BORDERWARE-FW-MIB

Description: Monitors firewall rule statistics, connection tables, and security events on Borderware Technologies security gateways.

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BORDERWARE-FW-MIB is Borderware Technologies' private MIB extension for its firewall/security gateway products, focused on alarms and security events. It exposes firewall alarm objects — an alarm trigger flag, alarm name, time of last change, and the remote IP address and destination port associated with the triggering traffic — along with standard SNMPv2 conformance groups. It is used primarily to monitor the software/security status of the firewall, specifically detecting when a security alarm has fired and identifying the source and destination of the offending traffic, which supports intrusion and anomaly detection rather than physical hardware health monitoring. Its conformance structure (bwFirewallConformance, bwFirewallCompliances, bwFirewallGroups) follows standard SNMPv2 conformance conventions rather than depending on another functional MIB. It is deployed on Borderware firewall/security gateway appliances protecting enterprise network perimeters, and administrators can download the BORDERWARE-FW-MIB file to load it into their MIB browser for alarm monitoring setup.

An administrator polling this MIB would watch alTriggerAlarm to detect when a new firewall alarm has fired, then inspect alName and alLastChange to identify which rule triggered and when, and alRemoteIpAddr/alDestPort to pinpoint the source address and targeted port of the suspicious traffic. A burst of alarms pointing at the same alRemoteIpAddr across multiple alDestPort values would suggest a port scan or brute-force attempt against the protected network.

Exposes Borderware firewall alarm conditions and status events for network security monitoring.