CTRON-SFPS-PKTMGR-MIB

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Category: Vendor: Cabletron/Enterasys

Description: Manages Cabletron SFPS packet manager configuration for ingress packet classification and forwarding decisions.

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What Is CTRON-SFPS-PKTMGR-MIB?

CTRON-SFPS-PKTMGR-MIB is a Cabletron (Enterasys) enterprise MIB that manages the packet manager component of the SecureFast Packet Switch (SFPS), covering ingress packet classification, buffer allocation, and forwarding-decision statistics per switch. It exposes a packet-manager table tracking total packets, packets used/available/in-use for buffering, and error counters for packets that could not be classified or were too large. For hardware/software status monitoring, sfpsPacketMgrPktsAvailable versus sfpsPacketMgrPktsInUse reveals whether the switch's packet buffer pool is running low -- a hardware-resource exhaustion condition -- while sfpsPacketMgrNotFound and sfpsPacketMgrTooLarge counters expose packet-processing errors indicating misconfiguration or oversized frames hitting the switch. It works as a companion to CTRON-SFPS-BASE-MIB, CTRON-SFPS-CALL-MIB, and CTRON-SFPS-CONN-MIB within the broader SFPS architecture. It is deployed on Cabletron SecureFast Packet Switch devices, where the CTRON-SFPS-PKTMGR-MIB MIB is polled to monitor packet-buffer health and classification errors.

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Supported Devices

Cabletron SecureFast Packet Switch (SFPS)

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll sfpsPacketMgrTable entries per sfpsPacketMgrSwitchID, comparing sfpsPacketMgrPktsAvailable to sfpsPacketMgrPktsInUse to see if the packet buffer pool is close to exhaustion, which would precede packet drops. Rising sfpsPacketMgrNotFound or sfpsPacketMgrTooLarge counts alongside sfpsPacketMgrTotalPackets would indicate a growing rate of misclassified or oversized packets reaching the switch. sfpsPacketMgrToCreate lets the admin see how many new packet buffers the manager is attempting to allocate, a useful leading indicator of load.

What Can Be Monitored

packet buffer availability vs. in-use
total packets processed
unclassified/not-found packet count
oversized packet count
packet buffer allocation requests

Imported Objects

From CTRON-SFPS-INCLUDE-MIB

sfpsCSPPacket	OBJECT-IDENTITY
sfpsPktDispatchStats	OBJECT-IDENTITY
sfpsSwitchSfpsPacket	OBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
INT numBCPCallNotAcceptedDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.28	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBCPCPFaultedDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.24	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBCPCPHaltedDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.26	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBCPGleanFailDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.25	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBCPNullCallDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.23	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBCPSwitchedBCADrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.27	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSCSPCtrlDisableDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.21	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSCSPCtrlIndexDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.22	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSFabricNghbrPortDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.14	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSGoingToAccessPortDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.15	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSInvCSPTypeDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.19	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSInvPortTypeDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.16	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSInvSrcPortDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.9	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSNonHello81fdDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.20	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSNullBottomCPDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.18	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSNullCallDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.17	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSSourceBlockDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.10	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSStandbyPortDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.13	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSUnknownPortDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.12	INTEGER	read-only
INT numBSViolationDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.11	INTEGER	read-only
INT numHPM81fdHelloNullPktDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.30	INTEGER	read-only
INT numHPM81fdNullPktDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.29	INTEGER	read-only
INT numHPM81fdThrottleDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.6	INTEGER	read-only
INT numHPM81ffThrottleDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.7	INTEGER	read-only
INT numHPMFilterMgtPortDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.3	INTEGER	read-only
INT numHPMInvalidFrameTypeDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.2	INTEGER	read-only
INT numHPMNullSFPSPktDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.5	INTEGER	read-only
INT numHPMPhysStandbyMaskDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.8	INTEGER	read-only
INT numHPMPhysToLogPortDrops	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.4	INTEGER	read-only
INT sfpsCSPPacketStatsPacketsReceivedBad	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.10.3	INTEGER	read-only
INT sfpsCSPPacketStatsPacketsReceivedGood	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.10.4	INTEGER	read-only
INT sfpsCSPPacketStatsPacketsSentBad	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.10.1	INTEGER	read-only
INT sfpsCSPPacketStatsPacketsSentGood	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.10.2	INTEGER	read-only
sfpsPacketListEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1		not-accessible	Each entry describes part of the packetmanager table
INT sfpsPacketListLowWater	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1.7	INTEGER	read-only	The lowest number of packets ever in the packetmanager
INT sfpsPacketListNotFound	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1.8	INTEGER	read-only	The number of times a packet was requested and the packetmanager did not have a packet of its size or larger
NUM sfpsPacketListPacketType	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1.1	HexInteger	read-only	The switch instance of the switch
INT sfpsPacketListPktsInUse	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1.6	INTEGER	read-only	The number of packets created minus the number of packets left
INT sfpsPacketListPktsLeft	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1.5	INTEGER	read-only	The number of packets left in the packetmanager
INT sfpsPacketListPktsUsed	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1.4	INTEGER	read-only	The total number of pkts used since beginning of switch uptime
INT sfpsPacketListSize	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1.2	INTEGER	read-only	The size of the packets that are located in this particular sfpspacketlist
INT sfpsPacketListStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1.9	INTEGER	read-only	Sets the administrative state of the packet list for which the entry exists.
sfpsPacketListTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2		not-accessible	This table keeps the statistics on all packets in the packetmanager
INT sfpsPacketListTotalPackets	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.2.1.3	INTEGER	read-only	The total number of packets created in the packetmanager
sfpsPacketMgrEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1		not-accessible	Each entry describes part of the packetmanager table
INT sfpsPacketMgrNotFound	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.8	INTEGER	read-only	The number of times a packet was requested and the packetmanager did not have a packet of its size or larger
NUM sfpsPacketMgrPacketType	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.2	HexInteger	read-only	The packet type
INT sfpsPacketMgrPktsAvailable	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.5	INTEGER	read-only	The number of packets left in the packetmanager
INT sfpsPacketMgrPktsInUse	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.6	INTEGER	read-only	The number of packets created minus the number of packets left
INT sfpsPacketMgrPktsUsed	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.4	INTEGER	read-only	The total number of pkts used since beginning of switch uptime
INT sfpsPacketMgrReInit	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.11	INTEGER	read-write	The lowest number of packets ever in the packetmanager
INT sfpsPacketMgrSwitchID	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.1	INTEGER	read-only	The switch instance of the switch
sfpsPacketMgrTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1		not-accessible	This table keeps the statistics on all packets in the packetmanager
INT sfpsPacketMgrToCreate	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.10	INTEGER	read-write	Changes the number of packets in the PacketManager
INT sfpsPacketMgrTooLarge	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.9	INTEGER	read-only
INT sfpsPacketMgrTotalPackets	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.1.1.3	INTEGER	read-only	The total number of packets created in the packetmanager
INT sfpsPacketQCurrent	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.4.1.3	INTEGER	read-only
sfpsPacketQEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.4.1		not-accessible
INT sfpsPacketQHighWater	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.4.1.4	INTEGER	read-only
INT sfpsPacketQPriorityQ	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.4.1.1	INTEGER	read-only
sfpsPacketQTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.4		not-accessible
INT sfpsPacketQTotalPackets	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.4.1.2	INTEGER	read-only
sfpsPacketSizeEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.3.1		not-accessible	Each entry describes part of the packetmanager table
INT sfpsPacketSizeNotFound	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.3.1.4	INTEGER	read-only	The number of times a packet was requested and the packetmanager did not have a packet of its size or Larger
INT sfpsPacketSizePktsUsed	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.3.1.3	INTEGER	read-only	The total number of pkts used since beginning of switch uptime
INT sfpsPacketSizeSize	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.3.1.2	INTEGER	read-only	The size of the packets that are located in this particular sfpspacketSize
SFP sfpsPacketSizeSwitchInstance	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.3.1.1	SfpsSwitchInstance	read-only	The switch instance of the switch
sfpsPacketSizeTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.3		not-accessible	This table keeps the statistics on all packets in the packetmanager
INT sfpsPktDispatchStatsVerb	1.3.6.1.4.1.52.4.2.4.2.1.7.5.1	INTEGER	read-write

RFC description

Fast Packet Switching packet manager statistics and monitoring for Cabletron SFPS systems.

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What Is CTRON-SFPS-PKTMGR-MIB?

Supported Devices

Monitoring Examples

What Can Be Monitored

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