MPLS-LDP-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

All MIBsMPLS-LDP-MIB

Organization: Multiprotocol Label Switching (mpls) Working Group

Last Updated: 2006-01-04

Category: IETF Standards, MPLS

Description: Manages IETF MPLS Label Distribution Protocol sessions, neighbors, and bindings.

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What Is MPLS-LDP-MIB?

MPLS-LDP-MIB is an IETF standards-based module (based on the MPLS LDP draft that became RFC 3815) for managing the Label Distribution Protocol used to establish MPLS label-switched paths between routers. It exposes configuration and operational data about LDP entities, sessions, hello adjacencies, and peer label spaces — the control-plane state of label distribution on a router. In monitoring terms it tracks the software/protocol status of MPLS forwarding, revealing whether LDP sessions to neighboring routers are established, how many peers are active, and whether label bindings are exchanged correctly, rather than physical hardware health. It depends on the base IETF MPLS architecture and typically complements MPLS-related MIBs such as MPLS-TE-MIB and MPLS-LSR-MIB in a full MPLS management picture. It is deployed on MPLS-capable routers and label switch routers (LSRs) in service-provider and enterprise backbone networks. Service providers running large label-switched cores commonly automate MPLS-LDP-MIB SNMP polling on a short interval across every LSR to catch a dropped LDP session or missing hello adjacency within seconds of it occurring.

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Supported Devices

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer — applies to MPLS-capable routers/label switch routers

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll an LDP session table to confirm expected LDP peer sessions are in the operational state, and check an LDP hello adjacency table for expected neighbor discovery. A session that unexpectedly drops to a non-operational state, or a missing hello adjacency to a known neighbor router, would indicate an LDP protocol or link-layer problem preventing label distribution. Because no concrete sample object names were supplied for this module, table names are given generically based on the well-documented RFC 3815 structure rather than exact source text.

What Can Be Monitored

  • LDP session state
  • LDP peer/neighbor discovery
  • label binding exchange
  • LDP entity configuration
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoExperimentOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IANA-ADDRESS-FAMILY-NUMBERS-MIB

AddressFamilyNumbers

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
InterfaceIndexOrZero

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

RowPointer
RowStatus
StorageType
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeInterval
TimeStamp
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

MPLS Label Distribution Protocol MIB (RFC 3815) for LDP protocol management.

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