DISMAN-TRACEROUTE-MIB

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Organization: IETF Distributed Management Working Group

Last Updated: 2006-06-13

Category: MPLS and Traffic Engineering

Description: Defines managed objects for configuring and executing remote traceroute operations via SNMP, with tables for control, results, and per-hop probe history.

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What Is DISMAN-TRACEROUTE-MIB?

DISMAN-TRACEROUTE-MIB is a vendor-neutral, standards-based IETF MIB (RFC 4560) that is part of the Distributed Management (Disman) family, providing SNMP-driven access to a traceroute capability running on a remote host or network device. It exposes control objects for configuring and initiating a traceroute operation, a results table summarizing each completed run, and a per-hop probe history table with round-trip-time and responding-address detail. As a monitoring module its use is diagnostic rather than steady-state hardware monitoring: it lets a central NMS remotely trigger a path trace from a device and inspect hop-by-hop reachability and latency, revealing where along a path connectivity degrades or a routing loop occurs. It builds on standard SNMP conventions (SNMPv2-TC) and is designed to be used alongside other Disman modules such as DISMAN-PING-MIB and DISMAN-EVENT-MIB for a fuller remote-diagnostics toolkit. It is deployed on routers, probes, or hosts that implement the Disman framework, typically invoked on demand by a network operations team troubleshooting a reachability or latency issue. Engineers implementing or auditing this functionality typically reference the DISMAN-TRACEROUTE-MIB RFC/standard documentation for the authoritative specification.

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Supported Devices

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
  • routers, probes, or hosts implementing the IETF Disman traceroute capability

Monitoring Examples

An NMS creates a row in traceRouteCtlTable to specify the target address and probe parameters for a trace, then after the operation runs, polls traceRouteResultsTable for the overall outcome (hop count, completion status) and traceRouteProbeHistoryTable for per-hop response address and round-trip time; a hop that shows no response or a sudden RTT jump pinpoints the specific network segment currently causing packet loss or added latency. No sample object names were provided in the source excerpt, so these table names reflect the well-documented RFC 4560 structure rather than the source data directly.

What Can Be Monitored

  • traceroute control/configuration rows
  • traceroute overall result/completion status
  • per-hop round-trip time
  • per-hop responding address
Imported Objects

From DISMAN-PING-MIB

OperationResponseStatus

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndexOrZero

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
RowStatus
StorageType
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Provides traceroute diagnostic capability for remote hosts to determine network paths to destinations.

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