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Organization: Huawei Technologies co.,Ltd.
Last Updated: 2003-02-28
Category: Vendor: Huawei
Description: Huawei VFB (Virtual Forwarding Bridge) MIB for managing virtual bridge instances in multi-tenant network virtualization.
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What Is HUAWEI-VFB-MIB?
HUAWEI-VFB-MIB is a Huawei enterprise MIB for managing Virtual Forwarding Bridge (VFB) instances, a construct used in network virtualization to create isolated Layer 2 forwarding domains for multi-tenant environments. It exposes configuration and status objects for VFB instances and their associated ports, describing how virtual bridges are provisioned and which physical or logical ports belong to each. Its monitoring value is in confirming the software-defined state of virtual bridging: verifying that VFB instances exist as configured and that port memberships match intended tenant separation, which is important for diagnosing cross-tenant traffic leakage or missing connectivity. It builds on general bridging concepts similar to those in HUAWEI-TRANSPARENTBRIDGE-MIB and standard bridge MIBs. Deployment context is Huawei switches or routers supporting network virtualization/multi-tenancy, such as data center or carrier virtualized access networks. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the HUAWEI-VFB-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Huawei switch
- Huawei virtualization-capable router
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would query VFB port-membership objects (following the pattern the MIB describes for maintaining VFB ports) to confirm a given port is correctly assigned to the expected virtual bridge instance, and an incorrect or missing assignment would explain a tenant's traffic not being isolated or forwarded as expected.
What Can Be Monitored
- VFB instance configuration
- VFB port membership
- virtual bridge status
Imported Objects
From HUAWEI-MIB
| huaweiUtility | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From IF-MIB
| ifIndex | OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
OIDs
RFC description
Maintains and configures Huawei VFB voice ports with gain control and operational parameters.
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