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Organization: Lucent Technologies
Last Updated: 240701
Category: Network Interfaces
Description: Extends aggregated link management with additional LAG/LACP configuration and status objects beyond the base IEEE standard.
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What Is AGGREGATED-EXT-MIB?
AGGREGATED-EXT-MIB is described as a vendor extension to link aggregation (LAG/LACP) management, but the objects actually registered under it in the source data span a broader set of device-management functions bundled into one 'extension' MIB tree. Alongside any aggregation-related extensions, it carries objects for device/serial identification, firmware or configuration file-transfer administration, and per-trunk H.323/SIP DS1 voice gateway identifiers. Its hardware/software status value comes chiefly from the file-transfer objects (old/new file, host, port, result, and reason), which let an admin confirm whether a firmware or configuration update completed successfully or failed with a specific cause. It is meant to extend the base IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation MIB, though the concrete objects available suggest it also touches unrelated device-identity and voice-trunk functionality on the same platform. It would be deployed on a multi-service access or voice gateway device that combines link aggregation, firmware management, and H.323/SIP voice trunking in a single chassis. Administrators typically start with an AGGREGATED-EXT-MIB download from the platform vendor before compiling this file-transfer, identity, and voice-trunk data into their SNMP management system.
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Supported Devices
- Multi-service access/voice gateway with link aggregation support
Monitoring Examples
Objects such as pepName, devName, and snName identify the network element and its serial identity; oldFile/newFile/host/port/minutes/result/reason together describe a firmware or configuration file-transfer operation, letting an admin confirm whether a scheduled software download completed successfully or failed with a specific reason code; h323DS1/h323DS2 and sipDS1 expose per-trunk identifiers for H.323 and SIP-signaled DS1 spans on a voice gateway.
What Can Be Monitored
- firmware/file transfer result and reason
- device/serial identification
- H.323 DS1 trunk assignment
- SIP DS1 trunk assignment
- file transfer duration
Imported Objects
From RFC-1212
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From RFC1155-SMI
| Counter | |
| IpAddress | |
| enterprises |
From RFC1213-MIB
| DisplayString |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Counter32 | |
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| ObjectName | |
| snmpModules |
From SNMPv2-TC
| RowStatus | |
| TestAndIncr | |
| TimeStamp | |
| TruthValue |
OIDs
FAQ
What is AGGREGATED-EXT-MIB used for on a multi-service access/voice gateway?
Although framed as a link-aggregation (LAG/LACP) extension, the objects it actually registers cover a broader set of functions bundled together: device/serial identification, firmware or configuration file-transfer administration (old/new file, host, port, result, reason), and per-trunk H.323/SIP DS1 voice gateway identifiers. Its main hardware/software-status value is confirming whether a firmware or configuration update completed successfully or failed with a specific reason.
How would I use AGGREGATED-EXT-MIB to confirm a firmware update succeeded?
You'd poll its file-transfer result and reason objects after initiating an update -- these report whether the old-to-new firmware or configuration file transfer completed successfully or failed with a specific reason, alongside device/serial identification and the H.323/SIP DS1 trunk assignments configured on the same voice gateway platform.
RFC description
Extension MIB for managed object aggregation based on RFC 4498.
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