REDSTONE-ADDRESS-POOL-MIB

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Organization: Redstone Communications Inc.

Last Updated: 1999-06-01

Category: DSL and Broadband Access

Description: Manages IP address pool allocation and utilization on Redstone Communications edge routers.

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What Is REDSTONE-ADDRESS-POOL-MIB?

REDSTONE-ADDRESS-POOL-MIB is a private enterprise MIB from Redstone Communications Inc., used on their broadband/edge routing platforms to manage dynamic IP address pools, such as those handed out to dial-up, DSL, or PPP subscriber sessions. It exposes configuration data (pool name, start and end addresses, size) alongside real-time utilization data (addresses currently in use), making it primarily a configuration-and-capacity monitoring MIB rather than a fault or performance MIB. Its main operational value is letting an administrator watch address pool exhaustion, a leading indicator of subscriber-facing service degradation, though it does not cover hardware health like temperature or CPU. It relies on the row-creation conventions of SNMPv2 (RowStatus) for managing table entries, tying it to standard SMIv2 conformance rather than any other specific MIB. It is typically deployed in service-provider or enterprise edge routers where dynamic address assignment to remote clients needs to be tracked and capacity-planned. Engineers can download the REDSTONE-ADDRESS-POOL-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in REDSTONE-ADDRESS-POOL-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

Redstone Communications edge/broadband routers

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll rsAddressPoolTable/rsAddressPoolEntry, reading rsAddressPoolInUse against rsAddressPoolSize (derived from rsAddressPoolStart and rsAddressPoolEnd) for each rsAddressPoolName to compute pool utilization. If rsAddressPoolInUse approaches rsAddressPoolSize for a given rsAddressPoolIndex, new client sessions will start failing to obtain an address, signaling a need to expand the pool. rsAddressPoolRowStatus would be used when provisioning or removing pools via SNMP.

What Can Be Monitored

IP address pool utilization
addresses in use vs pool size
pool start/end range configuration
pool provisioning status

Imported Objects

From REDSTONE-SMI

rsMgmt

OBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using rsAddressPoolSize OID:

Select a Redstone Communications edge/broadband router 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 rsAddressPoolSize into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. The number of addresses available in this pool. 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 Integer32-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

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
rsAddressPoolMIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21			The Address Pool MIB for the Redstone Communications Inc. enterprise.
rsAddressPoolObjects	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1
rsAddressPool	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1
rsAddressPoolTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1.1		not-accessible	A table of IP address pools. Each pool describes a range of IP addresses available for assignment for dynamic connections.
rsAddressPoolEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1.1.1		not-accessible	An entry describing an IP address pool.
I32 rsAddressPoolIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1.1.1.1	Integer32	not-accessible	An arbitrary integer index that distinguishes this address pool.
ROW rsAddressPoolRowStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1.1.1.2	RowStatus	read-create	Controls creation/deletion of address pools. Only value 'active' will be observed with GET. Only values 'createAndGo' and 'destroy' are supported for SET. Once created, entry content cannot be modified except by deleting and recreating an entry with the same index.
STR rsAddressPoolName	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1.1.1.3	DisplayString	read-create	The name of this address pool.
IP rsAddressPoolStart	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1.1.1.4	IpAddress	read-create	The starting IP address for the range of addresses comprising this pool.
IP rsAddressPoolEnd	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1.1.1.5	IpAddress	read-create	The ending IP address for the range of addresses comprising this pool.
I32 rsAddressPoolSizeEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1.1.1.6	Integer32	read-only	The number of addresses available in this pool.
I32 rsAddressPoolInUse	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.1.1.1.1.7	Integer32	read-only	The number of addresses currently allocated from this pool.
rsAddressPoolMIBConformance	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.4
rsAddressPoolMIBCompliances	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.4.1
rsAddressPoolCompliance	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.4.1.1			The compliance statement for systems providing local address pools.
rsAddressPoolMIBGroups	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.4.2
rsAddressPoolGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.2773.2.21.4.2.1			The basic collection of objects providing management of local address pools.

RFC description

Redstone Networks DHCP and address pool allocation management MIB for routers; vendor-private.

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