DLB-ATHDRV-STATS-MIB

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Organization: Deliberant

Last Updated: 2008-12-12

Category: Technology: Wireless

Description: DLB Atheros driver statistics MIB providing detailed wireless driver counters and performance statistics for Atheros chipsets.

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What Is DLB-ATHDRV-STATS-MIB?

DLB-ATHDRV-STATS-MIB is a private MIB from Deliberant, a manufacturer of point-to-point/point-to-multipoint wireless bridges built on Atheros wireless chipsets, exposing low-level driver statistics for the Atheros radio driver. It provides detailed counters for hardware-level radio events: watchdog timeouts, hardware error interrupts, beacon misses, receive overrun/end-of-list interrupts, and transmit underrun interrupts, along with queue-depth and discard counters for transmitted management frames. This is fundamentally a hardware/driver health monitoring MIB -- rising counts of hardware error interrupts, watchdog timeouts, or beacon misses are strong indicators of RF interference, driver instability, or a failing radio chipset on the wireless link. It is a vendor-specific extension exposing chipset/driver internals rather than depending on a standard wireless MIB, though it complements interface-level counters from IF-MIB. It is typically deployed on Deliberant outdoor wireless bridge/AP hardware used in WISP and point-to-point wireless backhaul deployments, generally obtained via a DLB-ATHDRV-STATS-MIB download for loading into the operator's monitoring stack.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in DLB-ATHDRV-STATS-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

  • Deliberant wireless bridge/access point (Atheros chipset-based)

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll dlbAthStatsTable/dlbAthStatsEntry for dlbAthWatchdogTimeouts, dlbAthHardwareErrorInterrupts, and dlbAthBeaconMissInterrupts to gauge radio stability on a wireless link. A climbing dlbAthRecvOverrunInterrupts or dlbAthTxmitUnderrunInterrupts count would suggest the radio is struggling to keep up with traffic load or is experiencing RF-level problems, while a rising dlbAthTxQueueFull/dlbAthTxFramesDiscQueueDepth count would reveal frames being dropped due to congestion on the wireless backhaul.

What Can Be Monitored

  • watchdog timeout count
  • hardware error interrupt count
  • beacon miss interrupt count
  • receive overrun/EOL interrupt count
  • transmit underrun interrupt count
  • transmit queue full/discard counts
Imported Objects

From DELIBERANT-MIB

dlbMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

MacAddress

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using dlbAthWatchdogTimeouts OID:

Select a Deliberant wireless bridge/access point (Atheros chipset) 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 dlbAthWatchdogTimeouts 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 watchdog timeouts. 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

Vendor MIB for driver statistics and performance monitoring in distributed load balancing systems.

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