All MIBs › BAY-STACK-PIM-EXT-MIB
Organization: Nortel Networks
Last Updated: 2009-02-27
Category: Routing Protocols, Vendor: Avaya
Description: Extends PIM multicast routing configuration and neighbor state on Avaya/Nortel BayStack ERS switches.
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What Is BAY-STACK-PIM-EXT-MIB?
BAY-STACK-PIM-EXT-MIB is a Nortel/Avaya-originated MIB (Bay Networks lineage) that extends standard PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) management on BayStack/ERS series switches and routers, adding objects for PIM virtual neighbor relationships and active rendezvous-point (RP) mapping per multicast group. It exposes multicast routing configuration and state, specifically virtual neighbor addressing/row status and the currently active RP and its priority for each multicast group/mask. Its monitoring value is primarily about the operational health of the multicast control plane -- confirming that PIM neighbors are up and that RP-to-group mappings are correctly and consistently elected -- rather than hardware sensors. It is an extension MIB that depends on and complements the standard PIM-MIB, adding vendor-specific detail Nortel needed beyond the IETF definition. It is deployed in enterprise/campus networks running Nortel/Avaya BayStack Ethernet Routing Switches configured for IP multicast routing. Engineers can download the BAY-STACK-PIM-EXT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Nortel/Avaya BayStack Ethernet Routing Switches (ERS)
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would poll bspimePimVirtualNeighborTable to confirm a PIM virtual neighbor at a given bspimePimVirtualNeighborAddress remains in an active row status, and would check bspimePimGroupActiveRPMappingTable for a given bspimePimGroupActiveRPMappingGroupAddress to see which bspimePimGroupActiveRPMappingActiveRP was elected and at what bspimePimGroupActiveRPMappingPriority. A missing or unexpectedly changing active RP for a group would indicate an RP election problem disrupting multicast delivery, and bspimeNotifications would fire to alert on such state changes.
What Can Be Monitored
- PIM virtual neighbor status
- PIM virtual neighbor addresses
- active rendezvous-point (RP) per multicast group
- RP priority
- PIM-related trap notifications
Imported Objects
From IF-MIB
| InterfaceIndex |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| IpAddress | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| RowStatus |
From SYNOPTICS-ROOT-MIB
| bayStackMibs | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Extends PIM multicast protocol with virtual neighbor management for Nortel Bay Stack switches.
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