All MIBs › HPN-ICF-CONTEXT-MIB
Last Updated: 2014-03-18
Category: Technology: Routing/L3, Technology: VLAN, Vendor: H3C/HH3C, Vendor: HP/HPE
Description: HP Networking ICF SNMP MIB for virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) context management on HP networking devices.
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What Is HPN-ICF-CONTEXT-MIB?
HPN-ICF-CONTEXT-MIB is an HPE/H3C Comware ICF private MIB used to manage "contexts" — virtual routing/forwarding partitions that let a single physical switch or router behave as multiple logical devices. It defines a control table (hpnicfContextControlTable/Entry) keyed by hpnicfContextIndex and holding hpnicfContextName, along with a notification group for context-related events. Rather than hardware health, its monitoring value is configuration/state visibility: confirming which contexts exist, their names, and whether context creation/deletion operations succeeded. Its notification objects (hpnicfContextNotification/NotificationObjects) can alert an operator to unexpected context lifecycle changes, important in multi-tenant deployments. It relies on standard SNMPv2-CONF/TC conventions and is used on HPE/H3C Comware core and edge routers supporting virtualized routing contexts. Engineers can download the HPN-ICF-CONTEXT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- HPE/H3C Comware routers
- HPE/H3C Comware switches
Monitoring Examples
An operator walks hpnicfContextControlTable to enumerate configured contexts by hpnicfContextIndex and hpnicfContextName, verifying expected virtual routing partitions (e.g., per-customer VRFs) are present and correctly named. An unexpected disappearance of an entry, or an hpnicfContextNotification trap firing outside a planned maintenance window, would flag an unauthorized or accidental context deletion affecting that customer's routing domain.
What Can Be Monitored
- configured context index/name list
- context creation/deletion status
- context lifecycle notifications
Imported Objects
From HPN-ICF-OID-MIB
| hpnicfCommon | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString |
OIDs
RFC description
Manages context operations and configuration for HP Networking devices, enabling virtual routing domains.
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