All MIBs › Wellfleet-RESOURCE-MIB
Category: Wellfleet BayNetworks System Management
Description: Monitors Wellfleet system resource utilization including CPU load, memory pools, and buffer availability.
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What Is Wellfleet-RESOURCE-MIB?
Wellfleet-RESOURCE-MIB is a vendor-proprietary MIB originating from Wellfleet Communications (later merged into Bay Networks, then Nortel), covering system-level resource utilization on Wellfleet routers. It exposes performance and capacity data such as CPU load, memory pool allocation/utilization, and buffer availability across the device's processing and forwarding subsystems. This is squarely a hardware/software health monitoring MIB: it tracks CPU load and memory/buffer exhaustion, classic early-warning indicators of a router approaching performance limits, memory leaks, or buffer starvation that can precede packet loss or a device crash. As a legacy vendor-specific MIB predating many IETF conventions, it has no significant dependency on external standard MIBs. It was typically deployed on Wellfleet/Bay Networks routers in enterprise and carrier backbones during the era these platforms were in service, for baseline capacity and stability monitoring. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the Wellfleet-RESOURCE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Wellfleet / Bay Networks routers
Monitoring Examples
No sample objects were extracted for this module in the available source, so specific object names cannot be confirmed; however, consistent with its stated purpose an administrator would poll CPU utilization and memory pool objects to track processor load and free buffer/memory levels over time. A steady decline in available buffers or memory alongside rising CPU utilization would be a strong indicator of an impending resource exhaustion event or a memory leak requiring a reload or software upgrade.
What Can Be Monitored
- CPU utilization
- memory pool utilization
- buffer availability
Imported Objects
From RFC-1212
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From RFC1155-SMI
| Counter | |
| Gauge |
From RFC1213-MIB
| DisplayString |
From Wellfleet-COMMON-MIB
| wfGameGroup | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Monitors CPU, memory, and buffer resource utilization across Wellfleet network device entities and slots.
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