DELL-NETWORKING-FPSTATS-MIB

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Organization: Dell Inc

Last Updated: 2014-09-04

Category: Device Management, Vendor: Dell

Description: Manages forwarding plane statistics and packet counters for Dell Networking switch hardware.

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What Is DELL-NETWORKING-FPSTATS-MIB?

DELL-NETWORKING-FPSTATS-MIB is a Dell Networking OS enterprise MIB reporting forwarding-plane (data-plane CPU) statistics and packet counters for Dell Networking switch hardware, tracking how the switch's network processor handles packets sent to the CPU. It exposes dellNetFpCpuDataPlaneTable with per-processor counters such as packets received (dellNetFpRecvd), dropped (dellNetFpDropped), forwarded to the network (dellNetFpRecvToNet), receive errors (dellNetFpRxError), and buffer/memory-header allocation failures (dellNetFpNoMhdr, dellNetFpNoMBuf, dellNetFpNoClus). This is fundamentally a hardware/software performance-health MIB: rising drop or error counters directly indicate forwarding-plane congestion, buffer exhaustion, or a hardware fault on the switch's CPU-facing packet path, distinct from general interface counters. It is Dell-specific and complements the standard IF-MIB interface counters by exposing internal CPU/forwarding-plane detail not visible at the interface layer. It is deployed on Dell Networking switches in production networks where engineers need to distinguish control-plane CPU overload or forwarding-plane hardware issues from ordinary interface-level traffic problems, often after a DELL-NETWORKING-FPSTATS-MIB download to load the module into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in DELL-NETWORKING-FPSTATS-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

  • Dell Networking switches (Dell Networking OS)

Monitoring Examples

An engineer would poll dellNetFpCpuDataPlaneTable per dellNetProcessorDeviceIndex, watching dellNetFpDropped and dellNetFpRxError climb relative to dellNetFpRecvd to detect a forwarding-plane processor under stress or a hardware defect. Rising dellNetFpNoMBuf or dellNetFpNoClus counts would point specifically to internal buffer/memory exhaustion on that processor rather than a wire-side traffic issue. dellNetFpRecvToNet would be compared against dellNetFpRecvd to see what fraction of CPU-punted packets were successfully forwarded back out.

What Can Be Monitored

  • CPU/forwarding-plane packets received
  • packets dropped
  • receive errors
  • buffer/memory allocation failures
  • packets forwarded to network
Imported Objects

From DELL-NETWORKING-SMI

dellNetMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From DELL-NETWORKING-TC

DellNetDeviceType

From IF-MIB

ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using dellNetFpPartyBusInputPackets OID:

Select a Dell Networking switch (forwarding-plane CPU statistics) 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 dellNetFpPartyBusInputPackets into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. It reports the number of input packets. 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

RFC description

Dell Networking forward plane statistics for data plane performance monitoring across CPUs and line cards.

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