USR-PM-MIB

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Organization: CommWorks Corporation, a 3Com Company

Last Updated: 2002-03-12

Category: CommWorks/3Com Access Equipment

Description: Monitors performance management counters and threshold crossing alerts on CommWorks/3Com equipment.

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What Is USR-PM-MIB?

USR-PM-MIB is a proprietary CommWorks/3Com MIB for the device's internal Policy Manager process, covering performance-management counters and threshold-crossing alerts on their broadband access equipment. It exposes a configuration table for policy manager instances (state, remote management access/type), configuration-file-management status flags, and alarm-related objects such as alarm level, alarm packet size, alarm storage location, and refresh timeout. Its monitoring focus is software process health and alerting: confirming the Policy Manager process itself is in the expected usrPmState, that remote management access is configured correctly, and that alarm/threshold conditions are being generated and stored as expected — a form of software-status and fault/alerting monitoring rather than raw hardware metrics. It depends on the device's broader configuration-management framework (paralleling USR-CONFIG-MIB's CFM status flag pattern). It would typically be deployed on CommWorks/3Com carrier-class access concentrators where policy-based performance monitoring and threshold alerting are configured centrally. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the USR-PM-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

CommWorks/3Com (US Robotics) broadband access equipment

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll usrPmState to confirm the Policy Manager process is running normally on a given usrPmConfigIndex instance, and check usrPmCFMStatusFlag to verify the policy configuration file loaded successfully. usrPmAlarmLevel and usrPmAlarmPktSize reveal the configured threshold-crossing alert sensitivity, while usrPmAlarmStorageLocation shows where generated alarms are being logged; a stuck or unexpected usrPmState value combined with a stale usrPmRefreshTimeout would indicate the policy manager has hung or is not refreshing its data.

What Can Be Monitored

policy manager process state
configuration-file load status
alarm/threshold level settings
alarm storage location
remote management access type
refresh timeout interval

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
TruthValue

From USR-DEFINITIONS-MIB

UsrConfigStatus
UsrDisplayString
UsrPolicyfileName
common	OBJECT-IDENTITY

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
usrPm	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69			The commWorks enterprise defined MIB objects for the Policy Manager process.
USR usrPmCFMStatusFlag	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.1	UsrConfigStatus	read-write	This variable controls saving and loading of configuration information for the PM Module. The value can be set to either save or load by a management station. The other values indicate if any configuration operation and what type is in progress.
STR usrPmCfgFileName	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.2	UsrDisplayString	read-only	The name of a ConfigFile to read/write permanent database records. If the value of this object is an empty string, then the PM module uses the default name `@file://PMModule.cfg'.
usrPmConfigTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3		not-accessible
usrPmConfigEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1		not-accessible
T/F usrPmState	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1.1	TruthValue	read-only	This flag shows whether the Policy Manager has been enabled or disabled.
T/F usrPmRemoteManAccess	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1.2	TruthValue	read-only	This flag shows whether the Policy Manager allows remote configuration/management by an Management Station or not.
STR usrPmRemoteManType	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1.3	UsrDisplayString	read-only	Describes the means by which a remote management station can configure/manage the Policy Manager, e.g. via http, snmp etc.
I32 usrPmAlarmLevel	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1.4	Integer32	read-only	This value determines the grade of information logging done by the Policy Manager /Flow Manager.
I32 usrPmAlarmPktSize	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1.5	Integer32	read-only	The size of the packet that will be saved in syslog (or other) records.
STR usrPmAlarmStorageLocation	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1.6	UsrDisplayString	read-only	The destination for alarm messages and records.
I32 usrPmRefreshTimeout	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1.7	Integer32	read-only	The time (in minutes) during checks on validity of flows in the flow database.
STR usrPmSupportedApplications	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1.8	UsrDisplayString	read-only	Client Applications registered with the Policy Manager (QOS,IPSEC,NAT,FW,SOCKS).
I32 usrPmConfigIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.3.1.9	Integer32	read-only	A unique value for each PM Config file.
usrPolicyTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.4		not-accessible	A table of policy file names. The actual policy information is stored in an ASCII file in flash.
usrPolicyEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.4.1		not-accessible	The parameters for a policy file.
USR usrPolicyfileName	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.4.1.1	UsrPolicyfileName	not-accessible	The character name for this policy file.
INT usrPolicyfileStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.4.1.2	INTEGER	read-write	The status of this policy file entry. Valid row entries in this table have the status field set to normal. The settable values are normal and delete. If the instance is not in the table and the status is normal, this will be an add operation. If the instance is in the table and the status is normal, this will be a modify operation. If the instance is in the table and the status is delete, this will be a delete operation. The values reading, verifying, and compiling are read-only.
STR usrPolicyfileAssociation	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.4.1.3	DisplayString	read-only	Details the interface/user that this Policy file is associated with.
STR usrPolicyfileVerifyError	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.4.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	The error string returned when a policy file fails its verification process. Otherwise, this field is NULL.
INT usrPolicyPrintAccess	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.4.1.5	INTEGER	read-write	This will allow user policy to be printed during compilation.
INT usrDynamicIPSec	1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.69.5	INTEGER	read-write	This variable controls the Dynamic IPSec Association capability.

RFC description

3Com CommWorks Policy Manager process enterprise MIB objects and configuration.

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What Is USR-PM-MIB?

Supported Devices

Monitoring Examples

What Can Be Monitored

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