GANDI-MIB

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Organization: Gandi SAS - www.gandi.net

Last Updated: 2015-10-30

Category: Vendor: Gandi, Web and Application Servers

Description: Gandi SAS MIB for monitoring domain registrar and hosting infrastructure services and resource utilization.

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What Is GANDI-MIB?

GANDI-MIB is a private MIB used by Gandi SAS, the domain registrar and hosting provider, to expose internal SNMP monitoring objects for its network/packet-processing infrastructure. It centers on packet-counter tables tracking received, transmitted, and dropped traffic, including separate breakdowns for ACL-based drops and rate-limit-based drops, plus a "kni" (kernel network interface, likely a DPDK-style fast-path) receive counter. This is primarily a traffic/performance and fault-indication MIB: rising drop counters are the key signal of overload, misconfigured ACLs, or rate-limiting kicking in on Gandi's infrastructure, functioning like a hardware/software throughput health check rather than exposing classic environmental sensors. No dependency on standard MIBs is indicated; it appears to be a bespoke internal-operations MIB. It would be deployed strictly within Gandi's own hosting/network infrastructure for internal capacity and anomaly monitoring, not on customer-facing equipment. Engineers can download the GANDI-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in GANDI-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

vendor-neutral packet-processing/network infrastructure node (Gandi internal use)

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll rxCounter and txCounter in statTable/totalTable to baseline normal traffic levels, then watch dropCounter, acldropCounter, and ratedropCounter for sudden increases that would indicate an ACL misconfiguration or a rate-limiting policy being triggered by a traffic spike. The kniCounters group's knirxCounter would be checked to confirm the kernel network interface fast path is still receiving traffic as expected, useful when diagnosing whether packet loss is happening in the fast path versus further upstream. pktjTable appears to track per-job or per-queue packet counts for finer-grained attribution of the same traffic.

What Can Be Monitored

received/transmitted packet counts
dropped packet counts
ACL-based drop counts
rate-limit drop counts
kernel network interface receive counter

Imported Objects

From RFC1155-SMI

enterprises

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using rxCounter OID:

Select a Gandi SAS internal network infrastructure (packet-processing node) 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 rxCounter into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports rX packets. 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

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
gandiMIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384			The MIB module describe our SNMP Objects
pktjTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1		not-accessible	The Packet Journey table OID.
statTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1		not-accessible	Packet Journey statistics OID.
totalTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1		not-accessible	Total counters
packetsCounters	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.1		not-accessible	RX and TX counters passed into DPDK
C64 rxCounterEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.1.0	Counter64	read-only	RX packets
C64 txCounter	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.1.1	Counter64	read-only	TX packets
dropCounters	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.2		not-accessible	Dropped packets counters passed into DPDK
C64 dropCounter	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.2.0	Counter64	read-only	Dropped counter
C64 acldropCounter	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.2.1	Counter64	read-only	ACL Dropped counter
C64 ratedropCounter	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.2.2	Counter64	read-only	Rate Dropped counter
kniCounters	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.3		not-accessible	KNI counters
C64 knirxCounter	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.3.0	Counter64	read-only	KNI RX counter
C64 knitxCounter	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.3.1	Counter64	read-only	KNI TX counter
C64 knidropCounter	1.3.6.1.4.1.26384.1.1.1.3.2	Counter64	read-only	KNI DROP counter

RFC description

Vendor-specific MIB for Gandi (domain registrar/hosting provider) management. Provides monitoring and management of Gandi-hosted services and infrastructure.

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