BAY-STACK-ECMP-MIB

Description: Manages Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing configuration and next-hop groups on Avaya/Nortel ERS switches.

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BAY-STACK-ECMP-MIB is a Nortel/Avaya proprietary MIB for Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing configuration on BayStack/Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) platforms. It exposes a configuration table for setting the routing protocol used and the maximum number of ECMP paths, along with associated notifications. This is a routing-configuration MIB rather than a hardware-sensor MIB; its monitoring relevance is confirming ECMP is enabled and correctly bounded, since an unexpectedly low bsEcmpConfigMaxPath could explain suboptimal load balancing or route selection on the switch. It builds on top of standard routing protocol concepts (e.g., OSPF) that ECMP is applied to, rather than defining its own routing logic. It is deployed on Avaya/Nortel ERS switches in networks using multipath routing to balance traffic across redundant equal-cost links. Engineers can download the BAY-STACK-ECMP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

An operator would check bsEcmpConfigTable/bsEcmpConfigEntry's bsEcmpConfigRoutingProtocol and bsEcmpConfigMaxPath to confirm ECMP is enabled for the expected protocol with the intended number of paths. If traffic isn't balancing across all expected links, comparing the configured bsEcmpConfigMaxPath against the actual number of equal-cost routes in use would help isolate a configuration mismatch versus a routing topology issue, and bsEcmpNotifications would alert on related state changes.

Manages Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing configuration across OSPF, IS-IS, static, and BGP protocols on Nortel stacks.