H3C-BPA-MIB

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Organization: Hangzhou H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.

Last Updated: 2013-11-13

Category: Domain: DSL/xPON, Vendor: H3C/HH3C

Description: H3C MIB for Bandwidth Policy Accounting (BPA) tracking bandwidth usage and policy enforcement per subscriber.

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What Is H3C-BPA-MIB?

H3C-BPA-MIB is an H3C-specific module that, despite its common "Bandwidth Policy Accounting" label, is documented in its MODULE-IDENTITY as managing BGP Policy Accounting — counting IP packets that match a user-defined BGP routing policy. It exposes a configuration table (direction, source-or-destination classification, row status) that defines which policies to account, and a statistics table tracking per-traffic-type packet and octet counters. As a monitoring tool it surfaces traffic-engineering/billing-oriented performance counters — inbound/outbound packet and byte counts per policy class — rather than hardware health, letting an operator see how much traffic flows through each configured BGP policy bucket. It depends conceptually on BGP routing policy configuration elsewhere on the device (policies must exist before they can be accounted) but defines no direct MIB import dependency beyond standard SNMP conventions. It is typically deployed on H3C core/edge routers running BGP where operators need per-policy traffic accounting for capacity planning or interconnect billing. Engineers can download the H3C-BPA-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in H3C-BPA-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

H3C routers
H3C BGP-capable edge/core devices

Monitoring Examples

Polling h3cBpaStatTable / h3cBpaStatEntry indexed by h3cBpaTrafficIndex and h3cBpaTrafficType reveals h3cBpaInPacketCount, h3cBpaInOctetCount, and h3cBpaOutPacketCount for each accounted traffic class. An admin cross-references these counters against h3cBpaCfgTable entries (h3cBpaDirection, h3cBpaSrcOrDest) to confirm which BGP-policy-classified flows are consuming the most bandwidth. A sudden counter reset or a flat-lined h3cBpaInOctetCount can indicate the accounting policy stopped matching traffic, e.g. after a routing change.

What Can Be Monitored

per-policy inbound/outbound packet counts
per-policy octet counts
accounted traffic direction
accounted traffic type
BGP policy accounting configuration status

Imported Objects

From HUAWEI-3COM-OID-MIB

h3cCommon

OBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

ifIndex

OBJECT-TYPE

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddressType

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using h3cBpaInPacketCount OID:

Select an H3C router (BGP Policy Accounting) 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 h3cBpaInPacketCount 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 total number of received packets with the specified traffic type and traffic index. 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
h3cBpa	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144			This MIB contains objects that manage the configuration and information of BGP policy accounting. It accounts IP packets by user defined BGP policy.
h3cBpaObjects	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1
h3cBpaCfgTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.1		not-accessible	A table for BGP policy accounting configuration.
h3cBpaCfgEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.1.1		not-accessible	An entry for BGP policy accounting configuration.
INT h3cBpaDirection	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.1.1.1	INTEGER	not-accessible	Identify the direction of IP packets on which BGP policy accounting takes effect. input :input direction output :output direction
INT h3cBpaSrcOrDest	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.1.1.2	INTEGER	read-create	Identify IP packet's Destination or Source IP address that BGP policy accounting relies on. source :source IP address of the IP packet destination :destination IP address of the IP packet both :both source and destination IP addresses
ROW h3cBpaRowStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.1.1.3	RowStatus	read-create	This object manages the creation, deletion, and modification of rows in the h3cBpaCfgTable, which supports the active status, createAndGo operation, and destroy operation.
h3cBpaStatTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.2		not-accessible	A table for BGP policy accounting statistics.
h3cBpaStatEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.2.1		not-accessible	An entry for BGP policy accounting statistics.
IPt h3cBpaTrafficType	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.2.1.1	InetAddressType	not-accessible	Type of IP packets, IPv4 or IPv6.
I32 h3cBpaTrafficIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.2.1.2	Integer32	not-accessible	Traffic index generated by a BGP policy.
C64 h3cBpaInPacketCountEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.2.1.3	Counter64	read-only	The total number of received packets with the specified traffic type and traffic index.
C64 h3cBpaInOctetCount	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.2.1.4	Counter64	read-only	The total number of received bytes with the specified traffic type and traffic index.
C64 h3cBpaOutPacketCount	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.2.1.5	Counter64	read-only	The total number of output packets with the specified traffic type and traffic index.
C64 h3cBpaOutOctetCount	1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.10.2.144.1.2.1.6	Counter64	read-only	The total number of output bytes with the specified traffic type and traffic index.

RFC description

Proprietary MIB module for H3C (joint venture of Huawei and formerly 3Com) network devices. Defines management objects for system configuration and monitoring on H3C switches and routing equipment.

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