IBM-INTERFACE-MIB

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Category: Network Interfaces, Vendor: IBM

Description: IBM MIB providing proprietary interface management extensions for IBM networking products beyond the standard IF-MIB.

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What Is IBM-INTERFACE-MIB?

IBM-INTERFACE-MIB is an IBM proprietary MIB that supplements the standard IETF IF-MIB with IBM-specific interface-management extensions, most notably the ability to reset per-interface counters. It exposes a clear-counters table mirroring standard interface statistics, octets, unicast/multicast packets, and errors in both directions, but structured as writable objects that let an operator zero out a specific interface's counters. Its monitoring role is about interface performance/error tracking and counter management rather than physical hardware sensors: inbound and outbound error counters mirror standard IF-MIB error counters, and the ability to reset them is useful for baselining traffic after a maintenance event. It explicitly depends on and extends the standard IETF IF-MIB, since it operates on the same interface indices and counter semantics. It is deployed on IBM networking equipment wherever administrators need standard IF-MIB style traffic monitoring plus the ability to reset counters per-interface, and can download the IBM-INTERFACE-MIB file directly to load into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in IBM-INTERFACE-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

IBM networking equipment (routers/switches) supporting IF-MIB extensions

Monitoring Examples

An admin would read ibminterfaceClearTable/ibminterfaceClearEntry counters such as ibminterfaceClearInErrors and ibminterfaceClearOutErrors alongside the standard IF-MIB counters to track interface error rates, then set ibminterfaceClearInAll/ibminterfaceClearOutAll to reset a specific interface's counters after resolving a cabling issue, allowing a clean baseline for subsequent monitoring.

What Can Be Monitored

interface inbound/outbound octet counts
interface unicast/multicast packet counts
interface error counts
interface counter reset control

Imported Objects

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

enterprises

From RFC1213-MIB

ifIndex

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
IpAddress

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
ibmIROCroutinginterface	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17
ibminterfaceClearTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1		not-accessible	A table allowing interface counters to be cleared.
ibminterfaceClearEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1		not-accessible	Entry identifying a particular interface whose counters are to be cleared.
INT ibminterfaceClearInOctets	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.1	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counter of bytes received over this interface is reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearInUcastPkts	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.2	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counter of unicast packets received over this interface is reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearInMulticastPkts	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.3	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counter of multicast packets received over this interface is reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearInErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.4	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counters for all types of input errors are reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearInAll	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.5	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counters for all input counters (byte, packet, error) are reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearOutOctets	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.6	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counter of bytes sent over this interface is reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearOutUcastPkts	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.7	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counter of unicast packets sent over this interface is reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearOutMulticastPkts	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.8	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counter of multicast packets sent over this interface is reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearOutErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.9	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counters for all types of output errors are reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearOutAll	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.10	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counters for all output counters (byte, packet, error) are reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearMaintTest	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.11	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), the counters for self test pass, self test fail and maintenance fail are reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearDeviceSpecific	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.12	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), all the device specific counters are reset. For example, for an Ethernet interface, all the counters provided in the dot3StatsTable are reset. When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.
INT ibminterfaceClearAll	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.119.4.17.1.1.13	INTEGER	read-write	When SET to a value of clear(1), all the reset actions performed by the MIB objects defined above are executed at once. This action has the same behavior as executing the CLEAR command from the T5 console prompt (+). When READ, this object always returns a value of noaction(0), since this object is intended as a trigger, rather than providing information.

RFC description

Provides enterprise-specific interface management for IBM IROC routing platforms, including counter clearing.

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What Can Be Monitored

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