FASTPATH-KEYING-PRIVATE-MIB

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Organization: Netgear

Last Updated: 2007-05-23

Description: FASTPATH-KEYING-PRIVATE-MIB module

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What Is FASTPATH-KEYING-PRIVATE-MIB?

FASTPATH-KEYING-PRIVATE-MIB is NETGEAR's proprietary MIB for its FastPath switch software's feature-keying/licensing utility, used to enable or disable optional software features on the device via license keys rather than to monitor hardware sensors. It exposes objects to submit an enabling key or a disabling key for a given feature, along with a table that presumably tracks which features/keys have been applied and their status. Its relevance to device status monitoring is on the software-licensing/configuration side: an operator can check which optional features are currently keyed on or off, helping confirm that a purchased feature license is actually active and explaining unexpected feature unavailability. No dependency on other standard MIBs is evident from the available information; it appears to be a self-contained private extension within NETGEAR's FastPath enterprise tree. It is deployed on NETGEAR FastPath-based managed switches where optional software features are unlocked through license keys post-deployment, tracked via the FASTPATH-KEYING-PRIVATE-MIB MIB.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in FASTPATH-KEYING-PRIVATE-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

NETGEAR FastPath-based managed switches

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll the agentFeatureKeyingTable / agentFeatureKeyingEntry to see which optional features currently have an active key applied, and would use agentFeatureKeyingEnableKey or agentFeatureKeyingDisableKey (via SNMP SET) to toggle a specific feature. If a purchased feature isn't behaving as licensed, checking this table would confirm whether its enabling key was actually applied successfully.

What Can Be Monitored

feature license/key status
enabled vs. disabled software features

Imported Objects

From Netgear-MIB

ng7000managedswitch

OBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

RowPointer
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using agentFeatureKeyingStatus OID:

Select a Broadcom FastPath-based Ethernet switch (multi-vendor OEM) (feature license keying utility) 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 agentFeatureKeyingStatus 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. Returns a value of (1) if the feature is enabled for management, (2) if disabled. 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 an INTEGER-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the value is anything other than 'enable', since that indicates the condition this object reports has changed to one worth investigating. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
fastPathKeyingPrivate	1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.10.24			The NETGEAR Private MIB for FASTPATH Keying Utility
agentFeatureKeyingGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.10.24.1
STR agentFeatureKeyingEnableKey	1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.10.24.1.1	DisplayString	read-write	Hexadecimal Key-string entered to enable an advance functionality.
STR agentFeatureKeyingDisableKey	1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.10.24.1.2	DisplayString	read-write	Hexadecimal Key-string entered to disable an advance functionality.
agentFeatureKeyingTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.10.24.1.3		not-accessible	A table for license key and associated functionality.
agentFeatureKeyingEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.10.24.1.3.1		not-accessible	Represents entry for key table
U32 agentFeatureKeyingIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.10.24.1.3.1.1	Unsigned32	not-accessible	A value corresponding to a keyable feature.When this table is walked, only values associated with keyable features are returned.This value must be equivalent to valid value of agentFeatureKeyingIndex.
STR agentFeatureKeyingName	1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.10.24.1.3.1.2	DisplayString	read-only	The abbreviated name of this component.This is also equivalent to agentFeatureKeyingName
INT agentFeatureKeyingStatusEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.10.24.1.3.1.3	INTEGER	read-only	Returns a value of (1) if the feature is enabled for management, (2) if disabled.

RFC description

Manages NETGEAR Fastpath feature licensing and keying utility for enabling/disabling advanced functionality with license keys.

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