All MIBs › DLINKSW-SAFEGUARD-ENGINE-MIB
Organization: D-Link Corp.
Last Updated: 2012-06-27
Category: Security
Description: Manages the Safeguard Engine bandwidth control against broadcast storms on D-Link switches.
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What Is DLINKSW-SAFEGUARD-ENGINE-MIB?
DLINKSW-SAFEGUARD-ENGINE-MIB manages D-Link's proprietary Safeguard Engine feature, which throttles broadcast, multicast, and unknown-unicast storm traffic to protect switch CPU resources on D-Link switches. It exposes configuration objects such as feature enable/disable state and traffic-rate thresholds used to trigger CPU protection. Its monitoring value is explicitly tied to software/hardware protection status: because Safeguard Engine exists specifically to shield the switch's CPU from being overwhelmed, polling its enable state and thresholds reveals whether the device is actively defending itself against a broadcast storm, functioning as an indirect CPU-load health indicator. It resides in D-Link's private enterprise MIB tree with no dependency on external IETF standards beyond base SNMPv2-SMI conventions. It is deployed on D-Link switches, including industrial models, where DLINKSW-SAFEGUARD-ENGINE-MIB SNMP monitoring helps protect against broadcast/storm conditions.
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Supported Devices
- D-Link switch (including industrial models)
Monitoring Examples
No sample object names were provided in the source data; generically, an admin would poll the Safeguard Engine enable/disable state and configured rate-limit thresholds per interface, and any associated trigger/status indicator, to determine whether the CPU-protection mechanism is currently suppressing an active broadcast storm.
What Can Be Monitored
- Safeguard Engine enable/disable state
- broadcast/multicast/unknown-unicast rate thresholds
- CPU-protection trigger status
Imported Objects
| dCpuProtectMIBObjects | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Counter32 | |
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| RowStatus | |
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION | |
| TruthValue |
OIDs
RFC description
Manages the safeguard engine feature for CPU protection with rise/fall threshold configuration.
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