All MIBs › Dell-CPU-COUNTERS-MIB
Organization: Dell
Last Updated: 2020-07-01
Category: Domain: System Management, Vendor: Dell
Description: Monitors CPU utilization counters and processing load statistics on Dell network switches.
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What Is Dell-CPU-COUNTERS-MIB?
Dell-CPU-COUNTERS-MIB is a Dell-proprietary MIB for Dell networking switches (e.g., PowerConnect/Force10-derived platforms) focused specifically on CPU utilization and processing-load counters. It exposes performance data describing how busy the switch's control-plane CPU is over various sampling intervals, rather than interface or environmental data. Its core monitoring purpose is software/hardware performance health: detecting sustained high CPU utilization that could indicate a control-plane overload, a runaway process, or a device struggling to keep up with management or routing protocol load. As a narrowly-scoped counters MIB it likely depends on standard SNMP framework conventions but is not shown to extend a specific IETF CPU MIB. It is deployed on Dell managed switches where operators want early warning of CPU exhaustion before it causes dropped protocol adjacencies or slow management response. Engineers can download the Dell-CPU-COUNTERS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Dell managed network switches
Monitoring Examples
No sample objects were supplied, but the expected pattern is a CPU utilization table (e.g., a per-interval or per-core cpuUtilTable/cpuUtilEntry) exposing 1-minute, 5-minute, and 1-hour average CPU load figures. An operator would alert when the 5-minute CPU utilization value crosses a high threshold, which often correlates with routing protocol flaps or slow SSH/web-management response on the switch. This remains an inference based on the MIB's stated purpose rather than a confirmed object list.
What Can Be Monitored
- CPU utilization percentage
- CPU load averages over time intervals
- control-plane processing load
Imported Objects
From Dell-MIB
| rnd | MODULE-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Counter32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| TruthValue |
OIDs
RFC description
Tracks CPU transmit and receive packet counters for broadcast, multicast, and unicast traffic.
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