NETWORK-ALCHEMY-CONFIG-MIB

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Organization: Network Alchemy, Inc.

Last Updated: 2000-03-14

Category: Firewall

Description: Provides configuration management objects for Network Alchemy firewall and VPN gateway appliances.

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What Is NETWORK-ALCHEMY-CONFIG-MIB?

NETWORK-ALCHEMY-CONFIG-MIB is a Network Alchemy, Inc. (later Nokia IP VPN/Crypto Cluster line, built on NETAL-SMI) proprietary MIB with two objects — a config-dirty-bit flag and a config-commit action — for managing pending configuration changes on a Crypto Cluster node. As a configuration MIB it lets an administrator confirm whether uncommitted changes are pending and commit them on a Network Alchemy (Nokia) Crypto Cluster node. It is deployed on Network Alchemy (Nokia) Crypto Cluster VPN equipment. Engineers can download the NETWORK-ALCHEMY-CONFIG-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in NETWORK-ALCHEMY-CONFIG-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

Network Alchemy (Nokia) Crypto Cluster VPN equipment

Monitoring Examples

An administrator checks configDirtyBit before setting configCommit to apply pending configuration changes on a Network Alchemy (Nokia) Crypto Cluster node.

What Can Be Monitored

pending-configuration-change (dirty-bit) state

Imported Objects

From NETAL-SMI

config	OBJECT-IDENTITY
netalModules	OBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using configDirtyBit OID:

Select a Network Alchemy (Nokia) Crypto Cluster VPN equipment (configuration commit) 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 configDirtyBit into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. Says whether the configuration has been changed via a set on any of the writable SNMP variables. 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 an INTEGER-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the value is anything other than 'no', since that indicates the condition this object reports has changed to one worth investigating. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
INT configDirtyBitEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.2972.2.5.1	INTEGER	read-only	Says whether the configuration has been changed via a set on any of the writable SNMP variables.
INT configCommit	1.3.6.1.4.1.2972.2.5.2	INTEGER	read-write	When an SNMP management station sets (changes) a configuration parameter via an SNMP set operation, the SNMP agent code will set a dirt bit. The management station can then submit a set operation on this configCommit variable to write the configuration to flash, thereby committing the change. Performing a read on this variable will return the value of the config dirty bit.
networkAlchemyConfigMIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.2972.5.6			Crypto Cluster Configuration MIB module.

RFC description

Configuration management MIB for Network Alchemy crypto cluster equipment with commit/dirty-bit tracking.

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