F10-FPSTATS-MIB

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Organization: Dell Inc

Last Updated: 2013-02-20

Category: Technology: Traffic Monitoring, Vendor: Dell/DNOS

Description: Dell Force10 MIB for forwarding processor statistics, reporting packet and byte counters for each line card processor.

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What Is F10-FPSTATS-MIB?

F10-FPSTATS-MIB is a Dell Force10 (Dell Networking OS) enterprise MIB that reports forwarding-plane statistics for each line-card forwarding processor (FP/CPU data-plane) in Force10 chassis switches. It belongs to the data-center/core switching technology area and exposes per-stack-unit packet- and buffer-handling counters such as receive counts, drop counts, receive errors, and various memory-buffer allocation failure counters for the forwarding processor's data path. Its monitoring value is in forwarding-plane performance and fault detection: tracking counters like fpDropped, fpRxError, and fpRxDatapathError against fpRecvd reveals whether a line card's forwarding processor is experiencing packet loss, buffer exhaustion (fpNoMhdr, fpNoMBuf, fpNoClus), or datapath errors that would degrade switch throughput. It is a Dell Force10 proprietary extension layered on top of standard interface/forwarding concepts (e.g., IF-MIB) rather than reusing a specific IETF forwarding MIB. Typical deployment context is Dell Force10 (now Dell EMC Networking) data-center core and aggregation switches where per-linecard forwarding statistics are used to isolate performance problems to specific stack units. Engineers can download the F10-FPSTATS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in F10-FPSTATS-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 Force10 chassis switch

Monitoring Examples

An administrator walks fpCpuDataPlaneTable/fpCpuDataPlaneStatsEntry indexed by fpStackUnitIndex to compare fpRecvd against fpDropped and fpRecvToNet for each stack unit's forwarding processor, looking for an unusually high drop ratio. Rising fpNoMhdr, fpNoMBuf, or fpNoClus counts would indicate the forwarding processor is running out of packet buffer resources under load, while nonzero fpRxError or fpRxDatapathError values point to a hardware or datapath fault on that specific stack unit's forwarding processor.

What Can Be Monitored

  • forwarding processor received packets
  • dropped packets
  • receive errors
  • datapath errors
  • buffer allocation failures (mhdr/mbuf/cluster)
Imported Objects

From FORCE10-SMI

f10MgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using fpPartyBusInputPackets OID:

Select a Dell Force10 chassis switch (forwarding-plane/line-card statistics) 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 fpPartyBusInputPackets 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 number of input packets. 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

Dell Networking forward plane statistics including data plane, CPU, and COS queue metrics.

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