Wellfleet-OSPF-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated October 06, 2026

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Category: Wellfleet BayNetworks Routing Protocols

Description: Manages Wellfleet OSPF area configurations, neighbor adjacencies, LSA database, and route calculation statistics.

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What Is Wellfleet-OSPF-MIB?

Wellfleet-OSPF-MIB is a legacy vendor MIB from Wellfleet Communications (a router vendor later absorbed into Bay Networks/Nortel) for managing the OSPF interior gateway routing protocol on Wellfleet routers. It exposes OSPF area configuration, neighbor adjacency state, link-state advertisement (LSA) database contents, and route calculation statistics. Rather than hardware health, this MIB focuses on monitoring routing-protocol software status -- specifically OSPF neighbor adjacency state, LSA database size and age, and SPF recalculation counts -- which reveal routing instability or slow convergence. It closely parallels the later industry-standard OSPF-MIB (RFC 1253/1850), reflecting Wellfleet's proprietary OSPF implementation from before standardized MIBs were widely adopted. It was deployed on Wellfleet/Bay Networks routers in enterprise and service-provider backbone networks running OSPF, where Wellfleet-OSPF-MIB SNMP monitoring helped confirm neighbor adjacencies remained stable and converged.

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Supported Devices

  • Wellfleet/Bay Networks routers

Monitoring Examples

No object names were available for this module, but a realistic scenario would involve polling OSPF neighbor adjacency and area tables to confirm all expected neighbors remain in the full adjacency state; a neighbor dropping out of full state, or a spike in SPF recalculations, would indicate topology instability or a flapping link that needs investigation.

What Can Be Monitored

  • OSPF neighbor adjacency state
  • OSPF area configuration
  • LSA database contents
  • SPF route recalculation statistics
Imported Objects

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter
Gauge
IpAddress

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString

From Wellfleet-COMMON-MIB

wfOspfGroupOBJECT-IDENTITY
OIDs

RFC description

Manages OSPF routing protocol configuration and state on Wellfleet/Nortel router platforms.

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