OSPFV3-MIB

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Organization: IETF OSPF Working Group

Last Updated: 2009-08-13

Category: IP and Core Protocols, Network Interfaces, Routing Protocols

Description: Defines managed objects for managing OSPFv3, the version of OSPF designed for IPv6 networks, covering areas, interfaces, neighbors, and the link-state database.

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What Is OSPFV3-MIB?

OSPFV3-MIB is the IETF standards-track MIB module for managing OSPF version 3, the variant of the OSPF link-state routing protocol designed for IPv6 networks, covering areas, interfaces, neighbor adjacencies, and the link-state database. It exposes routing protocol configuration and operational state, including stub-router support, interface-level demand-neighbor probe timers and retransmission limits, virtual-neighbor graceful-restart helper status, and a discontinuity-time object marking when counters were last reset. Its monitoring value is primarily software/protocol status rather than hardware health: tracking neighbor and virtual-neighbor adjacency state (including graceful-restart helper behavior) reveals whether OSPFv3 routing is converged and stable, while ospfv3StubRouterSupport and demand-neighbor timers indicate how the router is configured to behave during startup or over on-demand links. It is explicitly the IPv6 counterpart to the IETF OSPF-MIB for OSPFv2 and depends on standard IETF routing/interface conventions (IF-MIB ifIndex) for binding OSPF interfaces to physical/logical interfaces. It is deployed on IPv6-capable routers running OSPFv3 in enterprise and service-provider networks, polled by an NMS to verify routing protocol health and adjacency stability. Consulting the OSPFV3-MIB OID list can help an operator map specific area, interface, and neighbor objects to their SNMP identifiers before building custom polling or alerting rules.

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Supported Devices

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
  • IPv6-capable router running OSPFv3

Monitoring Examples

An operator would check ospfv3StubRouterSupport to confirm whether a router supports advertising itself as a stub router during startup, and monitor ospfv3VirtNbrRestartHelperStatus to verify a virtual neighbor is correctly acting as a graceful-restart helper during a peer's planned restart. Reviewing ospfv3IfDemandNbrProbeInterval and ospfv3IfDemandNbrProbeRetransLimit per interface helps confirm demand-circuit neighbor probing is tuned correctly, while a recent ospfv3DiscontinuityTime combined with unexpected adjacency flaps would prompt an operator to investigate a router reload or counter reset event.

What Can Be Monitored

  • stub router support configuration
  • virtual neighbor graceful-restart helper status
  • demand-neighbor probe interval and retransmission limit
  • counter discontinuity time
  • OSPFv3 area/interface/neighbor state
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressIPv6
InetAddressPrefixLength
InetAddressType

From OSPF-MIB

BigMetric
DesignatedRouterPriority
HelloRange
Metric
Status

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue
OIDs

FAQ

What does OSPFV3-MIB let me monitor on an IPv6 router?
It exposes OSPFv3 routing state including area/interface/neighbor and virtual-neighbor adjacency status, stub-router support configuration, demand-neighbor probe intervals and retransmission limits, graceful-restart helper status, and a counter discontinuity-time object marking when counters were last reset.

How would an NMS use OSPFv3-MIB to verify routing health?
Since it's the IPv6 counterpart to the IETF OSPF-MIB for OSPFv2, an NMS polls neighbor and virtual-neighbor adjacency state to confirm OSPFv3 has converged and is stable, and checks stub-router and demand-neighbor timer settings to understand how the router behaves at startup or over on-demand links, all bound to physical interfaces via IF-MIB ifIndex.

RFC description

OSPFv3 protocol management and statistics MIB (RFC 4750).

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