HPN-ICF-MINM-MIB

Description: Manages the Multicast In-Network Management (MINM) protocol for multicast tree management on HP/Comware devices.

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HPN-ICF-MINM-MIB is an HP Networking (Comware/H3C) vendor MIB implementing management for 802.1ah MAC-in-MAC (Provider Backbone Bridging) style multicast in-network management, tracking backbone MAC addressing, virtual switch instances (VSI), uplinks, and connections used to tunnel customer traffic across a provider backbone. It exposes the device's own backbone MAC address and capabilities, a VSI table describing each virtual switching instance's backbone VLAN and encapsulation settings, an uplink table for the ports carrying encapsulated traffic toward the backbone, and a connection table tracking active MAC-in-MAC connections. For hardware/software status monitoring, the uplink and connection tables' row status let an operator confirm that backbone tunnels are correctly established and active, revealing a failed or misconfigured provider-backbone connection that would isolate a customer's virtual switch instance from the rest of the network. It is built on 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging concepts and is a self-contained vendor MIB rather than a direct extension of a widely-deployed IETF MIB. It is deployed on HP/H3C Comware provider-edge or backbone switches implementing MAC-in-MAC encapsulation for carrier-grade Ethernet services. Engineers can download the HPN-ICF-MINM-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

An administrator would poll hpnicfMinmVsiTable (via hpnicfMinmVsiBvlan and hpnicfMinmVsiReEncapsulation) to confirm each virtual switch instance's backbone VLAN and encapsulation mode are set as expected, and check hpnicfMinmUplinkTable/hpnicfMinmUplinkRowStatus to verify the uplink carrying that VSI's traffic toward the backbone is active. The hpnicfMinmConnectionTable would be inspected to confirm an active MAC-in-MAC connection exists for a given customer service, with a missing or non-active entry indicating the backbone tunnel for that VSI has failed to establish. hpnicfMinmBmac identifies the device's own backbone MAC address used in these encapsulated frames.

Manages 802.1ah MAC-in-MAC encapsulation configuration and capabilities on HP switches.