HUAWEI-SWITCHOVER-MIB

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Organization: Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd.

Last Updated: 2012-02-10

Category: Technology: High Availability, Vendor: Huawei

Description: Huawei switchover MIB for managing active/standby control plane switchover events, GR (graceful restart) configuration, and NSF.

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What Is HUAWEI-SWITCHOVER-MIB?

HUAWEI-SWITCHOVER-MIB is a Huawei proprietary MIB for managing active/standby control-plane switchover on Huawei networking equipment with redundant control (route processor/main processing) boards, including graceful restart (GR) configuration and non-stop forwarding (NSF) support. It exposes objects related to triggering or configuring a switchover event, monitoring data synchronization status between the active and standby boards, and saving/duplicating configuration data across them. This MIB is directly about hardware/software high-availability status monitoring: it lets an operator verify that the standby control board's data is synchronized with the active board (critical for a clean failover) and track switchover events themselves, central to ensuring service continuity during a control-plane hardware fault or planned maintenance. It depends conceptually on standard GR/NSF routing-protocol behavior (e.g., graceful restart extensions to OSPF/BGP) even though it is a Huawei-specific management module. It is deployed on Huawei routers and switches equipped with dual/redundant control boards in carrier and enterprise core-network environments where high availability is required. Engineers can download the HUAWEI-SWITCHOVER-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in HUAWEI-SWITCHOVER-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 router/switch with redundant (active/standby) control boards

Monitoring Examples

Although no specific object names were provided, a switchover-management MIB of this kind is used to poll data-synchronization-status objects between active and standby control boards, alerting an operator if synchronization falls behind (which would make an eventual switchover disruptive), and to monitor or trigger the switchover process itself, along with associated GR/NSF configuration state, during planned maintenance or an active board failure.

Imported Objects

From HUAWEI-DEVICE-MIB

hwFrameIndexOBJECT-TYPE
hwSlotIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From HUAWEI-MIB

huaweiUtilityOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32
OIDs

RFC description

Huawei vendor-private MIB; defines switchover and redundancy management objects for Huawei network devices and systems.

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