IANA-MALLOC-MIB

Description: Defines the IANAscopeSource and IANAmallocRangeSource textual conventions for identifying how multicast address scope and range information is learned.

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IANA-MALLOC-MIB is an IETF/IANA-maintained textual-convention MIB defining the IANAscopeSource and IANAmallocRangeSource conventions used by other MIBs to identify how multicast address scope and range information was learned (e.g., statically configured versus dynamically allocated via MALLOC/MASC-style protocols). It contains no runtime data objects of its own; instead it standardizes an enumerated type referenced by multicast-address-allocation MIBs elsewhere. As a pure textual-convention module, it has no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status, uptime, temperature, CPU, or similar operational metrics on any device. Its entire purpose is a shared dependency: any MIB that models multicast scope/range allocation imports these conventions to represent the source of that information consistently, and changes to it require RFC publication or IESG Designated Expert review. It applies generically wherever multicast address allocation MIBs (e.g., for MALLOC/AAP/MASC-related management) are implemented on IP multicast-capable routers. Engineers can download the IANA-MALLOC-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

This is a conformance/textual-convention module with no data objects (sample_objects is empty), so there is no runtime monitoring scenario to describe; it exists solely to be imported by other MIBs that need a standardized enumeration for how multicast scope/range data was learned.

IANA-registered standard MIB for memory allocation statistics and heap management monitoring.