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Organization: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.,
Last Updated: 2013-06-05
Category: Brocade
Description: Monitors Brocade switch resource utilization including memory, CPU, and buffer pool statistics.
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What Is RESOURCE-MIB?
RESOURCE-MIB is a Brocade Communications Systems enterprise MIB (copyright 1996-2003) that reports system-level resource information for Brocade Fibre Channel switch platforms. It focuses on system resource utilization data such as memory consumption, CPU load, and buffer pool statistics rather than interface or configuration data. This is squarely a hardware/software health-monitoring MIB: it lets an administrator track CPU load and memory usage trends on the switch's control processor, along with buffer pool exhaustion that can precede packet drops or fabric instability, functioning much like a lightweight system-vitals module for the switch's embedded OS. As a Brocade proprietary MIB it is typically polled alongside standard SNMPv2-MIB system group objects and Brocade's other Fibre Channel-specific MIBs rather than replacing them. It is deployed on Brocade SAN (storage area network) Fibre Channel switches and directors in enterprise data centers to keep tabs on switch control-plane health. Engineers can download the RESOURCE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Brocade Fibre Channel SAN switches/directors
Monitoring Examples
No sample_objects were provided for this module, so specific object names cannot be cited; based on the short description and stated purpose, an administrator would be expected to poll CPU utilization, free/used memory counters, and buffer pool occupancy objects to catch a switch's control processor becoming resource-starved, which often precedes slow fabric services or SNMP timeouts, but the exact object identifiers are not confirmed from the available source.
What Can Be Monitored
- CPU utilization
- memory utilization
- buffer pool statistics
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION | |
| TruthValue |
From SWBASE-MIB
| sw | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
CPU and memory usage monitoring with configurable thresholds for Brocade switches.
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