OSPF-PRIVATE-MIB

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Organization: Lucent's Concord Technology Center (CTC)

Last Updated: 1999-03-02

Category: Routing

Description: Provides Lucent Cajun private OSPF extensions for routing protocol configuration and adjacency monitoring.

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What Is OSPF-PRIVATE-MIB?

OSPF-PRIVATE-MIB is a Lucent Cajun private SNMP extension MIB that supplements the standard OSPF MIB with additional configuration and statistics objects for Cajun-branded routing/switching equipment. It belongs to the routing-protocol configuration and performance-monitoring category, exposing global OSPF configuration parameters and global OSPF statistics groups specific to the Cajun implementation. Its role in status monitoring is centered on the software/protocol layer: it helps administrators confirm OSPF is configured as expected on the device and track protocol-level statistics that reveal routing instability or misconfiguration rather than physical hardware sensors. As a 'private' extension, it explicitly depends on and complements the standard OSPF-MIB (RFC 1850/OSPF-MIB), adding Cajun-specific objects not covered by the standard. It is typically deployed on Lucent Cajun switches/routers in enterprise or carrier networks running OSPF, monitored via SNMP alongside the standard OSPF-MIB for a complete view of the routing protocol's health. Engineers can download the OSPF-PRIVATE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in OSPF-PRIVATE-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

  • Lucent Cajun switch/router

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll cjnOspfGblConfGroup to verify the router's global OSPF configuration, such as router ID or process-wide settings specific to the Cajun implementation, and cjnOspfGblStatsGroup to track protocol-wide statistics like SPF run counts or LSA processing activity. A sudden spike in values within cjnOspfGblStatsGroup could indicate OSPF instability, such as flapping adjacencies or a routing loop causing excessive recalculation. These Cajun-specific groups would typically be monitored alongside the standard OSPF-MIB's neighbor and interface tables for full protocol visibility.

What Can Be Monitored

  • OSPF global configuration parameters
  • OSPF global protocol statistics
  • SPF recalculation/LSA activity indicators
Imported Objects

From Cajun-ROOT

cjnProtocolOBJECT-IDENTITY

From OSPF-MIB

AreaID
Metric
RouterID
TOSType

From SNMPv2-SMI

IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cjnOspfPathSplit OID:

Select a Lucent Cajun switch/router (private OSPF extensions) 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 cjnOspfPathSplit into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The number of OSPF path splits. 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 count changes from its expected baseline, since that would indicate the underlying set of items changed unexpectedly. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Provides private OSPF routing protocol configuration and management for Lucent Concord technology routers.

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