KEEPALIVED-MIB

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Organization: Keepalived

Last Updated: 2009-04-08

Category: Protocol: VRRP, Technology: High Availability

Description: MIB for monitoring Keepalived VRRP and health-check daemon status on Linux servers providing high-availability IP failover.

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What Is KEEPALIVED-MIB?

KEEPALIVED-MIB is the standard MIB shipped with keepalived, the popular open-source Linux VRRP and health-checking daemon (enterprise OID 9586). Its objects cover keepalived version, router ID, SMTP server address/timeout and sender address for alert emails, an email-recipient table, a trap-enable flag, link-beat setting, and a VRRP sync-group table (name, state, SMTP-alert enable, notify-exec flag, and master/backup/fault transition scripts) with a member table. As a configuration/status MIB it lets an administrator confirm a VRRP sync group's current state and which transition scripts fire on master/backup/fault changes. It is deployed on Linux servers running keepalived for VRRP-based high availability. Engineers can download the KEEPALIVED-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in KEEPALIVED-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

  • Linux servers running keepalived (VRRP high availability)

Monitoring Examples

An administrator checks vrrpSyncGroupState and vrrpSyncGroupScriptFault to confirm which script runs and what state a VRRP sync group is in after a failover on a Linux server running keepalived.

What Can Be Monitored

  • VRRP sync group state and transition-script configuration
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressPrefixLength
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber
InetScopeType

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using virtualServerStatsInPkts OID:

Select a Linux server running keepalived (VRRP high availability) as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type virtualServerStatsInPkts into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. It reports the total number of incoming packets for this virtual server. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline (in packets), since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Keepalived MIB for VRRP protocol and health checker operations providing high-availability monitoring and statistics.

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Download KEEPALIVED-MIB