HP-ICF-DHCPV4-SERVER-MIB

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Organization: HP Networking

Last Updated: 2015-10-15

Category: Protocol: DHCP, Vendor: HP/HPE

Description: HP ICF SNMP MIB for DHCPv4 server configuration, pool management, and lease tracking on HP ProCurve switches.

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What Is HP-ICF-DHCPV4-SERVER-MIB?

HP-ICF-DHCPV4-SERVER-MIB is an HP-specific MIB (hpicfDhcpv4ServerMIB, under hpSwitch) that models the built-in DHCPv4/BOOTP server function on HP Networking (ProCurve/Aruba) switches. It covers global server configuration (hpicfDhcpv4ServerEnable, hpicfDhcpv4ServerVlanEnable, ping-before-offer parameters), lease-database persistence to a remote TFTP/SFTP file (hpicfDhcpv4ServerDBFile, hpicfDhcpv4ServerDBWriteDelay/Timeout, read/write status), protocol counters for both BOOTP and DHCP message types (hpicfBootpCountRequests/Replies, hpicfDhcpv4CountDiscovers/Offers/Requests/Acks/Naks/Declines/Releases/Informs/BadMsgs), and detailed IP-pool configuration in hpicfDhcpv4ServerPoolTable (network/mask, domain name, lease time, DNS/WINS/default-router/TFTP-server options, free-address high/low thresholds) alongside its companion range, option, dynamic-binding, and IP-conflict tables. It also defines notifications for pool exhaustion (hpicfDhcpv4ServerFreeAddressLow/High), duplicate-address detection, and per-interface lease-limit exhaustion. This is directly a monitoring MIB for DHCP service health on the switch — operators can track free-address exhaustion trending toward zero, rising bad-message or conflict counts, or lease-database write failures well before end users experience DHCP failures, and it depends on IF-MIB (via ifName) and SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB. It is deployed on HP switches acting as the DHCP server for their attached VLANs, making it a natural target when searching for the HP-ICF-DHCPV4-SERVER-MIB MIB in a MIB repository.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in HP-ICF-DHCPV4-SERVER-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

  • HP Networking / ProCurve switches with integrated DHCPv4 server

Monitoring Examples

An operator polls hpicfDhcpv4ServerPoolFreeAddresses against hpicfDhcpv4ServerPoolLowThreshold for a given pool; free addresses dropping to or below the low threshold (which also triggers a hpicfDhcpv4ServerFreeAddressLow notification) would indicate the subnet is running out of assignable IPv4 addresses.

What Can Be Monitored

  • DHCP pool free-address counts vs high/low thresholds
  • DHCPv4 message-type counters (discover/offer/ack/nak/etc.)
  • BOOTP request/reply counters
  • lease database write/read status and last-write time
  • dynamic and static binding tables
  • IP address conflict detections
Imported Objects

From HP-ICF-FTRCO

VidList

From HP-ICF-OID

hpSwitchOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

ifNameOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
MacAddress
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using hpicfDhcpServerDBFileWriteAttempts OID:

Select an HP ProCurve/Aruba switch (built-in DHCPv4/BOOTP server) 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 hpicfDhcpServerDBFileWriteAttempts into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the number of attempts that have been made to write the DHCP lease database to a configured file location. 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 Counter32-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

MIB for DHCPv4 server implementation including BOOTP, address pools, and lease management.

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