ALTEON-CHEETAH-SWITCH-MIB

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Organization: Nortel Networks

Last Updated: 2004-09-01

Category: Vendor: Alteon

Description: Alteon Cheetah switch platform MIB for managing switch fabric, port configuration, and VLAN settings.

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What Is ALTEON-CHEETAH-SWITCH-MIB?

ALTEON-CHEETAH-SWITCH-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB whose MODULE-IDENTITY lists ORGANIZATION "Nortel Networks" (Alteon's parent company at the time this MIB was maintained, prior to the later Radware acquisition of the Alteon line), covering the Alteon/Nortel "Cheetah" switch fabric platform. It defines large configuration and operational tables including agPortCurCfgTable/agPortNewCfgTable and agPortOperTable for per-port configuration and operational state, portInfoTable and switchCapSlbPortInfoTable for port and server-load-balancing capability info, agMgmtNetTable and agMgmtNetTable variants for management network access, agTrapHostTable and agSyslogMsgTable for notification/logging configuration, and ipAclCurCfgTable/agCfgSecurityPortTable for IP ACL and port security policy. This breadth of configuration tables means the MIB is used mainly to monitor switch configuration state, applied ACL/security policy, and port operational status rather than raw hardware sensors. It is deployed on Alteon/Nortel (and successor Radware) Cheetah-family Layer 2/3 content switches, and network teams use the ALTEON-CHEETAH-SWITCH-MIB MIB Browser view to inspect these configuration and status tables.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in ALTEON-CHEETAH-SWITCH-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • Alteon/Nortel Cheetah-family switches (later Radware Alteon product line)

Monitoring Examples

An operator polls agPortOperTable to check the operational state of each switch port alongside agPortCurCfgTable for its configured VLAN/trunk settings, and reviews ipAclCurCfgTable to confirm expected ACL rules are applied; a port reporting a down operational state while agPortCurCfgTable shows it enabled and forwarding would flag a link or fabric issue on that port.

What Can Be Monitored

  • per-port current and new configuration tables
  • port operational status
  • server-load-balancing port capability info
  • management network access configuration
  • trap host and syslog message tables
  • IP ACL and port security configuration
Imported Objects

From ALTEON-ROOT-MIB

aws-switch

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
PhysAddress

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using symStatsTotalHits OID:

Select an Alteon (Nortel/Radware) Cheetah-based application switch (legacy) as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type symStatsTotalHits into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the total number of Symantec Hits. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline, since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Radware Alteon Cheetah load balancer MIB for application delivery monitoring. Contains SNMP objects for virtual server utilization, throughput, session counts, and health metrics of load balancing appliances.

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