NETSWITCH-DMA-MIB

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Category: Switch Management

Description: Manages DMA engine configuration and transfer statistics for NetSwitch network processing hardware.

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What Is NETSWITCH-DMA-MIB?

NETSWITCH-DMA-MIB is a vendor MIB (module description not provided in this batch) for NetSwitch network processing hardware, intended to manage DMA (Direct Memory Access) engine configuration and transfer statistics per its short description. With no sample objects supplied, its exposed data is presumed to include DMA channel configuration and transfer/error counters typical of a hardware DMA-engine management MIB. Its monitoring value would be hardware performance/health-oriented — tracking DMA transfer throughput and error counts to detect a failing or overloaded DMA engine on the network-processing hardware, which could otherwise manifest as unexplained packet loss or forwarding performance degradation. Without a captured module description, no specific external MIB dependency can be confirmed. It would be deployed on NetSwitch network processing equipment used for high-speed packet handling in carrier or data-center environments. Engineers can download the NETSWITCH-DMA-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

NetSwitch network processing hardware

Monitoring Examples

Without concrete sample objects for this entry, a specific polling scenario cannot be grounded in real object names; generally an admin would poll DMA channel configuration and transfer/error counters to detect a degraded DMA engine causing packet-forwarding issues, but the precise table/object names are not present in the provided data.

What Can Be Monitored

DMA channel configuration
DMA transfer statistics
DMA error counters

Imported Objects

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter
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OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
hp	1.3.6.1.4.1.11
nm	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2
icf	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14
hpicfObjects	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11
hpicfSwitch	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5
hpSwitch	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1
hpOpSystem	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.1
hpHwSystem	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2
hpDMAStats	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2
INT hpDMAReset	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.1	INTEGER	read-write	It resets all DMA counters to 0 by providing 1
CTR hpDMAFrameRcvcnt	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.2	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the number of frames that have been received by the switch. Only good CRC frames are included.
CTR hpDMAOctetsRcvcnt	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.3	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the number of octets that have been received by the switch. This counter is incremented by the size of each frame received by the switch.
CTR hpDMAPrevRcvFrames	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.4	Counter	read-only	This object is a copy of hpDMARcvFrames sampled every second.
CTR hpDMAFrameRcvPerSec	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.5	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the number of frames that were received by the switch in one second. It is updated every second.
CTR hpDMAPeakRcvFrames	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.6	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the highest hpDMAFrameRcvPerSec that have been recieved by the switch.
CTR hpDMAPrevRcvOctets	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.7	Counter	read-only	This object is a copy of hpDMAPrevRcvFrames sampled every second.
CTR hpDMAOctetsRcvPerSec	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.8	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the number of octets that were received by the switch in one second. It is updated every second.
CTR hpDMAPeakRcvOctets	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.9	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the highest hpDMARcvOctets that have been received by the switch.
CTR hpDMAFrameXmtcnt	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.10	Counter	read-only	This counter is incremented by one for each frame successfully transmitted from the switch.
CTR hpDMAOctetsXmtcnt	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.11	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the number of octets that have been transmitted by the switch.
CTR hpDMAPrevXmtFrames	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.12	Counter	read-only	This object is a copy of hpDMAXmtFrames sampled every second.
CTR hpDMAFrameXmtPerSec	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.13	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the number of frames that were transmitted by the switch in one second. It is updated every second.
CTR hpDMAPeakXmtFrames	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.14	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the highest hpDMAFrameXmtPerSec that have been transmitted by the switch.
CTR hpDMAPrevXmtOctets	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.15	Counter	read-only	This object is a copy of hpDMAPrevXmtFrames sampled every second.
CTR hpDMAOctetsXmtPerSec	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.16	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the number of octets that were transmitted by the switch in one second. It is updated every second.
CTR hpDMAPeakXmtOctets	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.17	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the highest hpDMAXmtOctets that has been transmitted by the switch.
CTR hpDMAFrameClippedcnt	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.18	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of number of outbound frames dropped by the switch due to transmit ring overflow.
CTR hpDMAFrameClippedOccurance	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.19	Counter	read-only	This object is a count of the number of times the transmit ring overflowed.
CTR hpDMAMissBufCnt	1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.2.2.20	Counter	read-only	This counter is incremented when buffer allocation fails.

RFC description

Tracks HP Enterprise switch Direct Memory Access counters for frame and octet statistics.

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What Is NETSWITCH-DMA-MIB?

Supported Devices

Monitoring Examples

What Can Be Monitored

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