USR-VHA-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated October 06, 2026

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Organization: CommWorks Corporation, a 3Com Company

Last Updated: 2002-12-13

Category: CommWorks/3Com Access Equipment

Description: Manages virtual home agent mobility bindings and tunneling on CommWorks/3Com equipment.

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What Is USR-VHA-MIB?

USR-VHA-MIB is a CommWorks/3Com enterprise MIB defining objects for Virtual Home Agent (VHA) functionality, a Mobile IP component used to manage mobility bindings and tunneling for roaming subscribers. Because no object list was captured for this batch, its exact table structure cannot be detailed here, but by convention such mobility MIBs expose configuration for home agent addresses, binding tables tracking mobile node associations, and tunnel statistics. Its monitoring value would be primarily software/service-state oriented: verifying that mobile IP tunnels are established and mobility bindings are current, rather than hardware health. It likely complements or overlaps conceptually with the IETF Mobile IP MIB definitions (RFC 2006) even if not formally imported. Typical deployment is on CommWorks broadband/mobility gateways used by carriers to support mobile IP roaming services. Engineers can download the USR-VHA-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in USR-VHA-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

  • CommWorks/3Com mobility gateway
  • carrier broadband access equipment supporting Mobile IP

Monitoring Examples

Given the module description references VHA (Virtual Home Agent) mobility bindings, a monitoring scenario would involve polling binding-table entries to confirm active mobile node registrations and detect stale or expired bindings, but no sample objects were provided in this batch to name specific tables or counters.

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus

From USR-DEFINITIONS-MIB

Time1900
Time1970
UsrConfigStatus
UsrRegID
UsrSecretDisplay
UsrSpecialU32
commonOBJECT-IDENTITY

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using usrVHATotalConnInits OID:

Select a CommWorks/3Com mobility gateway, carrier broadband access equipment supporting Mobile IP (VHA binding/tunnel 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 usrVHATotalConnInits into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the total number of A10/A11 connections initiated. Counter epoch is indicated by usrVHAStatsResetTime. 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 sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline, since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

CommWorks/3Com VHA connection, registration, and security statistics for mobile networks.

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