SONUS-DIRECTORY-SERVICES-MIB

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Organization: Sonus Networks, Inc.

Last Updated: 2001-02-03

Category: Sonus Networks VoIP Softswitch

Description: Covers LDAP directory services integration on the Sonus Networks softswitch, used for subscriber and routing data.

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What Is SONUS-DIRECTORY-SERVICES-MIB?

SONUS-DIRECTORY-SERVICES-MIB is a proprietary Sonus Networks (later Sonus/Ribbon Communications) MIB for the vendor's carrier-grade softswitch and media gateway controller platform, covering LDAP-based directory services used for subscriber lookup and call routing. It exposes configuration-oriented data - named route entries, trunk group associations, and administrative state/row-status controls for route table entries - rather than raw performance counters. Operators use it primarily to monitor the software-side routing configuration health of the softswitch: whether route name entries are administratively enabled and correctly mapped to trunk groups, which indirectly reflects the health of the call-routing subsystem. No explicit external dependency is documented, but like other SONUS-* MIBs it is designed to sit alongside the vendor's broader enterprise MIB tree and standard SNMPv2-SMI conventions. Typical deployment is in carrier or enterprise VoIP/softswitch installations where NOC staff use SONUS-DIRECTORY-SERVICES-MIB SNMP monitoring to track routing table provisioning state alongside call performance MIBs.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in SONUS-DIRECTORY-SERVICES-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

  • Sonus Networks softswitch
  • Sonus/Ribbon media gateway controller

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll sonusDsRouteNameTable/sonusDsRouteNameEntry to see each configured route name (sonusDsRouteName) along with its associated trunk group names (sonusDsRoute1TgName through sonusDsRoute4TgName). Checking sonusDsRouteNameAdminState and sonusDsRouteNameRowStatus reveals whether a route entry is administratively enabled and valid, catching a route that was provisioned but left in a notReady or inactive row status, which would silently block call routing through that path. sonusDsRouteNameNextIndex is used internally for allocating new route indices during provisioning.

What Can Be Monitored

  • route name admin state
  • route name row status
  • trunk group associations per route
  • route table index allocation
Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus

From SONUS-SMI

sonusServicesMIBsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SONUS-TC

SonusName

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using sonusUnknownRoutes OID:

Select a Sonus Networks softswitch, Sonus/Ribbon media gateway controller (LDAP directory/route-table configuration) 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 sonusUnknownRoutes into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the number of unresolved directory service route look up since the last reset. 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

RFC description

Manages Sonus Networks softswitch LDAP directory services integration for subscriber and routing data.

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