IPV6-ICMP-MIB

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Organization: IETF IPv6 Working Group

Last Updated: 2017-02-22

Category: IP and Core Protocols

Description: Defines managed objects for ICMPv6 entities, providing management and monitoring of Internet Control Message Protocol operations over IPv6.

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What Is IPV6-ICMP-MIB?

IPV6-ICMP-MIB is an IETF standards-track MIB, originally published as RFC 2466 and now formally marked obsolete in favor of the revised IP-MIB (RFC 4293), that was intended to expose per-interface ICMPv6 statistics for entities implementing ICMPv6. Its single ipv6IfIcmpTable (AUGMENTS ipv6IfEntry from IPV6-MIB) defined per-interface counters such as ipv6IfIcmpInMsgs, ipv6IfIcmpInErrors, ipv6IfIcmpInDestUnreachs, ipv6IfIcmpInTimeExcds, ipv6IfIcmpInEchos/EchoReplies, and router solicitation/advertisement counts, but the module itself notes this table was deprecated because implementations were found not to actually maintain these statistics on a per-interface basis. Despite its obsolete status, the module remains relevant as a historical/compatibility reference for tools or agents that still implement it, and for understanding the object naming that IP-MIB's icmpStatsTable/icmpMsgStatsTable later replaced with global and per-type ICMPv6 counters. It depends on IPV6-MIB for the ipv6IfEntry table it augments, and is not tied to any specific vendor's hardware since it is a pure IETF specification; administrators researching legacy SNMP agents may still consult the IPV6-ICMP-MIB RFC when an older device reports these OIDs instead of the current IP-MIB equivalents.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in IPV6-ICMP-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

vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB (RFC 2466, obsoleted by RFC 4293), not tied to a specific manufacturer

Monitoring Examples

An operator investigating why an older router's per-interface ICMPv6 echo counters never increment discovers that ipv6IfIcmpTable was marked obsolete in this MIB because vendors never maintained it per-interface, and switches to polling IP-MIB's icmpStatsTable instead for equivalent global ICMPv6 statistics.

What Can Be Monitored

per-interface ICMPv6 message counters (in/out)
ICMPv6 error counters (destination unreachable, time exceeded, parameter problem)
ICMPv6 echo request/reply counters
router solicitation/advertisement counters

Imported Objects

From IPV6-MIB

ipv6IfEntry

OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
mib-2

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
ipv6IcmpMIB	1.3.6.1.2.1.56			The obsolete MIB module for entities implementing the ICMPv6. Use the IP-MIB instead. Copyright (c) 2017 IETF Trust and the persons identified as authors of the code. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject to the license terms contained in, the Simplified BSD License set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
ipv6IcmpMIBObjects	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1
ipv6IfIcmpTable	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1		not-accessible	IPv6 ICMP statistics. This table contains statistics of ICMPv6 messages that are received and sourced by the entity. This table is obsolete because systems were found not to maintain these statistics per-interface.
ipv6IfIcmpEntry	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1		not-accessible	An ICMPv6 statistics entry containing objects at a particular IPv6 interface. Note that a receiving interface is the interface to which a given ICMPv6 message is addressed which may not be necessarily the input interface for the message. Similarly, the sending interface is the interface that sources a given ICMP message which is usually but not necessarily the output interface for the message. This table is obsolete because systems were found not to maintain these statistics per-interface.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInMsgs	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.1	Counter32	read-only	The total number of ICMP messages received by the interface which includes all those counted by ipv6IfIcmpInErrors. Note that this interface is the interface to which the ICMP messages were addressed which may not be necessarily the input interface for the messages. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpStatsInMsgs.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInErrors	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.2	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP messages which the interface received but determined as having ICMP-specific errors (bad ICMP checksums, bad length, etc.). This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpStatsInErrors.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInDestUnreachs	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.3	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Destination Unreachable messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInAdminProhibs	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.4	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP destination unreachable/communication administratively prohibited messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInTimeExcds	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.5	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Time Exceeded messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInParmProblems	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.6	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Parameter Problem messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInPktTooBigs	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.7	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Packet Too Big messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInEchos	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.8	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Echo (request) messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInEchoReplies	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.9	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Echo Reply messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInRouterSolicits	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.10	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Router Solicit messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInRouterAdvertisements	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.11	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Router Advertisement messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInNeighborSolicits	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.12	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Neighbor Solicit messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInNeighborAdvertisements	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.13	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Neighbor Advertisement messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInRedirects	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.14	Counter32	read-only	The number of Redirect messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInGroupMembQueries	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.15	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMPv6 Group Membership Query messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInGroupMembResponses	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.16	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMPv6 Group Membership Response messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpInGroupMembReductions	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.17	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMPv6 Group Membership Reduction messages received by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsInPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutMsgs	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.18	Counter32	read-only	The total number of ICMP messages which this interface attempted to send. Note that this counter includes all those counted by icmpOutErrors. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpStatsOutMsgs.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutErrors	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.19	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP messages which this interface did not send due to problems discovered within ICMP such as a lack of buffers. This value should not include errors discovered outside the ICMP layer such as the inability of IPv6 to route the resultant datagram. In some implementations there may be no types of error which contribute to this counter's value. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpStatsOutErrors.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutDestUnreachs	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.20	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Destination Unreachable messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutAdminProhibs	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.21	Counter32	read-only	Number of ICMP dest unreachable/communication administratively prohibited messages sent. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutTimeExcds	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.22	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Time Exceeded messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutParmProblems	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.23	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Parameter Problem messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutPktTooBigs	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.24	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Packet Too Big messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutEchos	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.25	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Echo (request) messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutEchoReplies	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.26	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Echo Reply messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutRouterSolicits	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.27	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Router Solicitation messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutRouterAdvertisements	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.28	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Router Advertisement messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutNeighborSolicits	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.29	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Neighbor Solicitation messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutNeighborAdvertisements	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.30	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMP Neighbor Advertisement messages sent by the interface. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutRedirects	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.31	Counter32	read-only	The number of Redirect messages sent. For a host, this object will always be zero, since hosts do not send redirects. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutGroupMembQueries	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.32	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMPv6 Group Membership Query messages sent. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutGroupMembResponses	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.33	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMPv6 Group Membership Response messages sent. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
C32 ipv6IfIcmpOutGroupMembReductions	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.1.1.1.34	Counter32	read-only	The number of ICMPv6 Group Membership Reduction messages sent. This object has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpMsgStatsOutPkts in the row corresponding to this message type.
ipv6IcmpConformance	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.2
ipv6IcmpCompliances	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.2.1
ipv6IcmpCompliance	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.2.1.1			The compliance statement for SNMPv2 entities which implement ICMPv6. This compliance statement has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::ipMIBCompliance2.
ipv6IcmpGroups	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.2.2
ipv6IcmpGroup	1.3.6.1.2.1.56.2.2.1			The ICMPv6 group of objects providing information specific to ICMPv6. This group has been obsoleted by IP-MIB::icmpStatsGroup.

RFC description

SNMP MIB defined in RFC 2466 for managing ICMPv6 (Internet Control Message Protocol version 6) statistics including per-interface counters for echo, errors, and neighbor discovery messages; obsoleted by RFC 4293 IP-MIB.

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Supported Devices

Monitoring Examples

What Can Be Monitored

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