All MIBs › WWP-DHCP-CLIENT-MIB
Organization: World Wide Packets, Inc
Last Updated: 2001-04-03
Category: World Wide Packets Metro Ethernet
Description: Manages World Wide Packets DHCP client interface lease status, server addresses, and renewal configuration.
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What Is WWP-DHCP-CLIENT-MIB?
WWP-DHCP-CLIENT-MIB is a World Wide Packets (Ciena LEOS) proprietary MIB used to configure and monitor DHCP client behavior on device management or service interfaces. It exposes configuration data (DHCP enable/disable per interface, renewal timers) as well as status data such as current lease information and the DHCP server address that granted it. Its monitoring value lies in confirming that a device's management interface has successfully obtained and renewed its IP address lease, which is critical for continued reachability — a lease failure or unexpected server change is a network-health fault indicator. It depends conceptually on the standard DHCP protocol (RFC 2131) though implemented as a vendor-specific MIB rather than reusing IETF DHCP MIBs. It is deployed on World Wide Packets/Ciena LEOS Metro Ethernet devices that obtain their management IP address dynamically via DHCP. Engineers can download the WWP-DHCP-CLIENT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- World Wide Packets / Ciena LEOS Metro Ethernet device
Monitoring Examples
No sample object names were supplied; based on the description, the relevant objects would be a per-interface DHCP client status entry holding lease state, server IP address, and lease expiry/renewal timer. An admin would poll this to confirm the device's management interface still holds a valid, unexpired lease, and an unexpectedly expired or absent lease would explain a loss of management connectivity.
What Can Be Monitored
- DHCP client lease status
- DHCP server address
- lease renewal timer
- per-interface DHCP enable state
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE | |
| Unsigned32 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| TruthValue |
From WWP-SMI
| wwpModules | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
World Wide Packets (Ciena) DHCP Client MIB for managing DHCP client functionality on Ciena Service Delivery Switches. Provides SNMP objects for configuring and monitoring DHCP client behavior on networking equipment.
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