BORDERWARE-SMG-MIB

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Organization: Borderware Technology Inc.

Last Updated: 2004-05-26

Category: VPN and Security, Vendor: Borderware

Description: Manages Borderware Secure Mail Gateway (SMG) email security service configuration and statistics.

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What Is BORDERWARE-SMG-MIB?

BORDERWARE-SMG-MIB is a Borderware (now part of Trustwave) vendor MIB for the Secure Mail Gateway (SMG) email security appliance, originally documented as "Mail Firewall" SNMP extensions. It exposes mail queue depth, deferred and total message counts, and per-interval throughput broken down by received, sent, spam, rejected, virus-infected, and clean message counts. Its monitoring focus is software/service status of the mail-processing pipeline: a growing queuedMessages or deferredMessages count signals a backlog or downstream delivery problem, while spikes in mailSpam or mailVirus indicate a change in incoming threat volume, and mailReject trends show policy enforcement activity. It is a self-contained appliance MIB with no strong dependency on external standards beyond generic SNMPv2 conventions. Deployment context is an enterprise email security gateway inspecting inbound/outbound SMTP traffic for spam and malware before delivery, with BORDERWARE-SMG-MIB SNMP monitoring exposing queue depth and threat-volume trends to the operations team.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in BORDERWARE-SMG-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

Borderware Secure Mail Gateway / Mail Firewall appliance

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll queuedMessages and deferredMessages regularly to catch a mail backlog building up, and compare mailRcvd against mailSent over the same mailInterval to spot a growing gap indicating stuck messages. A sudden jump in mailVirus or mailSpam relative to mailClean would flag an active spam/malware campaign hitting the gateway. Sustained high deferredMessages alongside flat mailSent would point to a downstream mail relay being unreachable.

What Can Be Monitored

queued and deferred message counts
messages received/sent per interval
spam-flagged messages
virus-infected messages
rejected messages
clean message throughput

Imported Objects

From BORDERWARE-MIB

borderware	MODULE-IDENTITY
bwProductId	OBJECT-IDENTITY
bwProducts	OBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using queuedMessages OID:

Select a Borderware mail gateway appliance 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 queuedMessages into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The number of queued mail messages. 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

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
bwMailFirewall4	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.2.11
bwMailFirewall	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11			The private Borderware Mail Firewall SNMP extensions.
bwMailFirewallConformance	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.3
bwMailFirewallCompliances	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.3.1
bwMailFirewallCompliance	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.3.1.1			The compliance statement for SNMP entities which implement the BORDERWARE-SMG-MIB.
bwMailFirewallGroups	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.3.2
bwMessagesGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.3.2.1			A collection of objects providing for remote monitoring of current condition of mail handler.
bwMailStatsGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.3.2.2			A collection of objects providing for remote monitoring of historical condition of mail handler.
mailTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10			Complete mail activity summary.
mailEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.1		not-accessible	An entry containing mail statistics.
STR mailInterval	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.1.1	DisplayString	read-only	Time interval pertaining to the data in this sequence.
C32 mailRcvd	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.1.2	Counter32	read-only	Number of received messages for this interval.
C32 mailSent	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.1.3	Counter32	read-only	Number of sent messages for this interval.
C32 mailSpam	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.1.4	Counter32	read-only	Number of spam messages for this interval.
C32 mailReject	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.1.5	Counter32	read-only	Number of rejected messages for this interval
C32 mailVirus	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.1.6	Counter32	read-only	Number of messages identified as containig a virus for this interval.
C32 mailClean	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.1.7	Counter32	read-only	Number of clean messages for this interval.
mailStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.2			The entry for current stats on MTA
C32 queuedMessagesEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.2.1	Counter32	read-only	The number of queued mail messages.
C32 deferredMessages	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.2.2	Counter32	read-only	The number of deferred mail messages.
C32 totalMessages	1.3.6.1.4.1.8673.1.11.10.2.3	Counter32	read-only	The total number of mail messages.

RFC description

Mail firewall message queue and traffic statistics monitoring for Borderware.

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