F5-BIGIP-COMMON-MIB

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Organization: F5 Networks, Inc.

Last Updated: 2016-03-02

Category: Textual Conventions and Registries, Web and Application Servers

Description: F5 BIG-IP common MIB defining shared textual conventions and base objects used across all BIG-IP product MIB modules.

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What Is F5-BIGIP-COMMON-MIB?

F5-BIGIP-COMMON-MIB is F5 Networks' common/root MIB module defining the shared top-level OID infrastructure, notification object definitions, and conformance groups used across all BIG-IP product MIB modules (LTM, GTM, ASM, and others). Rather than exposing its own device-status data, it provides the shared notification objects — such as message text, node, and port identifiers used in traps — and the compliance/conformance framework that BIG-IP's other MIBs build on. Its main monitoring relevance is indirect: the notification objects it defines (bigipNotifyObjMsg, bigipNotifyObjNode, bigipNotifyObjPort) are used by BIG-IP traps that report hardware and software fault conditions, such as failover events or pool-member failures. It is a dependency root for the full family of F5 BIG-IP MIB modules, which import its trap and conformance objects. It is deployed on F5 BIG-IP application delivery controllers and load balancers in enterprise and service-provider data centers, and administrators typically download F5-BIGIP-COMMON-MIB alongside the product-specific modules before loading them into their monitoring platform.

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Supported Devices

  • F5 rSeries r5000 — current F5OS-based BIG-IP hardware appliance
  • F5 rSeries r10000 — current high-end BIG-IP hardware appliance

Monitoring Examples

This module defines mostly notification/trap object placeholders and conformance groups rather than pollable runtime tables — for example, an incoming BIG-IP trap would carry bigipNotifyObjMsg (the alert text), bigipNotifyObjNode, and bigipNotifyObjPort to identify what triggered it — but it has no device-status table of its own to poll for a numeric or state value.

What Can Be Monitored

  • trap/notification message text
  • node identifier in notifications
  • port identifier in notifications
Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
OIDs

RFC description

F5 Networks enterprise MIB defining common infrastructure for BIG-IP load balancers.

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