All MIBs › HUAWEI-MEMORY-MIB
Organization: HAUWEI MIB Standard community
Last Updated: 2002-12-29
Category: Device Management, Domain: Server/Host Monitoring, Hardware and Environment, Vendor: Huawei
Description:
Huawei memory MIB providing memory utilization, pool allocation statistics, and threshold alerts for device memory resources.
Imported Objects
From HUAWEI-DEVICE-MIB
| hwFrameIndex | OBJECT-TYPE |
| hwSlotIndex | OBJECT-TYPE |
From HUAWEI-MIB
| hwDev | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE | |
| Unsigned32 |
What Is HUAWEI-MEMORY-MIB?
HUAWEI-MEMORY-MIB is a Huawei proprietary SNMP module that models memory resource consumption on Huawei networking equipment such as routers, switches, and access devices. It exposes device performance data in the categories of memory pool allocation, overall utilization percentage, and threshold-based alarm state. It is used directly for monitoring the software/hardware health of a device by reporting how much memory is in use relative to configured warning and critical thresholds, letting operators catch a slow memory leak or sudden exhaustion in a running process before the device becomes unstable, drops sessions, or reboots. It is typically polled alongside standard MIB-II objects and Huawei's other performance MIBs (e.g. CPU/interface utilization) to build a complete resource-health picture rather than being used in isolation. Deployment is via an NMS/EMS periodically polling Huawei carrier and enterprise routers/switches for capacity trending and automated memory-threshold alerting. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the HUAWEI-MEMORY-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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What Can Be Monitored
- overall memory utilization percentage
- memory pool allocation/usage
- free vs. used memory
- memory threshold alarm status
- memory usage trend over time
Supported Devices
- Huawei routers
- Huawei switches
Monitoring Examples
No sample object names were provided for this module, so specifics beyond the module description cannot be grounded in real leaf names. In general terms, an administrator would poll the device's overall and per-pool memory utilization values on a schedule and compare them against the configured alarm thresholds. A steadily climbing utilization trend, rather than a stable sawtooth pattern, is the signature of a memory leak in a background process. Catching this early lets the operator restart the offending process or schedule a maintenance reboot before the device runs out of memory and starts dropping control-plane sessions.
OIDs
| OID symbolic | OID numeric | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hwMemoryDev | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5 | This mib module defines the memory information. NMS can query memory utilization statistics from device by the mib. | ||
| hwMemoryDevTable | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.1 | not-accessible | This table provides the information of all memory utilization statistics of device. It contains the total size, the free size, the used size, and so on. | |
| hwMemoryDevEntry | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.1.1 | not-accessible | The Entries of hwMemoryDevTable. The table is indexed by hwFrameIndex, hwSlotIndex and hwMemoryDevModuleIndex, hwFrameIndex - the index of frame of the device. for example, hwFrameIndex equals 0 in NE16. hwSlotIndex - the slot number of the device, the MAX value varies with different devices. hwMemoryDevModuleIndex - for the purpose of extension.In single CPU devices (NE16,eg.), its value equals 0. | |
| I32 hwMemoryDevModuleIndex | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.1.1.1 | Integer32 | not-accessible | The object is used only for the purpose of extension,In single CPU devices (NE16,eg.), hwMemoryDevModuleIndex equals 0. |
| U32 hwMemoryDevSize | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.1.1.2 | Unsigned32 | read-only | The object indicates the total size of the memory in bytes, which is on the managed object. |
| U32 hwMemoryDevFree | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.1.1.3 | Unsigned32 | read-only | The object indicates the free size of the memory in bytes. |
| U32 hwMemoryDevRawSliceUsed | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.1.1.4 | Unsigned32 | read-only | The object indicates the used size of the raw slice memory in bytes. |
| U32 hwMemoryDevLargestFree | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.1.1.5 | Unsigned32 | read-only | The object indicates the largest number of contiguous bytes from the memory that are currently unused on the managed object. |
| I32 hwMemoryDevFail | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.1.1.6 | Integer32 | read-only | The object indicates the count of memory allocation failures. |
| I32 hwMemoryDevFailNoMem | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.1.1.7 | Integer32 | read-only | The object indicates the count of memory allocation failures due to no free memory. |
| hwBufferTable | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.2 | not-accessible | This table provides the inquiry of buffer utilization statistics of device. The type of the buffer is classified by size: 32 bytes, 64 bytes,...,etc. | |
| hwBufferEntry | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.2.1 | not-accessible | The Entries of hwBufferTable. The hwBufferTable is indexed by hwFrameIndex, hwSlotIndex, hwBufferModuleIndex and hwBufferSize. hwFrameIndex - the index of frame of the device. for example, hwFrameIndex equals 0 in NE16. hwSlotIndex - the slot number of the device, the MAX value varies with different types of devices. hwBufferModuleIndex - for the purpose of extension.In single CPU devices (NE16,eg.),hwBufferModuleIndex equals 0. hwBufferSize - the size in bytes of the buffer,such as 32 bytes,64 bytes, ...,etc. | |
| I32 hwBufferModuleIndex | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.2.1.1 | Integer32 | not-accessible | The object is used only for the purpose of extension,In single CPU devices (NE16,eg.),hwBufferModuleIndex equals 0. |
| I32 hwBufferSize | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.2.1.2 | Integer32 | not-accessible | The object indicates the size of the buffers in bytes, such as 32 bytes, 64 bytes,...,etc. |
| I32 hwBufferCurrentTotal | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.2.1.3 | Integer32 | read-only | The object indicates the total number of the buffer currently. |
| I32 hwBufferCurrentUsed | 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.5.2.1.4 | Integer32 | read-only | The object indicates the used number of the buffer currently. |
RFC description
Monitors memory utilization statistics on Huawei network devices, including total, free, and used memory sizes.
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