FORCE10-BGP4-V2-MIB

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Organization: IETF IDR Working Group

Last Updated: 2007-04-27

Category: Protocol: BGP, Vendor: Dell

Description: Dell Force10 Networks BGP4 version 2 MIB providing enhanced BGP management objects and notifications for FTOS-based switches and routers.

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What Is FORCE10-BGP4-V2-MIB?

FORCE10-BGP4-V2-MIB is a Dell Force10 Networks (FTOS) enhanced version of the standard BGP4 routing protocol MIB, defining management objects for the Border Gateway Protocol version 4 on Force10 switches and routers. Consistent with the standard BGP4 model it extends, it would expose BGP peer session/state data, negotiated capabilities, and route/prefix counters. Its purpose is primarily control-plane software status monitoring rather than physical hardware health: tracking whether BGP peer sessions are established, flapping, or down serves as an indicator of the router's routing protocol health. It explicitly builds on and extends the standard IETF BGP4-MIB (RFC 4273) framework with Force10-specific additions. It is deployed on Dell Force10 (FTOS) switches and routers acting as BGP speakers in enterprise or service-provider IP core/edge networks. Engineers can download the FORCE10-BGP4-V2-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in FORCE10-BGP4-V2-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 (FTOS) switches and routers

Monitoring Examples

No concrete object names were supplied in the available data for this module, so a specific table/object polling scenario cannot be honestly constructed. In general, a BGP4 extension MIB of this kind is used to poll per-peer session state to detect adjacency flaps or failures to establish, but without real object names from this module that scenario would be invented rather than grounded, so it is described only in general terms here.

What Can Be Monitored

  • BGP peer session state
  • BGP peer capabilities negotiated
  • route/prefix counters
Imported Objects

From FORCE10-SMI

f10ExperimentOBJECT-IDENTITY

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressPrefixLength
InetAddressType
InetAutonomousSystemNumber
InetPortNumber

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

RowPointer
RowStatus
StorageType
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using f10BgpM2PathAttrCount OID:

Select a Dell Force10 (Dell Networking OS/FTOS) switch/router (BGP4 routing) 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 f10BgpM2PathAttrCount into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The number of entries in the f10BgpM2PathAttrTable. 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

Manages BGP v4 routing protocol on Force10 (Dell Networking) devices. Tracks peer state, route statistics, and inter-domain routing metrics.

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