SWITCH-PORTMIRROR-MIB

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Organization: Raisecom, Inc.

Last Updated: 2004-12-20

Description: SWITCH-PORTMIRROR-MIB module

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What Is SWITCH-PORTMIRROR-MIB?

SWITCH-PORTMIRROR-MIB is a minimally documented MIB module for managing port mirroring (SPAN-like) functionality on a switch, letting traffic from one or more source ports be copied to a designated destination/monitor port for analysis. Since no short description and only the terse module description ("description of port mirror object") were provided, and no sample objects were supplied, the exact table/object structure cannot be confirmed, but such a MIB would typically expose configuration objects for selecting mirror source port(s), destination port, and mirroring direction (ingress/egress/both), along with an enable/disable status. It would be used to monitor and configure a diagnostic feature rather than a continuous hardware sensor — an operator checking whether port mirroring is active and correctly configured before or during traffic capture for troubleshooting. No specific external MIB dependency is evident from the available data, though such MIBs commonly reference IF-MIB ifIndex values for source/destination ports. It would typically be deployed on managed Ethernet switches wherever administrators need to capture and analyze traffic from specific ports using an external packet analyzer. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the SWITCH-PORTMIRROR-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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

Raisecom managed Ethernet switch

Monitoring Examples

No sample objects or short description were provided for this MIB, so concrete object or table names cannot be cited; based on the minimal module description ("description of port mirror object"), the expected use would be for an administrator to configure a mirror session (source port(s), destination port, direction) and verify it is active before attaching a packet-capture tool, but the specific object/table names cannot be confirmed from the data given.

Imported Objects

From RAISECOM-BASE-MIB

iscomSwitch

OBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

MacAddress
RowStatus

From SWITCH-TC

EnableVar
PortList
Vlanset

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
rcPortMirror	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4			description of port mirror object.
rcBaseConfig	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1
INT rcMirrorToPort	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.1	INTEGER	read-write	The monitor port.
ENA rcPortMirrorEnable	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.2	EnableVar	read-write	Enable or disable port mirroring.
ENA rcBlockNoMirrorTrafficEnable	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.3	EnableVar	read-write	When enabled, all traffic to monitor port is blocked except mirror traffic.
POR rcIngressMirrorPorts	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.4	PortList	read-write	Ingress Monitored ports mask. Bit mask which selectively allows any port with its corresponding bit set, to be mirrored to the monitor port.
POR rcEgressMirrorPorts	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.5	PortList	read-write	Egress Monitored ports mask. Bit mask which selectively allows any port with its corresponding bit set, to be mirrored to the monitor port.
POR rcMirrorPolicyPorts	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.6	PortList	read-write	Ingress Policy ports mask. Bit mask. which selectively allows any ports with its corresponding bit set, to be mirrored to the mirror destination port.
VLA rcMirrorVlans	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.7	Vlanset	read-write	Ingress Policy ports mask. Bit mask. which selectively allows any ports with its corresponding bit set, to be mirrored to the mirror destination port.
OCT rcIngressMirrorPorts64	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.8	OCTET STRING	read-write	Ingress Monitored ports mask. Bit mask which selectively allows any port with its corresponding bit set, to be mirrored to the monitor port.
OCT rcEgressMirrorPorts64	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.9	OCTET STRING	read-write	Egress Monitored ports mask. Bit mask which selectively allows any port with its corresponding bit set, to be mirrored to the monitor port.
OCT rcMirrorPolicyPorts64	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.1.10	OCTET STRING	read-write	Ingress Policy ports mask. Bit mask. which selectively allows any ports with its corresponding bit set, to be mirrored to the mirror destination port.
rcIngressMirror	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.2
INT rcIngressMirrorFilter	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.2.1	INTEGER	read-write	Set ingress mirror filter rule. all: mirror all frames from mirroring ports; damc: mirror all received frames with destination address equal with ingress MAC; samc: mirror all received frames with source address equal with ingress MAC.
I32 rcIngressMirrorDivider	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.2.2	Integer32	read-write	Receive frames that have passed the ingress mirror filter rule can further be pruned to reduce the overall number of frames returned to the monitor port. Frames that pass the ingress mirror filter rule are further divided by the value that user sets, so that only one in n frames(1/n of frames, where n='value') are mirrored.
MAC rcIngressMirrorMacAddress	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.2.3	MacAddress	read-write	MAC address that is compared against ingress frames in accordance with the ingress mirror filter rules.
rcEgressMirror	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.3
INT rcEgressMirrorFilter	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.3.1	INTEGER	read-write	Set egress mirror filter rule. all: mirror all frames from mirroring ports; damc: mirror all received frames with destination address equal with egress MAC; samc: mirror all received frames with source address equal with egress MAC.
I32 rcEgressMirrorDivider	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.3.2	Integer32	read-write	Receive frames that have passed the egress mirror filter rule can further be pruned to reduce the overall number of frames returned to the monitor port. Frames that pass the egress mirror filter rule are further divided by the value that user sets, so that only one in n frames(1/n of frames, where n='value') are mirrored.
MAC rcEgressMirrorMacAddress	1.3.6.1.4.1.8886.6.1.4.3.3	MacAddress	read-write	MAC address that is compared against ingress frames in accordance with the egress mirror filter rules.

RFC description

Generic switch MIB for configuring port mirroring (port sniffing) functionality on network switches, allowing traffic monitoring and copying between ports.

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