MSIPBOOTP-MIB

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Category: Vendor: Microsoft

Description: Microsoft MIB for managing and monitoring BOOTP/DHCP relay agent operations on Windows systems.

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What Is MSIPBOOTP-MIB?

MSIPBOOTP-MIB is a Microsoft-specific MIB that instruments the BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent service running on Windows Server, part of Microsoft's TCP/IP stack management extensions. It exposes configuration and operational data for the relay agent, including global logging level, maximum queued-request settings, per-interface relay state, and a table of configured BOOTP/DHCP server addresses being relayed to. Monitoring-wise it is used to check the software health of the relay service on the host — whether relaying is active on each interface, how many BOOTP/DHCP servers are configured, and counters like send failures that flag a malfunctioning or unreachable relay target. It depends on the standard IF-MIB ifIndex convention to key its per-interface statistics table. It is typically deployed by Windows network administrators monitoring DHCP/BOOTP relay infrastructure on domain controllers or dedicated relay servers in enterprise LANs. Engineers can download the MSIPBOOTP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

Windows Server (BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent)
vendor-specific Microsoft MIB, not tied to network hardware

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll globalBOOTPServerTable/globalBOOTPServerEntry to enumerate the configured relay target addresses (globalBOOTPServerAddr) and confirm the relay list matches the intended DHCP servers. Polling ifStatsTable/ifStatsEntry keyed by ifSEIndex reveals per-interface relay state (ifSEState) and ifSESendFailures; a climbing ifSESendFailures counter on one interface indicates packets aren't reaching the configured BOOTP server and relay is failing on that segment. globalServerCount and globalMaxRecQueueSize give a quick sanity check on relay scale and whether the request queue is being exhausted.

What Can Be Monitored

BOOTP/DHCP relay agent state per interface
configured relay server addresses
relay send failures
logging level
maximum queued request size
number of configured relay servers

Imported Objects

From MSFT-MIB

microsoft	OBJECT-IDENTITY
software	OBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter
IpAddress
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
enterprises

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
msipbootp	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12
_pysmi_global	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.1
INT globalLoggingLevel	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.1.1	INTEGER	read-write	Information logged can be None, Error only, Error + Warning, Error + Warn + Logging. This variable controls the amount of information logged
INT globalMaxRecQueueSize	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.1.2	INTEGER	read-write	Maximum size to use for queueing incoming packets.
INT globalServerCount	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.1.3	INTEGER	read-only	Number of entries BOOTP server table
globalBOOTPServerTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.1.4		not-accessible	Table of BOOTP servers to which packets are sent by this router
globalBOOTPServerEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.1.4.1		not-accessible	BOOTP server entry. Contains the IP address of a BOOTP server
IP globalBOOTPServerAddr	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.1.4.1.1	IpAddress	read-write	IP Address of DHCP/BOOTP router
INT globalBOOTPServerTag	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.1.4.1.2	INTEGER	read-write	create : Creates an entry in the BOOTP Server table delete : Deletes an entry in the BOOTP Server table
interface	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2
ifStatsTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1		not-accessible	Table of BOOTP statistics for interfaces
ifStatsEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1		not-accessible	BOOTP interface statistics entry. Each entry contains counts of send/receive failures, requests/relies received/discarded, and ARP Update failures
INT ifSEIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1.1	INTEGER	read-only	Index for the BOOTP interface Statistics table
INT ifSEState	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1.2	INTEGER	read-only	Current state of BOOTP on this interface.
CTR ifSESendFailures	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1.3	Counter	read-only	Number of times a failure occurred while attempting to send a packet on this interface.
CTR ifSEReceiveFailures	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1.4	Counter	read-only	Number of times a failure occurred while attempting to receive a packet on this interface.
CTR ifSEArpUpdateFailures	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1.5	Counter	read-only	Number of times a failure occurred while attempting to update the ARP cache on this interface.
CTR ifSERequestReceiveds	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1.6	Counter	read-only	Number of BOOTP REQUEST packets received on this interface.
CTR ifSERequestDiscards	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1.7	Counter	read-only	Number of BOOTP REQUEST packets discarded on this interface.
CTR ifSEReplyReceiveds	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1.8	Counter	read-only	Number of BOOTP REPLY packets received on this interface.
CTR ifSEReplyDiscards	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.1.1.9	Counter	read-only	Number of BOOTP REPLY packets discarded due to errors in the header.
ifConfigTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.2		not-accessible	BOOTP Interface configuration table. List of subnets that require separate configuration in BOOTP.
ifConfigEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.2.1		not-accessible	BOOTP configuration entry for an interface. A single routing domain in a single subnet.
INT ifCEIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.2.1.1	INTEGER	read-only	Index for BOOTP interface config. table.
INT ifCEState	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.2.1.2	INTEGER	read-only	Current state of BOOTP on this interface.
INT ifCERelayMode	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.2.1.3	INTEGER	read-write	Relay Mode for BOOTP request/reply packets
INT ifCEMaxHopCount	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.2.1.4	INTEGER	read-write	Each time a BOOTP request is forwarded by the BOOTP relay agent the request packet's hop count is incremented. If the number of hops traversed by the packet exceeds the max hop count configured on a relay agent the request packet is discarded by that relay agent.
INT ifCEMinSecondsSinceBoot	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.2.1.5	INTEGER	read-write	Each BOOTP request sent by a client contains the time since the client has booted. If the time since boot for the client exceeds the configured value of ifCEMinSecondsSinceBoot on a relay agent, the relay agent will forward the request. Otherwise it will discard the request.
ifBindingTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.3		not-accessible	Table containing binding information for each interface.
ifBindingEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.3.1		not-accessible	Binding information entry for an interface
INT ifBindingIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.3.1.1	INTEGER	read-only	Index for an interface entry in the binding table
INT ifBindingState	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.3.1.2	INTEGER	read-only	State of the interface binding
INT ifBindingAddrCount	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.3.1.3	INTEGER	read-only	Number of IP address bound to this interface. This is also the number of entries in the Interface Address Table corresponding to this interface.
ifAddressTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.4		not-accessible	Table of IP addresses bound to interfaces
ifAddressEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.4.1		not-accessible	Entry for an IP address for an interface
INT ifAEIfIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.4.1.1	INTEGER	read-only	Index corresponding to the Interface with which this entry is associated.
IP ifAEAddress	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.4.1.2	IpAddress	read-only	Ip address bound to the associated interface.
IP ifAEMask	1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.12.2.4.1.3	IpAddress	read-only	Address Mask associated with the IP address contained in the corresponding ifAEAddress field.

RFC description

Manages BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol) protocol statistics and configuration on Microsemi IP-based devices.

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