TOKEN-RING-RMON-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Category: Network Interfaces, Network Monitoring (RMON), Routing Protocols

Description: Extends the RMON MIB with Token Ring-specific statistics, history, ring station monitoring, and source routing statistics for IEEE 802.5 networks.

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What Is TOKEN-RING-RMON-MIB?

TOKEN-RING-RMON-MIB is a vendor-neutral IETF standards-track extension to the RMON (Remote Network Monitoring) MIB, adding managed objects specific to IEEE 802.5 Token Ring networks. It exposes data such as Token Ring traffic statistics, historical utilization trends, per-station (ring insertion) monitoring, and source-routing statistics used to trace frame paths across bridged Token Ring segments. In monitoring terms it is used almost entirely for software/protocol-level network performance visibility rather than device hardware health -- packet/octet counters, error rates, ring station beaconing and insertion/removal events, and source-route hop statistics that reveal ring instability or misconfigured bridges. It is a direct extension of the base RMON-MIB (RFC 1757/2819) and depends on that framework's control table conventions for setting up statistics collection. It would typically be deployed on legacy Token Ring switches, bridges, or standalone RMON probes monitoring older IBM-style ring networks, which are now largely obsolete outside legacy industrial or mainframe-attached environments, and administrators searching for token-ring-rmon-mib today are usually maintaining such legacy equipment.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in TOKEN-RING-RMON-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-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
  • Token Ring switch, bridge, or RMON probe

Monitoring Examples

An administrator monitoring ring health would poll the Token Ring history and statistics tables (typically indexed like tokenRingMLStatsTable/tokenRingMLHistoryTable entries) for counters such as line errors, burst errors, and ring beacon events, where a spike in beacon events signals a station has been isolated due to a faulty ring connection. Source-routing statistics tables would be checked to confirm frames are taking expected paths across bridged ring segments rather than looping. No specific sample object names were provided for this MIB, so this description is based on standard RMON Token Ring extension conventions rather than a table dump.

What Can Be Monitored

  • Token Ring utilization history
  • ring station insertion/removal events
  • beacon and line error counts
  • source-routing hop statistics
  • ring segment traffic statistics
Imported Objects

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter
TimeTicks

From RFC1271-MIB

OwnerString
historyOBJECT-IDENTITY
rmonOBJECT-IDENTITY
statisticsOBJECT-IDENTITY
OIDs

RFC description

Token Ring Remote Network Monitoring MIB (RFC 1271) defining MAC-layer statistics collection on token ring networks.

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