FORCE10-QOS-MIB

Description: Dell Force10 Networks QoS MIB providing objects for managing quality of service policies, traffic classes, and queue statistics on FTOS devices.

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FORCE10-QOS-MIB is Dell Force10 Networks' proprietary MIB for FTOS-based switches/routers, providing objects to configure and monitor Quality of Service (QoS) policies, including policy-maps applied to interfaces and traffic classification/queueing behavior. It exposes general categories of configuration data: a per-interface policy-map association table, a global policy-map definition table (name, direction, honoring behavior), and WRED profile limits, alongside a version identifier for the QoS MIB itself. This is primarily a configuration/policy-status MIB — an admin uses it to confirm which QoS policy-map is applied to a given interface and in which direction (ingress/egress), verifying the software-level traffic-management configuration is active as intended, rather than reporting hardware component health. There is no strong external MIB dependency beyond standard SNMP SMI conventions, though it works alongside IF-MIB for ifIndex-based interface correlation. It is deployed on Dell Force10 FTOS switches/routers in data-center and enterprise networks requiring per-interface traffic prioritization and congestion management (WRED), where FORCE10-QOS-MIB SNMP monitoring confirms the right policy-maps are bound to the right interfaces.

An admin would poll f10QosIfPolicyMapTable/Entry, keyed by ifIndex and f10QosIfPolicyMapIndex, to confirm which QoS policy-map is applied to a specific interface and check f10QosIfPolicyMapRowStatus to verify the binding is active. Cross-referencing f10QosPolicyMapTable/Entry (f10QosPolicyMapName, f10QosPolicyMapDirection, f10QosPolicyMapHonoring) reveals the actual classification rules and directionality of that policy. If an interface's f10QosIfPolicyMapTable entry is missing or its row status is not active, that would explain why traffic on that link isn't receiving its expected QoS treatment despite the policy-map being defined globally.

Configures Quality of Service policies, queues, and traffic classes on Force10 switches.