letting an administrator confirm the probe is configured with the correct default gateway and BOOTP setting; a probe unreachable from the NMS could be diagnosed by checking whether its default gateway is misconfigured. Since this is a small configuration-extension table rather than a runtime-statistics MIB, its use is limited to confirming/adjusting the probe's basic network settings rather than tracking live traffic metrics.

Extends network interface configuration with gateway and BootP protocol settings for 3COM probes.