All MIBs › Dell-WeightedRandomTailDrop-MIB
Organization: Dell
Last Updated: 2009-09-29
Category: Technology: QoS, Vendor: Dell
Description: Configures Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED/WRTD) queue drop policies on Dell switches.
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What Is Dell-WeightedRandomTailDrop-MIB?
Dell-WeightedRandomTailDrop-MIB is a Dell Networking (Force10-heritage) vendor MIB for configuring Weighted Random Early Detection / Weighted Random Tail Drop (WRED/WRTD) congestion-management policies on switch queues. It exposes a small set of status objects, notably rlWeightedRandomTailDropCurrentStatus and rlWeightedRandomTailDropStatusAfterReset, indicating whether the feature is currently enabled and what its state will be after the next reboot. Its monitoring relevance is narrow but useful for QoS/performance troubleshooting: verifying whether random-drop congestion avoidance is active helps explain queue drop behavior and packet loss patterns under load, rather than reporting hardware health like temperature or power. It is a small feature-configuration MIB that depends on the switch's broader QoS/queue-management MIB set for queue-level statistics. It's deployed in Dell switch environments where administrators need to confirm or audit whether WRED-based congestion control is enabled as part of QoS tuning. Engineers can download the Dell-WeightedRandomTailDrop-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Dell Networking switch (Force10-based)
Monitoring Examples
An administrator investigating unexplained packet drops during traffic bursts would poll rlWeightedRandomTailDropCurrentStatus to confirm whether WRED-based tail-drop is presently enabled, and check rlWeightedRandomTailDropStatusAfterReset to see if a pending configuration change will take effect on next reboot. A mismatch between the two values flags a configuration that hasn't yet been applied, a common source of confusion during QoS policy rollout.
What Can Be Monitored
- WRED/WRTD current enabled status
- WRED/WRTD status pending reset
Imported Objects
From Dell-MIB
| rnd | MODULE-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
OIDs
RFC description
Manages Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) queue management policy configuration and statistics on Dell network devices.
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