SWITCH-BRIDGE-MIB

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Last Updated: 1997--0-4-

Category: Switch Management - General

Description: Manages switch bridge protocol configuration, STP port state, and bridge forwarding operations.

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What Is SWITCH-BRIDGE-MIB?

SWITCH-BRIDGE-MIB is a proprietary switch-vendor extension of the standard Bridge MIB (RFC 1493), adapted to support multiple bridge instances, one per VLAN, within a single physical switch chassis. It exposes per-VLAN bridge and Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) attributes, including virtual port state, that were single-instance objects in the base RFC 1493 standard. Monitoring it reveals the software health of the switch's STP implementation, such as detecting a virtual port stuck in a blocking state, an unexpected root bridge change, or a spanning tree recalculation that could signal a physical loop or a link flap. It has an explicit dependency on SWITCH-VLAN-MIB, since the virtual port numbers used to index its tables are defined there, and it is itself derived from IETF RFC 1493 (BRIDGE-MIB). It is deployed on VLAN-capable enterprise switches running a chassis-wide, multiple-instance spanning tree. Engineers can download the SWITCH-BRIDGE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in SWITCH-BRIDGE-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

  • vendor-specific managed Ethernet switch supporting multiple VLAN-aware bridge instances (vendor unspecified in available source)

Monitoring Examples

The available source material lists no concrete object or table names for this MIB, only its structural description. In practice a module like this is polled per VLAN to read the per-instance STP bridge and port state (blocking, listening, learning, forwarding) so an admin can spot a port stuck outside the forwarding state, which would explain a VLAN losing connectivity. Because virtual ports are shared with SWITCH-VLAN-MIB, an unexpected port-count mismatch between the two modules would also flag a configuration problem.

What Can Be Monitored

  • per-VLAN spanning tree bridge state
  • virtual port STP state (blocking/forwarding)
  • bridge forwarding table entries
  • root bridge identifier per VLAN instance
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks

From SNMPv2-TC

MacAddress
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

From SWITCH-VLAN-MIB

vLanNumberOBJECT-TYPE

From TELESYN-ATI-TC

bridgeModuleOBJECT-IDENTITY

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using switchBridgeTpLearnedEntryDiscards OID:

Select a vendor-specific managed Ethernet switch, multi-VLAN bridge instance (per-VLAN STP status) 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 switchBridgeTpLearnedEntryDiscards into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The total number of Forwarding Database entries, which have been or would have been learned, but have been discarded due to a lack of space to store them in the Forwarding Database. 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 between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Bridge and spanning tree protocol management with VLAN support for network switches.

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