FOUNDRY-BFD-STD-MIB

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Organization: IETF

Last Updated: 2005-07-22

Category: Technology: Routing, Vendor: Foundry/Brocade

Description: Brocade Foundry BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) MIB providing session state and diagnostic monitoring for fast link failure detection.

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What Is FOUNDRY-BFD-STD-MIB?

FOUNDRY-BFD-STD-MIB is a Brocade (formerly Foundry Networks) MIB implementing Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), a lightweight protocol used to rapidly detect failures in the forwarding path between two adjacent routing devices. It exposes BFD session state, configured timers/intervals, and diagnostic codes describing why a session transitioned states, per session and per interface. Its monitoring value is chiefly a software/protocol-health indicator, confirming BFD sessions to neighboring routers remain in the Up state, since a session dropping to Down signals a fast-detected link or forwarding-path failure that will trigger routing reconvergence. It closely tracks the structure of the IETF standard BFD MIB and is typically used alongside standard routing-protocol MIBs (OSPF, BGP) that rely on BFD for fast failure detection. It is deployed on Brocade/Foundry routers and Layer 3 switches in networks requiring sub-second link-failure detection. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the FOUNDRY-BFD-STD-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in FOUNDRY-BFD-STD-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

  • Brocade (Foundry) routers and Layer 3 switches

Monitoring Examples

No specific object or table names were captured for this MIB, so exact polling targets cannot be confirmed, but consistent with standard BFD MIB design an admin would expect to poll a BFD session table for each session's current state (Up/Down/AdminDown), local/remote discriminators, and negotiated detection timers. A session unexpectedly showing Down while the underlying physical link is up would point to a BFD timer mismatch or software issue rather than a physical failure.

What Can Be Monitored

  • BFD session state (up/down)
  • session diagnostic/failure code
  • negotiated detection timers
  • local/remote session discriminators
Imported Objects

From FOUNDRY-SN-ROOT-MIB

bfdOBJECT-IDENTITY

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
StorageType
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using bfdSessPerfPktInHC OID:

Select a Brocade/Foundry router/Layer 3 switch (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) 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 bfdSessPerfPktInHC into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. This value represents the total number of BFD messages received for this BFD session. 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 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

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) management for path failure detection and session monitoring.

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