FORCE10-MONITORING-MIB

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Organization: Force10 Networks, Inc.

Last Updated: 2008-12-18

Category: Alarm and Event Management, Hardware and Environment, Vendor: Dell

Description: Dell Force10 Networks system monitoring MIB providing environmental sensor, fan, power supply, and temperature objects for chassis health.

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What Is FORCE10-MONITORING-MIB?

FORCE10-MONITORING-MIB is Dell Force10 Networks' (FTOS) monitoring MIB that provides traffic and queue-level statistics and accounting objects across the Force10 switch/router product line. It exposes ingress queue counters - packets and bytes dropped, packets and bytes matched, and matched bit rate - per queue, tied to the underlying "Cyclone" packet processor, rather than general chassis environmental sensors. Its main monitoring value is performance/traffic-health visibility into the forwarding pipeline: f10InQueueDropPackets and f10InQueueBytes reveal queue congestion or drops, f10InQueueMatchPackets/MatchBytes/MatchBps show matched traffic volume and rate for QoS or ACL-based classification, and f10MonMibVersion/f10InQueueCycloneVersion expose software/hardware version information for the monitoring subsystem itself. It is a self-contained Force10 enterprise MIB with no evident dependency on other standard MIBs beyond conventional SNMPv2 table conventions. It is deployed on Dell Force10 FTOS switches and routers for traffic engineering, QoS validation, and capacity planning in data center and campus networks, where FORCE10-MONITORING-MIB SNMP monitoring gives operators continuous visibility into queue-level traffic health.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in FORCE10-MONITORING-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

Polling f10InQueueStatisticsTable/f10InQueueStatisticsEntry indexed by f10InQueueId lets an operator track f10InQueueDropPackets against f10InQueueMatchPackets to see what fraction of classified traffic on a given ingress queue is being dropped versus forwarded. A rising f10InQueueDropPackets counter alongside a low f10InQueueMatchBps would indicate the queue is oversubscribed relative to its configured rate, signaling impending congestion. f10MonMaxQueue tells the operator how many queues exist per interface so all can be enumerated, while f10InQueueCycloneVersion identifies the packet-processor firmware version in use.

What Can Be Monitored

  • per-queue dropped packets/bytes
  • per-queue matched packets/bytes/rate
  • number of queues per interface
  • packet processor (Cyclone) firmware version
  • monitoring MIB version
Imported Objects

From FORCE10-SMI

f10MgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From FORCE10-TC

F10CycloneVersion
F10PortPipeID
F10ProcessorModuleType
F10QueueID
F10SlotID
F10VlanID

From RFC1213-MIB

ifIndex

From SNMPv2-CONF

OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
MacAddress
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using f10InQueueDropPackets OID:

Select a Dell Force10 (Dell Networking OS/FTOS) switch/router (queue/traffic 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 f10InQueueDropPackets 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. The number of packets dropped from the ingress queue. 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 Counter64-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Force10 monitoring MIB providing statistics, accounting, and queue management metrics for Force10 switches and routers.

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