TPT-STACKING-MIB

Description: Manages TippingPoint IPS appliance stacking topology, unit roles, and inter-chassis connectivity.

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TPT-STACKING-MIB is a Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS MIB covering appliance stacking — the topology, roles, and inter-chassis linkage when multiple TippingPoint devices are joined into a single logical stack for higher throughput or redundancy. It exposes state and fault-category data: per-device and per-stack runtime/topology identifiers (RTI values and their previous values) plus an explicit device fault cause object, alongside a matching notifications group carrying the same information as traps. Its use for hardware status monitoring is direct and explicit — stackingDeviceFaultCause and the corresponding tptStackingNotifyDeviceFaultCause exist specifically to report why a stacked unit has failed or degraded, letting an administrator distinguish a healthy stack member from one experiencing a hardware or link fault. It is TippingPoint/Trend Micro proprietary and is used alongside the vendor's port-mapping and other TPT-* device MIBs when appliances are stacked together. It is deployed in high-throughput inspection environments where several TippingPoint appliances are physically stacked and need to be monitored as a cohesive unit, typically starting with a TPT-STACKING-MIB download to load the module into an NMS or MIB browser.

An administrator would poll stackingDeviceRTI against stackingPrevDeviceRTI to detect a change in a stacked unit's role or topology state, and check stackingDeviceFaultCause to determine why a particular device in the stack is reporting a fault. The matching traps — tptStackingNotifyDeviceFaultCause, tptStackingNotifyDeviceRTI, and tptStackingNotifyPrevDeviceRTI, each tagged with tptStackingNotifyDeviceID and tptStackingNotifyTimeStamp — would let an NMS alert in real time when a stack member's health or role changes rather than waiting for the next poll cycle.

Manages device stacking and recovery information for TippingPoint ultralight security devices.