PRVT-OSPF-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

All MIBsPRVT-OSPF-MIB

Organization: BATM Advanced Communication

Last Updated: 2012-04-01

Category: Routing

Description: Manages BATM Advanced Communication OSPF routing protocol configuration, neighbor adjacency, and LSDB state.

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What Is PRVT-OSPF-MIB?

PRVT-OSPF-MIB is a BATM Advanced Communications proprietary MIB supplementing standard OSPF management with vendor-specific objects not covered by the IETF's OSPF-MIB, covering router identity, protocol version, LSA statistics, and extended feature toggles. It exposes objects for OSPF administrative status, router ID, external LSA counts and checksums, TOS support, LSDB overflow handling, and demand-circuit extensions. This is a routing-protocol status and fault-monitoring MIB — tracking whether OSPF is administratively enabled (prvtOspfAdminStat), counting external LSAs to gauge database size/churn, and monitoring LSDB overflow conditions that can indicate routing instability or resource exhaustion. It explicitly complements the standard OSPF-MIB (RFC 1850/4750), adding vendor-specific detail the standard MIB does not capture. It is deployed on BATM Advanced Communications routers/switches running OSPF within service-provider or enterprise IP networks. Engineers can download the PRVT-OSPF-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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

  • BATM Advanced Communications routers/switches running OSPF

Monitoring Examples

An operator can poll prvtOspfAdminStat and prvtOspfRouterId to confirm OSPF is enabled with the expected router identity, then watch prvtOspfExternLsaCount and prvtOspfExternLsaCksumSum for unexpected growth or checksum mismatches that would indicate LSA flooding problems. A rising prvtOspfExternLsaCount combined with prvtOspfExtLsdbLimit being approached signals the link-state database is nearing an overflow condition that could destabilize routing.

What Can Be Monitored

  • OSPF administrative status
  • router ID
  • external LSA count
  • external LSA checksum sum
  • LSDB overflow interval/limit
  • TOS support and demand-circuit extensions
Imported Objects

From PRVT-OSPF-EXTENSION-MIB

routingProtocolsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using prvtOspfOriginateNewLsas OID:

Select a BATM Advanced Communications routers/switches running OSPF 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 prvtOspfOriginateNewLsas into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The number of new link-state advertisements that have been originated. 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

Vendor-private MIB extending OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) routing protocol management with vendor-specific objects.

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