NETGEAR-FIPSNOOPING-MIB

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Organization: Netgear Inc

Last Updated: 2011-04-20

Category: Security

Description: Monitors and controls FIPS (Filtering IP Source) snooping to prevent IP spoofing on Netgear managed switches.

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What Is NETGEAR-FIPSNOOPING-MIB?

NETGEAR-FIPSNOOPING-MIB is a Netgear FASTPATH private MIB implementing FIP (FCoE Initialization Protocol) Snooping, a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) security feature defined by the T11 FCoE standard, used on Netgear data-center switches. It exposes an admin/operational mode configuration object for the feature, a statistics-clear control, and per-VLAN and per-interface FCoE session statistics tables. It functions primarily as a network-security and protocol-health monitoring MIB: agentFIPSnoopingAdminMode reports whether the feature is enabled, and the VLAN/interface statistics tables reveal FCoE session activity, letting an administrator confirm the snooping feature and the FCoE sessions it tracks are behaving as expected - a software/protocol-state check rather than a physical-sensor one. It is explicitly built on the T11 FC-BB-5 FCoE/FIP standard referenced directly in its module description, and complements Netgear's other FASTPATH switch MIBs. It is deployed on Netgear FASTPATH data-center switches acting as FCF-facing or FCF-connected devices, and administrators can download the NETGEAR-FIPSNOOPING-MIB file to secure and monitor FCoE traffic on these switches.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in NETGEAR-FIPSNOOPING-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

  • Netgear FASTPATH-based data-center switch (FCoE-capable)

Monitoring Examples

agentFIPSnoopingVlanStatisticsTable/agentFIPSnoopingVlanStatsEntry and agentFIPSnoopingIntfStatisticsTable/agentFIPSnoopingIntfStatsEntry expose per-VLAN and per-interface FCoE session counters, while agentFIPSnoopingAdminMode reports the feature's global enable state. An administrator polling agentFIPSnoopingIntfStatisticsTable on an FCF-facing port who sees an unexpected spike or drop in snooped FIP session counts can infer a rogue FCoE endpoint or a misconfigured FCF connection on that port. agentFIPSnoopingStatsClear lets them reset the counters to establish a clean baseline after remediation.

What Can Be Monitored

  • FIP snooping admin mode
  • per-VLAN FCoE session statistics
  • per-interface FCoE session statistics
  • port role/FC-MAP configuration
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
InterfaceIndexOrZero
ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From Q-BRIDGE-MIB

VlanIndex
dot1qVlanIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From QUANTA-LB6M-REF-MIB

lb6mOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
MacAddress
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using agentFIPSnoopingVlanVlanRequests OID:

Select a Netgear FASTPATH-based data-center switch (FCoE FIP Snooping) 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 agentFIPSnoopingVlanVlanRequests 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 number of VLAN Request messages received on the VLAN. 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, 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

Configures FIP Snooping for Ethernet bridges connected to ENodes, enabling FCF discovery and FCoE session monitoring on network switches.

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