BW-BroadworksDiameterServer

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Organization: BroadSoft, Inc

Last Updated: 2007-05-23

Category: RADIUS and AAA, Telephony and VoIP, Vendor: BroadSoft

Description: Monitors BroadSoft BroadWorks Diameter server performance and AAA message processing statistics.

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What Is BW-BroadworksDiameterServer?

BW-BroadworksDiameterServer is a BroadSoft (now part of Cisco) vendor-specific MIB for the BroadWorks unified communications platform, focused on performance monitoring of its Diameter Server interconnect process, which handles AAA signaling used for services such as online charging in VoIP/UC deployments. It exposes performance-counter data covering Diameter message processing on the interconnect between BroadWorks and external Diameter peers, such as billing or online-charging systems. It is used chiefly to monitor the software/service status of the Diameter signaling component, revealing processing bottlenecks, message failures, or degraded response times that could indicate a billing/AAA integration issue rather than a physical hardware fault. It depends conceptually on the underlying Diameter protocol (RFC 6733) that it measures, and belongs to BroadSoft's broader family of BW-* performance/fault MIBs for BroadWorks components. It's typically deployed on BroadWorks application servers in carrier/service-provider VoIP and unified communications platforms, where a BW-BroadworksDiameterServer download from BroadSoft/Cisco is typically needed to load the module into a MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in BW-BroadworksDiameterServer. 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

BroadSoft BroadWorks application server (unified communications/VoIP platform)

Monitoring Examples

No sample object or table names were retrievable for this MIB, so a concrete polling example can't be grounded in real identifiers. In general, this MIB would be polled for Diameter message throughput and processing/response-time counters on the interconnect process, which an operator would use to detect a spike in failed or slow AAA transactions signaling a problem with an external billing/OCS peer.

What Can Be Monitored

Diameter interconnect message throughput
Diameter message processing/response latency
Diameter message failure/error counts

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using bwDiameterFrontNodeRequestsOut OID:

Select a BroadSoft BroadWorks VoIP/UC application server 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 bwDiameterFrontNodeRequestsOut into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the number of Diameter requests transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Diameter request is transmitted. 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
broadsoft	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431			This MIB contains the performance measurements related to the BroadWorks Diameter Server interconnect process.
broadworks	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1
diameterFrontNode	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10
protocolsModule	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1
dsBaseProtocolStats	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeRequestsOutEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.1	Counter32	read-only	Number of Diameter requests transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Diameter request is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeRequestsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.2	Counter32	read-only	Number of Diameter requests received.This counter is incremented whenever a Diameter request is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeResponsesOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.3	Counter32	read-only	Number of Diameter answers transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Diameter answer is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeResponsesIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.4	Counter32	read-only	Number of Diameter answers received. This counter is incremented whenever a Diameter answer is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeDWRsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.5	Counter32	read-only	Number of Device-Watchdog-Requests transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Device-Watchdog-Request is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeDWRsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.6	Counter32	read-only	Number of Device-Watchdog-Requests received. This counter is incremented whenever a Device-Watchdog-Request is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeDWAsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.7	Counter32	read-only	Number of Device-Watchdog-Answers transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Device-Watchdog-Answer is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeDWAsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.8	Counter32	read-only	Number of Device-Watchdog-Answers received. This counter is incremented whenever a Device-Watchdog-Answer is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeCERsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.9	Counter32	read-only	Number of Capabilities-Exchange-Requests transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Capabilities-Exchange-Request is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeCERsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.10	Counter32	read-only	Number of Capabilities-Exchange-Requests received. This counter is incremented whenever a Capabilities-Exchange-Request is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeCEAsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.11	Counter32	read-only	Number of Capabilities-Exchange-Answers transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Capabilities-Exchange-Answer is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeCEAsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.12	Counter32	read-only	Number of Capabilities-Exchange-Answers received. This counter is incremented whenever a Capabilities-Exchange-Answers is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeDPRsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.13	Counter32	read-only	Number of Disconnect-Peer-Requests transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Disconnect-Peer-Request is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeDPRsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.14	Counter32	read-only	Number of Disconnect-Peer-Requests received. This counter is incremented whenever a Disconnect-Peer-Request is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeDPAsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.15	Counter32	read-only	Number of Disconnect-Peer-Answers transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Disconnect-Peer-Answer is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeDPAsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.16	Counter32	read-only	Number of Disconnect-Peer-Answers received. This counter is incremented whenever a Disconnect-Peer-Answer is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeSTRsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.17	Counter32	read-only	Number of Session-Termination-Requests transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Session-Termination-Requests is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeSTRsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.18	Counter32	read-only	Number of Session-Termination-Requests received. This counter is incremented whenever a Session-Termination-Requests is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeSTAsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.19	Counter32	read-only	Number of Session-Termination-Answers transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Session-Termination-Answers is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeSTAsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.20	Counter32	read-only	Number of Session-Termination-Answers received. This counter is incremented whenever a Session-Termination-Answers is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeASRsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.21	Counter32	read-only	Number of Abort-Session-Requests transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Abort-Session-Requests is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeASRsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.22	Counter32	read-only	Number of Abort-Session-Requests received. This counter is incremented whenever a Abort-Session-Requests is received.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeASAsOut	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.23	Counter32	read-only	Number of Abort-Session-Answers transmitted. This counter is incremented whenever a Abort-Session-Answers is transmitted.
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeASAsIn	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.1.1.24	Counter32	read-only	Number of Abort-Session-Answers received. This counter is incremented whenever a Abort-Session-Answers is received.
managementModule	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.2
C32 bwDiameterFrontNodeResetAllCounters	1.3.6.1.4.1.6431.1.10.2.1	Counter32	read-write	When set to a value other than 0, all counters in the Diameter Front Node are reset to 0.

RFC description

BroadWorks Diameter Server performance metrics including request/response counters and interconnect process monitoring.

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