HUAWEI-IPMCAST-MIB

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Organization: Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd.

Last Updated: 2014-07-01

Category: Technology: Multicast, Vendor: Huawei

Description: Huawei IP multicast MIB for managing PIM, IGMP, and multicast routing table entries and multicast forwarding on Huawei Layer 3 platforms.

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What Is HUAWEI-IPMCAST-MIB?

HUAWEI-IPMCAST-MIB is a Huawei enterprise MIB for managing IP multicast routing and forwarding on Huawei Layer 3 switches and routers, covering protocols such as PIM and IGMP referenced in its description. It exposes global multicast enable/disable state, multicast routing table size, and a per-interface table of multicast statistics and configuration. The MIB is squarely focused on operational/performance monitoring: it tracks per-interface multicast packet and octet counters (in/out), TTL and rate-limit settings, and the size of the multicast route table, letting an operator gauge multicast traffic volume and whether route-table growth is approaching capacity. It depends conceptually on standard IP multicast/PIM/IGMP concepts and complements the standard IETF IP-MIB and PIM-MIB rather than replacing them. It is deployed on Huawei carrier and enterprise routing/switching platforms delivering IPTV, video conferencing, or other multicast-distributed content where administrators need to monitor multicast traffic health per interface. Engineers can download the HUAWEI-IPMCAST-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in HUAWEI-IPMCAST-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

  • Huawei Layer 3 switches/routers

Monitoring Examples

An admin can poll hwIpMcastInterfaceTable/hwIpMcastInterfaceEntry (indexed by hwIpMcastInterfaceIfIndex and hwIpMcastInterfaceIpVersion) to read hwIpMcastInterfaceInMcastPkts and hwIpMcastInterfaceOutMcastOctets, spotting an interface whose multicast traffic has unexpectedly dropped to zero. Checking hwIpMcastRouteEntryCount against a configured maximum reveals multicast routing table pressure, while hwIpMcastInterfaceRateLimit shows whether rate-limiting is suppressing multicast forwarding on a given link.

What Can Be Monitored

  • multicast enable state
  • multicast route table size
  • per-interface multicast packet/octet counters
  • multicast rate-limit settings
  • interface TTL configuration
Imported Objects

From HUAWEI-MIB

hwDatacommOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IANA-RTPROTO-MIB

IANAipMRouteProtocol
IANAipRouteProtocol

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
InterfaceIndexOrZero

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressPrefixLength
InetAddressType
InetVersion
InetZoneIndex

From P-BRIDGE-MIB

EnabledStatus

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus
StorageType
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using hwIpMcastInterfaceInMcastOctets OID:

Select a Huawei Layer 3 switch or router (IP multicast routing/forwarding) 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 hwIpMcastInterfaceInMcastOctets 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 number of octets of multicast packets that have arrived on the interface, including framing characters. 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

RFC description

Manages IP Multicast routing, data forwarding, and reception with support for multicast source-group thresholds.

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