ALCATEL-IND1-FIPS-MIB

Description: Alcatel OmniSwitch FIPS 140-2 compliance MIB for managing cryptographic module security policy and status.

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ALCATEL-IND1-FIPS-MIB is a proprietary Alcatel enterprise MIB for the OmniSwitch 'Birds Of Prey' product line, covering FIPS 140-2-related security controls, specifically MAC-address learning/filtering resource management and priority-based traffic protection. It falls into the security/configuration category, exposing objects for FIPS administrative mode, address-learning mode, filter-resource limits and usage, and priority-protection actions and thresholds. Its monitoring value is largely on software/configuration status — confirming FIPS mode is enabled as required, and watching filter-resource utilization (used vs. total) to catch resource exhaustion that could affect address learning or priority traffic protection — functioning similarly to a resource/utilization health check on the switch's control plane. It has no explicit external MIB dependency beyond the vendor's own OmniSwitch enterprise MIB tree. It is typically deployed on Alcatel OmniSwitch (Birds of Prey series) switches in environments requiring FIPS-compliant security posture, such as government or regulated enterprise networks, where administrators rely on the ALCATEL-IND1-FIPS-MIB MIB to confirm FIPS mode and resource status.

An administrator would poll alaFipsConfigFIPSAdmin to confirm FIPS mode is enabled, and alaFipsTotalNumFilterResource against alaFipsUsedNumFilterResource to see how much of the address-learning filter resource pool is consumed. A rising alaFipsUsedNumFilterResource approaching alaFipsTotalNumFilterResource would signal impending filter-resource exhaustion, while checking alaFipsConfigPriorityOne/alaFipsConfigPriorityTwo and alaFipsConfigPriorityProtectionAction would reveal whether priority-traffic protection actions (like remarking, via alaFipsConfigPriorityProtectionRemarkVal) are being triggered under load.

Manages MAC address learning and forwarding on Alcatel-Lucent Birds of Prey product line enterprise switches.