DNOS-LOGGING-MIB

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Organization: Dell, Inc.

Last Updated: 2011-01-26

Category: Technology: Logging/Syslog, Vendor: Dell/DNOS

Description: Manages system event logging configuration, buffered log settings, and syslog server destinations on Dell DNOS devices.

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What Is DNOS-LOGGING-MIB?

DNOS-LOGGING-MIB is a Dell/Broadcom private MIB for DNOS switches that manages system event logging configuration, including buffered (in-memory) log settings, syslog facility codes, and remote syslog server destinations. It exposes objects for configuring logging severity thresholds, buffer size, and the list of syslog servers a device forwards events to, alongside the syslog facility code used to classify message priority. For monitoring purposes it is primarily a configuration/fault-reporting MIB: verifying that syslog destinations are correctly set ensures that hardware faults, link flaps, and software errors logged by the switch actually reach a central log collector, and buffer-related objects can reveal if local logs are being lost due to overflow. As a private DNOS MIB it complements rather than replaces standard SNMP trap/notification mechanisms and depends on the vendor's internal logging subsystem. It is deployed on Dell EMC DNOS switches to centralize event/fault visibility across a fleet, feeding syslog servers used for compliance and troubleshooting. Engineers can download the DNOS-LOGGING-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in DNOS-LOGGING-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 EMC DNOS-based network switches

Monitoring Examples

An admin would verify the configured syslog server address list and facility code objects to confirm the switch is correctly forwarding logs to the central syslog collector before relying on remote monitoring for fault detection. Checking buffered log size/status objects would reveal if the local log buffer is full and overwriting older messages, risking loss of a hardware fault event that occurred between polls. Facility code misconfiguration could explain logs from this device being filed under the wrong severity bucket at the collector.

What Can Be Monitored

  • syslog server destinations
  • logging severity/facility configuration
  • buffered log size and status
  • remote log forwarding state
Imported Objects

From DELL-REF-MIB

dnOSOBJECT-IDENTITY

From DNOS-INVENTORY-MIB

agentInventoryComponentIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndexOrZero

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using agentLogMessagesReceived OID:

Select a Dell EMC network switch 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 agentLogMessagesReceived into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The number of messages received by the log process. 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 between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Configures syslog facility and severity levels for Dell networking device logging including syslog server management.

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