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Network Working Group A. Bierman Request for Comments: 3287 Cisco Systems, Inc. Category: Standards Track July 2002

              Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for
                    Differentiated Services

Status of this Memo

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes managed objects used for monitoring Differentiated Services (DS) Codepoint usage in packets which contain a DS field, utilizing the monitoring framework defined in the RMON-2 (Remote Network Monitoring Management Version 2) MIB.

Table of Contents

1 The SNMP Network Management Framework ........................... 2 2 Overview ........................................................ 3 2.1 Terms ......................................................... 4 2.2 Relationship to Differentiated Services ....................... 4 2.3 Relationship to the Remote Monitoring MIBs .................... 5 3 MIB Structure ................................................... 6 3.1 DSCP Counter Aggregation ...................................... 7 3.1.1 Counter Aggregation Configuration .......................... 8 3.2 MIB Group Overview ........................................... 8 3.2.1 DSCP Counter Aggregation Control Group ..................... 9 3.2.2 DS Statistics Group ........................................ 10 3.2.3 DS Protocol Distribution Group ............................. 10 3.2.4 DS Host Distribution Group ................................. 11 3.2.5 DSMON Capabilities Group ................................... 12 3.2.6 DS Matrix Distribution Group ............................... 13 3.3 RMON vs. DSMON Indexing Structure ............................ 13 4 Definitions .................................................... 16

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5 Counter Aggregation Configuration Usage Examples .............. 108 5.1 Step 1: Unlock the Counter Aggregation Configuration ........ 109 5.2 Step 2: Check the Maximum number of Counter Aggregation Groups ..................................................... 109 5.3 Step 3: Check if the counter aggregation profiles already exist ...................................................... 109 5.4 Step 4: Create the Counter Aggregation Control Entries ...... 109 5.5 Step 5: Create the Counter Aggregation Group Descriptions ............................................................ 110 5.6 Step 6: Create the Counter Aggregation Profile Mappings ..... 112 5.7 Step 7: Lock the Counter Aggregation Configuration .......... 115 6 Intellectual Property ......................................... 115 7 Acknowledgements .............................................. 116 8 References .................................................... 116 9 Security Considerations ....................................... 118 10 Author's Address ............................................. 119 11 Full Copyright Statement ..................................... 120

1. The SNMP Network Management Framework

The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major components:

o An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [[RFC2571](./rfc2571 ""An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks"")].

o Mechanisms for describing and naming objects and events for the purpose of management. The first version of this Structure of Management Information (SMI) is called SMIv1 and is described in STD 16, RFC 1155 [[RFC1155](./rfc1155 ""Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets"")], STD 16, RFC 1212 [[RFC1212](./rfc1212 ""Concise MIB Definitions"")] and RFC 1215 [[RFC1215](./rfc1215 ""A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP"")]. The second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD 58, RFC 2578 [[RFC2578](./rfc2578 ""Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)"")], RFC 2579 [[RFC2579](./rfc2579 ""Textual Conventions for SMIv2"")] and RFC 2580 [[RFC2580](./rfc2580 ""Conformance Statements for SMIv2"")].

o Message protocols for transferring management information. The first version of the SNMP message protocol is called SNMPv1 and is described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [[RFC1157](./rfc1157 ""Simple Network Management Protocol"")]. A second version of the SNMP message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track protocol, is called SNMPv2c and is described in RFC 1901 [[RFC1901](./rfc1901 ""Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2"")] and RFC 1906 [[RFC1906](./rfc1906 ""Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")]. The third version of the message protocol is called SNMPv3 and is described in RFC 1906 [[RFC1906](./rfc1906 ""Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")], RFC 2572 [[RFC2572](./rfc2572 ""Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)"")] and RFC 2574 [[RFC2574](./rfc2574 ""User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)"")].

o Protocol operations for accessing management information. The first set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [[RFC1157](./rfc1157 ""Simple Network Management Protocol"")]. A second set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is described in RFC 1905 [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")].

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o A set of fundamental applications described in RFC 2573 [[RFC2573](./rfc2573 ""SNMPv3 Applications"")] and the view-based access control mechanism described in RFC 2575 [[RFC2575](./rfc2575 ""View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)"")].

A more detailed introduction to the current SNMP Management Framework can be found in RFC 2570 [[RFC2570](./rfc2570 ""Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework"")].

Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI.

This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2. A MIB conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically equivalent, except where objects or events are omitted because no translation is possible (use of Counter64). Some machine readable information in SMIv2 will be converted into textual descriptions in SMIv1 during the translation process. However, this loss of machine readable information is not considered to change the semantics of the MIB.

2. Overview

There is a need for a standardized way of monitoring the network traffic usage of Differentiated Services (DS) [[RFC2474](./rfc2474 ""Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers"")] codepoint values. Each DS codepoint (DSCP) value may be given a different treatment by a forwarding device, and this affects which packets get dropped or delayed during periods of network congestion.

The IETF DIFFSERV working group has redefined the semantics of the Type of Service (TOS) octet in the IP header, which is now called the 'DS field'. The 6-bit Codepoint (DSCP) portion is contained in the DS field, which provides for 64 different packet treatments for the implementation of differentiated network services.

By polling DSCP usage counters, an NMS can determine the network throughput for traffic associated with different DSCPs. This data can then be analyzed in order to 'tune' DSCP 'allocations' within a network, based on the Quality of Service (QoS) policies for that network.

Remote monitoring agents are typically implemented as independent software (and sometimes hardware) components, called 'RMON probes'. Note that DSMON-capable RMON probes simply collect and aggregate statistics, based on criteria (which includes the DSCP value) that can be determined by inspecting the contents of monitored packets and do not in any way monitor any aspect of a DS forwarding device's internal statistics.

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2.1. Terms

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119. [[RFC2119](./rfc2119 ""Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels"")]

This document uses some terms that need introduction:

DataSource A source of data for monitoring purposes. This term is used exactly as defined in the RMON-2 MIB [[RFC2021](./rfc2021 ""Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2"")].

protocol A specific protocol encapsulation, as identified for monitoring purposes. This term is used exactly as defined in the RMON Protocol Identifiers document [RFC2074].

Counter Aggregation Group A group of statistical counters that are being combined in the agent to produce one aggregated counter. Refer to sections 3.1 and 3.2.1 for details on counter aggregation groups.

Counter Aggregation Profile Also called 'profile'; A complete set of counter aggregation group mappings for DSCP values (i.e., 64 mappings, for each DSCP values 0 to 63), which are applied to all monitored packets on a particular data source and/or DSMON collection. Refer to sections 3.1 and 3.2.1 for details on counter aggregation profiles.

High Capacity Monitoring The generic capability to collect and store statistics with an internal range of 64 bits (e.g., Counter64). This term does not refer to implementation of the High Capacity RMON MIB [[RFC3273](./rfc3273 ""Remote Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity Networks"")].

2.2. Relationship to Differentiated Services

The DSMON MIB is a product of the RMONMIB WG, not the DIFFSERV WG, and it focuses on extending several existing RMON mechanisms to support additional packet classification, based on DSCP values observed in monitored packets. This document assumes the reader is familiar with the DS Architecture [[RFC2475](./rfc2475 ""An Architecture for Differentiated Services"")].

It is expected that complex management applications will use the counters in this MIB to help analyze DS-related throughput. It is expected that other metrics, such as delay and jitter, will also be analyzed, but support for other metrics is outside the scope of this document.

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2.3. Relationship to the Remote Monitoring MIBs

This MIB is intended to be implemented in Remote Monitoring (RMON) probes, which support the RMON-2 MIB [[RFC2021](./rfc2021 ""Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2"")]. Such probes may be stand-alone devices, or may be co-located with other networking devices (e.g., ethernet switches and repeaters).

The DSMON functions are intended to be implemented in conjunction with the associated RMON functions, but the MIB is independent of all other RMON data tables.

Several concepts and even MIB objects from the RMON MIBs are used in the DSMON MIB:

Protocol Directory The RMON-2 MIB [[RFC2021](./rfc2021 ""Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2"")] defines the protocolDirTable, which is a directory of all the protocols that the RMON-2 agent is capable of decoding and counting. The DSMON MIB utilizes this directory to identify the protocols detected in monitored packets. The protocolDirLocalIndex MIB object is used to identify protocol encapsulations in all DSMON data tables which classify and aggregate by protocol type in some manner. Note that the protocolDirTable is used for protocol identification only, independent of DSCP classification.

TimeFilter The RMON-2 TimeFilter textual convention provides a mechanism to retrieve only rows which have been created or modified since the last polling interval (for a particular NMS). The DSMON MIB uses this textual convention in the large data tables, in order to minimize polling impact.

Zero-Based Counters Since counters are instantiated by management action, as in the RMON MIBs, the DSMON MIB uses zero-based counters in all data collection tables. Specifically, the ZeroBasedCounter32 textual convention from the RMON-2 MIB [[RFC2021](./rfc2021 ""Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2"")] and the ZeroBasedCounter64 textual convention (defined in the HCNUM-TC MIB [[RFC2856](./rfc2856 ""Textual Conventions for Additional High Capacity Data Types"")]) are used to define counter objects in this MIB.

High Capacity Counters The DSMON MIB uses the 'SNMPv1 coexistence' strategy adopted by the RMONMIB WG. That is, where a 64-bit counter is provided, a 32-bit version of the counter, and a 32-bit overflow counter are also provided.

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TopN Reports The DSMON MIB uses the same TopN reporting MIB structure as the RMON-2 MIB [[RFC2021](./rfc2021 ""Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2"")]. TopN reporting can greatly reduce the polling overhead required to analyze DSCP usage patterns.

Some DESCRIPTION clauses for DSMON objects are very similar to those for existing RMON-2 or HC-RMON objects. This is intentional, since the semantics of the DSMON features are designed to be as close to existing RMON feature as possible, to allow developers and users some level of 'MIB re-use'.

3. MIB Structure

          Figure 1: DSMON MIB Functional Structure

   +--------------+     +---------------+
   |              |     |    Counter    |
   |    DSMON     |     |  Aggregation  |
   | Capabilities |     |    Control    |
   |              |     |               |
   +--------------+     +---------------+
                               |
                               |
+------------------------------+----------------------------+
|                              V                            |
|                                                           |
| +-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ +------------+  |
| |           | |           | |           | |            |  |
| | Data Src  | | Protocol  | | Net. Host | | App Matrix |  |
| |   Stats   | |  Stats    | |   Stats   | |    Stats   |  |
| |           | |           | |           | |            |  |
| +-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ +------------+  |
|                     |             |             |         |
|                     V             V             V         |
|               +-----------+ +-----------+ +------------+  |
|               |           | |           | |            |  |
|               | Protocol  | | Net. Host | | App Matrix |  |
|               |   TopN    | |   TopN    | |    TopN    |  |
|               |           | |           | |            |  |
|               +-----------+ +-----------+ +------------+  |
|                                                           |
|                     Data Collection                       |
|                                                           |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+

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The DSMON MIB can divided into three functional components:

DSMON Capabilities Describes which DSMON object groups are supported by the agent on at least one data source.
Counter Aggregation Control Controls how individual DIFFSERV codepoint counters are aggregated in DSMON data collections.
Data Collection Controls how individual statistical collections are maintained by the agent and reported to management applications. The individual boxes within the Data Collection box represent the DSMON data collections (described in section 3.2):
- Data Source Statistics
- Protocol Statistics
- Protocol Statistics TopN Reporting
- Network Protocol Host Statistics
- Network Protocol Host Statistics TopN Reporting
- Application Protocol Matrix Statistics
- Application Protocol Matrix Statistics TopN Reporting

3.1. DSCP Counter Aggregation

A mechanism to configure the agent to internally aggregate counters is provided, based on DSCP values. This is desirable for several reasons:

agent data reduction An agent implementation can potentially reduce the number of counters maintained for a given DSMON collection.
agent data collection limitations Some implementation strategies might provide for a limited number of high-speed (e.g., hardware-based) counters for either single or aggregated codepoints.
application data retrieval reduction Applications that would otherwise aggregate counters for individual codepoints can move that function to the agent in order to reduce the polling overhead on the application, the network, and the agent device.
some unused codepoints at this time Various DSCP values may be expected to remain unused on a given network, and may be aggregated for counting purposes.

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some DSCP values are mapped to the same packet treatment A network administrator may align the counter aggregation configuration of the monitoring device with the DS configuration, and aggregate statistics for DSCP values which are expected to receive the same treatment by the forwarding devices.

3.1.1. Counter Aggregation Configuration

The configuration of DSCP counter to counter aggregation group mappings is managed in a global manner, so that these settings can be shared across several DSMON collections and/or data sources. One complete set of DSCP counter mappings is called a counter aggregation profile. The DSMON control tables are very similar to existing RMON-2 control tables, except they contain an extra parameter to identify the counter aggregation profile the agent should use for the collection.

The appropriate granularity for counter aggregation profile assignment may be the data source, but in order to reduce MIB complexity (by avoiding an extra layer of tables), an instance of the counter aggregation profile parameter exists for each collection. An agent MAY choose to restrict configurations such that all DSMON data collections for the same data source must use the same counter aggregation profile.

The DSMON MIB supports the configuration of an arbitrary number of counter aggregation profiles. There is a top-level counter aggregation control table, which contains one entry for each counter aggregation profile. A subordinate counter aggregation profile table provides information about each DSCP counter to counter aggregation group mapping in each profile. An auxiliary counter aggregation group table also provides descriptive information about each counter aggregation group in each profile. Refer to section 3.2.1 for details on these MIB objects.

3.2. MIB Group Overview

The DSMON MIB contains six groups of MIB objects:

dsmonAggregateControl group Controls the configuration of counter aggregation groups for the purpose of reducing the total number of counters maintained by the agent.
dsmonStatsObjects group Report per counter aggregation group distribution statistics for a particular RMON dataSource.

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dsmonPdistObjects group Report per counter aggregation group distribution statistics for each application protocol detected on a particular RMON dataSource.
dsmonHostObjects group Report host address distribution statistics for each counter aggregation group, detected on a particular RMON dataSource.
dsmonCapsObjects group Report the static DSMON MIB functional capabilities of the agent implementation.
dsmonMatrixObjects group Report host address pair distribution statistics for each counter aggregation group, detected on a particular RMON dataSource.

3.2.1. DSCP Counter Aggregation Control Group

This group contains 4 scalar objects and three tables, and is used by a management station to configure counter aggregation profiles.

The dsmonMaxAggGroups scalar is a read-only integer which indicates the maximum number of counter aggregation groups that the agent will allow to be configured into a single aggregation profile. This value SHOULD be equal to 64 (the number of codepoints), but an agent MAY limit the number of counter aggregation groups because of resource limitations (e.g., small number of hardware-based counters). At least one counter aggregation profile containing at least two counter aggregation groups SHOULD be supported by the agent. (Note that classifying all DSCP counters into the same statistical 'bucket' may yield a redundant data collection, which can be achieved more easily with an HC-RMON or RMON-2 collection instead.)

The dsmonAggControlLocked scalar is used as a top level switch, controlling most write access to the dsmonAggControlTable, dsmonAggProfileTable, and dsmonAggGroupTable. (The dsmonAggControlOwner object is the only exception.) All active DSMON collection data is deleted, and collection suspended, while this object is equal to 'false', since the meaning of one or more counter aggregation control tables may change when it is set back to 'true'.

The dsmonAggControlChanges counter and dsmonAggControlLastChangeTime timestamp can be used by a management station to detect that the codepoint to counter aggregation group mappings may have changed between polls.

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The dsmonAggControlTable is a read-create table which contains one entry for each counter aggregation profile configured on the agent. Each entry is identified by a dsmonAggControlIndex value, which is also used as the major index into the dsmonAggProfileTable and dsmonAggGroupTable. The DSMON control tables with DataSource objects select a counter aggregation profile by referencing this index value.

The dsmonAggProfileTable is a read-write table which contains 64 rows for each associated entry in the dsmonAggControlTable, which MUST be indexed from 0 to 63. The agent creates this set of 64 instances when the associated dsmonAggControlEntry is activated, and deletes them when that dsmonAggControlEntry is deactivated. Each of the 64 rows represents a conceptual DSCP counter, identified by the same dsmonAggProfileDSCP value, and contains the DSCP counter to counter aggregation group mapping for that DSCP counter, in the indicated profile. The agent SHOULD use the value zero as the initial counter aggregation group assignment for each entry in this table.

The dsmonAggGroupTable contains an administratively assigned descriptive label for each configured counter aggregation group. This table is not required to be fully configured in order for data collection to occur, since collections are identified by the agent with integer indices. It is provided to allow the agent to store a descriptive string for each configured counter aggregation group. There is no attempt made to convey any real semantics for each counter aggregation group. A management station MAY choose not to configure entries in this table.

3.2.2. DS Statistics Group

This group contains two tables, the dsmonStatsControlTable and the dsmonStatsTable, and supports counter aggregation group distribution statistics for half and full-duplex, low and high speed interfaces. Packet and octets distributions are maintained in the dsmonStatsTable for each active control row in the dsmonStatsControlTable.

This group provides the lowest statistics granularity in the DSMON MIB. It is expected that a management application will analyze certain DS deployment or performance problems by first examining the counter aggregation group distribution for an entire data source with this group.

3.2.3. DS Protocol Distribution Group

This group contains two tables for statistics collection, (dsmonPdistCtlTable and dsmonPdistStatsTable), and two tables for a 'Top N' reporting function for the collected statistics (dsmonPdistTopNCtlTable and dsmonPdistTopNTable).

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The dsmonPdistCtlTable and dsmonPdistStatsTable tables provide counter aggregation group distribution statistics for each selected protocol encapsulation in packets monitored on a particular dataSource. Packet and octets distributions (per counter aggregation group per protocol) are maintained in the dsmonPdistStatsTable for each active control row in the dsmonPdistCtlTable.

Due to the potentially large number of entries, the DS Protocol Distribution is different from the RMON-2 protocol distribution group in several ways:

maximum desired entries parameter added to the control table
inserts and deletes counters added to the control table
support for LRU garbage collection in the dsmonPdistStatsTable
TimeFilter index added to the dsmonPdistStatsTable
the selection of protocols is not configurable. Rather than select individual protocols to monitor, (e.g., via a 'supportedOn/Off' extension to the protocolDirTable [RFC 2021]), a simplified configuration mechanism is provided. Since DSCP usage statistics are most interesting at the application layer, the dsmonPdistStatsTable is 'hardwired' to select only application layer (i.e., 'terminal') protocols for statistical analysis.

The TopN feature requires two additional tables: the dsmonPdistTopNCtlTable and the dsmonPdistTopNTable, and supports periodic usage reporting for the statistics maintained in the dsmonPdistStatsTable. This feature allows for simple periodic retrieval of the most used application/counter aggregation group combinations.

3.2.4. DS Host Distribution Group

This group contains two tables for statistics collection, (dsmonHostCtlTable and dsmonHostTable), and two tables for a 'Top N' reporting function for the collected statistics (dsmonHostTopNCtlTable and dsmonHostTopNTable).

The dsmonHostCtlTable and dsmonHostTables provide host distribution statistics for each counter aggregation group detected in packets monitored on a particular dataSource. The DSMON Host collection is similar to the RMON-2 network layer host collection (nlHostTable). There is no DSMON application host table defined at this time.

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It is expected that a management application will analyze certain DS deployment or performance problems by first determining the high priority DSCP values to examine (beyond the scope of this document) and then examining the dsmonHostTable or dsmonHostTopNTable statistics to determine which hosts are using the selected counter aggregation groups.

Packet and octets distributions (in and out, per counter aggregation group per host) are maintained in the dsmonHostTable for each active control row in the dsmonHostCtlTable.

The DS Host Distribution is different from the RMON-2 network layer host group in two ways:

the protocolDirLocalIndex in the INDEX clause MUST identify a network protocol encapsulation which contains a DS field (e.g., IPv4 or IPv6). If a protocol encapsulation with multiple network layers is specified, then associated entries in this table refer to the innermost network protocol layer.
the dsmonHostCtlTable supports limited IPv4 and IPv6 prefix aggregation by allowing the number of 'monitored address bits' in each address to be configured for each collection. The agent will zero out the selected number of rightmost address bits for counting purposes. This configuration parameter can dramatically reduce the number of entries which must be maintained by the agent, which should reduce CPU and memory resource requirements on the agent, and reduce polling overhead on the network and the management station. However, only one mask can be configured for each address type, rather than multiple different length masks for each address type, based on prefix value.

The TopN feature requires two additional tables: the dsmonHostTopNCtlTable and the dsmonHostTopNTable, and supports periodic usage reporting for the statistics maintained in the dsmonHostTable. This feature allows for simple periodic retrieval of the most used IP-host/DSCP combinations.

3.2.5. DSMON Capabilities Group

This group contains a single read-only scalar object, dsmonCapabilities, which provides an indication of the MIB groups within this MIB that the agent supports.

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3.2.6. DS Matrix Distribution Group

This group contains three tables for statistics collection, (dsmonMatrixCtlTable, dsmonMatrixSDTable, and dsmonMatrixDSTable), and two tables for a 'Top N' reporting function for the collected statistics (dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTable and dsmonMatrixTopNTable).

The dsmonMatrixCtlTable, dsmonMatrixSDTable, and dsmonMatrixDSTable provide host-pair distribution statistics for each counter aggregation group detected in packets monitored on a particular dataSource. The DSMON Matrix collection is similar to the RMON-2 application layer matrix collection (alMatrixSDTable and alMatrixDSTable). There is no DSMON network layer matrix table defined at this time.

It is expected that a management application will analyze certain DS deployment or performance problems by first determining the high priority DSCP values to examine (beyond the scope of this document) and then examining the dsmonMatrixSDTable, dsmonMatrixDSTable, and/or dsmonMatrixTopNTable statistics to determine which host-pairs are using the selected counter aggregation groups.

Packet and octets distributions (source to destination, per counter aggregation group per host-pair) are maintained in the dsmonMatrixSDTable and dsmonMatrixDSTable for each active control row in the dsmonMatrixCtlTable.

The TopN feature requires two additional tables: the dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTable and the dsmonMatrixTopNTable, and supports periodic usage reporting for the statistics maintained in the dsmonMatrixSDTable. This feature allows for simple periodic retrieval of the most used IP-host-pair/DSCP combinations.

3.3. RMON vs. DSMON Indexing Structure

The DSMON-MIB control and data tables are very similar in structure and look-and-feel to existing RMON-2 and HC-RMON control tables for the comparable feature, in order to maintain consistent agent behavior and functionality across RMON MIBs. The DSMON data tables are indexed as closely as possible to the comparable RMON-2 or HC- RMON tables, with the addition of an index component for DSCP-based classification (i.e. dsmonAggGroup). Refer to Table 1 for a comparison of DSMON indexing structure with similar existing RMON features.

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                 Table 1: DSMON Indexing Comparison

       Existing RMON                 DSMON
--------------------------------------------------------------------
                  Full Duplex Interface Statistics

mediaIndependentEntry            | dsmonStatsControlEntry
   mediaIndependentIndex         |    dsmonStatsControlIndex
                                 | dsmonStatsEntry
                                 |    dsmonStatsControlIndex,
                                 |    dsmonAggGroupIndex
---------------------------------+------------------------------
                          Protocol Statistics

protocolDistControlEntry         | dsmonPdistCtlEntry
   protocolDistControlIndex      |    dsmonPdistCtlIndex
protocolDistStatsEntry           | dsmonPdistStatsEntry
   protocolDistControlIndex,     |    dsmonPdistCtlIndex,
   protocolDirLocalIndex         |    dsmonPdistTimeMark,
                                 |    dsmonAggGroupIndex,
                                 |    protocolDirLocalIndex
---------------------------------+--------------------------------
                     Protocol TopN Distribution

                                 | dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry
                                 |    dsmonPdistTopNCtlIndex
              none               | dsmonPdistTopNEntry
                                 |    dsmonPdistTopNCtlIndex,
                                 |    dsmonPdistTopNIndex
---------------------------------+--------------------------------
                        Network Host Statistics

 hlHostControlEntry              | dsmonHostCtlEntry
    hlHostControlIndex           |    dsmonHostCtlIndex
 nlHostEntry                     | dsmonHostEntry
    hlHostControlIndex,          |    dsmonHostCtlIndex,
    nlHostTimeMark,              |    dsmonHostTimeMark,
    protocolDirLocalIndex,       |    dsmonAggGroupIndex,
    nlHostAddress                |    protocolDirLocalIndex,
                                 |    dsmonHostAddress
---------------------------------+--------------------------------

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              Table 1 (Continued): DSMON Indexing Comparison

       Existing RMON                 DSMON

---------------------------------+--------------------------------
                     Network Host TopN Distribution

                                 | dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry
                                 |    dsmonHostTopNCtlIndex
              none               | dsmonHostTopNEntry
                                 |    dsmonHostTopNCtlIndex,
                                 |    dsmonHostTopNIndex
---------------------------------+--------------------------------
                   Application Matrix Statistics

 hlMatrixControlEntry            | dsmonMatrixCtlEntry
    hlMatrixControlIndex         |    dsmonMatrixCtlIndex
 alMatrixSDEntry                 | dsmonMatrixSDEntry
    hlMatrixControlIndex,        |    dsmonMatrixCtlIndex,
    alMatrixSDTimeMark,          |    dsmonMatrixTimeMark,
    protocolDirLocalIndex,       |    dsmonAggGroupIndex,
    nlMatrixSDSourceAddress,     |    dsmonMatrixNLIndex,
    nlMatrixSDDestAddress        |    dsmonMatrixSourceAddress
    protocolDirLocalIndex        |    dsmonMatrixDestAddress
                                 |    dsmonMatrixALIndex
 alMatrixDSEntry                 | dsmonMatrixDSEntry
    hlMatrixControlIndex,        |    dsmonMatrixCtlIndex,
    alMatrixDSTimeMark,          |    dsmonMatrixTimeMark,
    protocolDirLocalIndex,       |    dsmonAggGroupIndex,
    nlMatrixDSDestAddress,       |    dsmonMatrixNLIndex,
    nlMatrixDSSourceAddress      |    dsmonMatrixDestAddress
    protocolDirLocalIndex        |    dsmonMatrixSourceAddress
                                 |    dsmonMatrixALIndex
---------------------------------+--------------------------------
                  Application Matrix TopN Distribution

                                 | dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry
              none               |    dsmonMatrixTopNCtlIndex
                                 | dsmonMatrixTopNEntry
   (similar to nlMatrixTopN)     |    dsmonMatrixTopNCtlIndex,
                                 |    dsmonMatrixTopNIndex
---------------------------------+--------------------------------

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4. Definitions

DSMON-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

IMPORTS MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE, Integer32, Counter32, Gauge32 FROM SNMPv2-SMI MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP FROM SNMPv2-CONF RowStatus, TimeStamp, TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, TruthValue FROM SNMPv2-TC OwnerString, rmon FROM RMON-MIB protocolDirLocalIndex, LastCreateTime, DataSource, ZeroBasedCounter32, TimeFilter FROM RMON2-MIB CounterBasedGauge64, ZeroBasedCounter64 FROM HCNUM-TC SnmpAdminString FROM SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB Dscp FROM DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC;

dsmonMIB MODULE-IDENTITY LAST-UPDATED "200205310000Z" ORGANIZATION "IETF RMONMIB Working Group" CONTACT-INFO " Andy Bierman Cisco Systems, Inc. RMONMIB WG Chair and DSMON MIB Editor

         Postal: 170 West Tasman Drive
                 San Jose, CA USA 95134
            Tel: +1 408 527-3711
         E-mail: abierman@cisco.com

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DESCRIPTION
        "This module defines Remote Monitoring MIB extensions for
        Differentiated Services enabled networks.

         RMON DIFFSERV DSCP statistics
          * Per Counter Aggregation Group
          * Per Protocol Per Counter Aggregation Group
          * Per Counter Aggregation Group Per Host

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          * Per Counter Aggregation Group Per Host-Pair

        In order to maintain the RMON 'look-and-feel' and semantic
        consistency, some of the text from the RMON-2 and HC-RMON
        MIBs by Steve Waldbusser has been adapted for use in this
        MIB."
REVISION        "200205310000Z"
DESCRIPTION
        "Initial version of the DSMON MIB module.  This version
        published as [RFC 3287](./rfc3287)."
::= { rmon 26 }

dsmonObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonMIB 1 } dsmonNotifications OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonMIB 2 } dsmonConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonMIB 3 }

dsmonAggObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonObjects 1 } dsmonStatsObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonObjects 2 } dsmonPdistObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonObjects 3 } dsmonHostObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonObjects 4 } dsmonCapsObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonObjects 5 } dsmonMatrixObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonObjects 6 }

-- -- Textual Convention to define a -- DSMON Counter Aggregation Group Index

DsmonCounterAggGroupIndex ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This TC describes a data type which identifies a DSMON counter aggregation group, which is an arbitrary grouping of conceptual counters, for monitoring purposes only. The range for this data type begins with zero (instead of one), to allow for a direct mapping between counter indexing schemes that start at zero (e.g. DSCP values in packets) and counter aggregation group values." SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647)

-- -- Textual Convention to define a -- DSMON Counter Aggregation Profile Index

DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION STATUS current

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DESCRIPTION
        "This TC describes a data type which identifies a DSMON
        counter aggregation profile, which is a set of counter
        aggregation group assignments for each of the 64 DSCP
        values, for a particular statistical collection."
SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647)

-- *********************************************************** -- * * -- * D S M O N C A P A B I L I T I E S * -- * * -- ***********************************************************

dsmonCapabilities OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX BITS { dsmonCounterAggControl(0), dsmonStats(1), dsmonStatsOvfl(2), dsmonStatsHC(3), dsmonPdist(4), dsmonPdistOvfl(5), dsmonPdistHC(6), dsmonHost(7), dsmonHostOvfl(8), dsmonHostHC(9), dsmonCaps(10), dsmonMatrix(11), dsmonMatrixOvfl(12), dsmonMatrixHC(13) } MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This object provides an indication of the DSMON groups supported by the agent. If a bit is set, then the agent implements all of the objects in the DSMON object group, where bit 'n' represents the MIB group identified by the OBJECT IDENTIFIER value { dsmonGroups n+1 }." ::= { dsmonCapsObjects 1 }

-- *********************************************************** -- * * -- * A G G R E G A T I O N C O N T R O L G R O U P S * -- * * -- ***********************************************************

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dsmonMaxAggGroups OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (2..64) MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum number of counter aggregation groups that this agent can support. The agent will allow this number of distinct groups to be configured in the dsmonAggProfileTable, numbered from '0' to 'dsmonMaxAggGroups - 1', for each counter aggregation profile entry supported by the agent.

        The agent MUST NOT lower this value during system operation,
        and SHOULD set this object to an appropriate value during
        system initialization."
::= { dsmonAggObjects 1 }

dsmonAggControlLocked OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX TruthValue MAX-ACCESS read-write STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Controls the setup of counter aggregation groups for this agent.

        If this object contains the value 'true', then write access
        to the objects in the dsmonAggControlTable (except the
        dsmonAggControlOwner object), dsmonAggProfileTable, and
        dsmonAggGroupTable is not permitted, and data collection is
        possible.  This object only controls write access to these
        MIB objects.  The DSMON data collection control tables
        (e.g., dsmonHostCtlTable) can be configured at any time,
        regardless of the value of this object.

        If this object contains the value 'false', write access to
        the objects in the dsmonAggControlTable,
        dsmonAggProfileTable, and dsmonAggGroupTable is permitted,
        and data collection is not possible.  In addition, all
        objects in all DSMON data tables (e.g., dsmonStatsTable)
        shall be deleted.

        An agent is not required to process SNMP Set Requests for
        this object in conjunction with other objects from this MIB.
        This is intended to simplify the processing of Set Requests
        for tables such as the dsmonAggProfileTable, by eliminating
        the possibility that a single Set PDU will contain multiple
        varbinds which are in conflict, such as a PDU which both
        modifies the dsmonAggProfileTable and locks the

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        dsmonAggProfileTable at the same time.

        Note that the agent is not required to validate the entire
        counter aggregation configuration when an attempt is made to
        transition an instance of this object from 'true' to
        'false'.  That validation is done if and when a DSMON data
        collection is activated.

        An agent is required to reactivate any suspended data
        collections when this object transitions to 'true', Each
        active data control entry (e.g., dsmonStatsControlEntry),
        will be validated with respect to the new counter
        aggregation configuration.  If the counter aggregation
        profile referenced in the data collection is valid, then
        that collection will be restarted.  Otherwise, the RowStatus
        object (e.g., dsmonStatsControlStatus) will be set to
        'notReady' for that collection control entry."
::= { dsmonAggObjects 2 }

dsmonAggControlChanges OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This object counts the number of times the value of the dsmonAggControlLocked object has changed. A management station can use this object to detect if counters in the DSMON data tables (e.g., dsmonStatsEntry) have been deleted and recreated between polls.

        This object shall be incremented by one each time the
        dsmonAggControlLocked object changes from 'false' to 'true',
        or from 'true' to 'false'."
::= { dsmonAggObjects 3 }

dsmonAggControlLastChangeTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX TimeStamp MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This object identifies the value of sysUpTime at the moment the dsmonAggControlLocked object was last modified. A management station can use this object to detect if counters in the DSMON data tables (e.g., dsmonStatsEntry) have been deleted and recreated between polls.

        This object shall be updated with the current value of
        sysUpTime, if the dsmonAggControlLocked object changes from

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        'false' to 'true', or from 'true' to 'false'.

        Upon system initialization, this object shall contain the
        value zero."
::= { dsmonAggObjects 4 }

-- -- Counter Aggregation Control Table

dsmonAggControlTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonAggControlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This table provides an overall description and control point for all dsmonAggProfileEntries with the same dsmonAggControlIndex value.

        A management application SHOULD create a counter aggregation
        profile by first creating and activating an entry in this
        table.  This will cause the agent to create a set of 64
        dsmonAggProfileEntries on behalf of this control entry.  An
        application can then set the individual counter aggregation
        group assignments for each of the 64 DSCP values,

        This table MUST NOT be modified if the dsmonAggControlLocked
        object is equal to 'true'.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        entries which may be created in this table, and
        (independently) the number of counter aggregation profiles
        which may be applied to a particular data source.  In this
        case, the agent SHOULD return an error-status of
        'resourceUnavailable(13)', as per [section 4.2.5](#section-4.2.5) of the
        'Protocol Operations for SNMPv2' specification [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")].

        The agent SHOULD support non-volatile configuration of this
        table, and upon system initialization, the table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.  Otherwise, each
        potential counter aggregation group description string
        SHOULD contain the empty string."
::= { dsmonAggObjects 5 }

dsmonAggControlEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonAggControlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible

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STATUS      current
DESCRIPTION
        "A conceptual row in the dsmonAggControlTable."
INDEX { dsmonAggControlIndex }
::= { dsmonAggControlTable 1 }

DsmonAggControlEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonAggControlIndex DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex, dsmonAggControlDescr SnmpAdminString, dsmonAggControlOwner OwnerString, dsmonAggControlStatus RowStatus }

dsmonAggControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An arbitrary integer index value used to identify the counter aggregation profile specified by this control entry." ::= { dsmonAggControlEntry 1 }

dsmonAggControlDescr OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SnmpAdminString (SIZE (0..64)) MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An administratively assigned description of the counter aggregation profile identified by this entry.

        Upon first creation of an instance of this object, the agent
        SHOULD set this object to the empty string.  If the agent
        supports non-volatile storage, then this object SHOULD be
        re-initialized with its stored value after a system reboot.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonAggControlStatus object is equal to 'active', or the
        dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'true'."
::= { dsmonAggControlEntry 2 }

dsmonAggControlOwner OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OwnerString MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore using the resources assigned to it."

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::= { dsmonAggControlEntry 3 }

dsmonAggControlStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The status of this row.

        An entry MUST NOT exist in the active state unless all
        objects in the entry have an appropriate value.

        Upon setting this object to active(1), the agent will create
        a complete set of 64 associated entries in the
        dsmonAggProfileTable.

        If this object is not equal to active(1), all associated
        entries in the dsmonAggProfileTable shall be deleted.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the
        dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'true'."
::= { dsmonAggControlEntry 4 }

-- -- Counter Aggregation Profile Table

dsmonAggProfileTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonAggProfileEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Controls the setup of counter aggregation profiles for this agent. For each such profile, every DSCP value MUST be configured into exactly one counter aggregation group.

        This table MUST NOT be modified if the dsmonAggControlLocked
        object is equal to 'true'.

        The agent will create a set of 64 entries in this table
        (with the same dsmonAggControlIndex value) when the
        associated dsmonAggControlEntry is activated.

        If the agent supports non-volatile configuration of this
        table, then upon system initialization, this table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values."
::= { dsmonAggObjects 6 }

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dsmonAggProfileEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonAggProfileEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonAggProfileTable. The dsmonAggControlIndex value in the index identifies the dsmonAggControlEntry associated with each entry in this table." INDEX { dsmonAggControlIndex, dsmonAggProfileDSCP } ::= { dsmonAggProfileTable 1 }

DsmonAggProfileEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonAggProfileDSCP Dscp, dsmonAggGroupIndex DsmonCounterAggGroupIndex }

dsmonAggProfileDSCP OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Dscp MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The specific DSCP value for the DSCP counter which is configured in a counter aggregation group by this entry." ::= { dsmonAggProfileEntry 1 }

dsmonAggGroupIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonCounterAggGroupIndex MAX-ACCESS read-write STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The counter aggregation group which contains this DSCP value. Upon creation of a new sub-tree (set of 64 entries with the same dsmonAggControlIndex value) in this table, the agent SHOULD initialize all related instances of this object to the value zero.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the
        dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'true'."
DEFVAL { 0 }
::= { dsmonAggProfileEntry 2 }

-- -- Counter Aggregation Group Table

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dsmonAggGroupTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonAggGroupEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This table provides a description of each counter aggregation group configured on this system. Note that the semantics of a particular counter aggregation group are only relevant within the scope of a particular counter aggregation profile.

        This table MUST NOT be modified if the dsmonAggControlLocked
        object is equal to 'true'.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        entries which may be created in this table, and
        (independently) the number of counter aggregation profiles
        which may be applied to a particular data source.  In this
        case, the agent SHOULD return an error-status of
        'resourceUnavailable(13)', as per [section 4.2.5](#section-4.2.5) of the
        'Protocol Operations for SNMPv2' specification [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")].

        If the agent supports non-volatile configuration of this
        table, then upon system initialization, this table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.  Otherwise, each
        potential counter aggregation group description string
        SHOULD contain the empty string.

        An agent SHOULD allow entries to be created or modified in
        this table, even if the specified dsmonAggControlIndex value
        does not identify a valid dsmonAggControlEntry or a complete
        set of valid dsmonAggProfileEntries, to reduce row creation
        order dependencies."
::= { dsmonAggObjects 7 }

dsmonAggGroupEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonAggGroupEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonAggGroupTable. The dsmonAggGroupIndex value in the INDEX identifies the counter aggregation group associated with each entry.

        The dsmonAggControlIndex in the index identifies the counter
        aggregation profile associated with each entry, identified
        by the dsmonAggControlEntry and dsmonAggProfileEntries with
        the same index value.

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        The agent SHOULD support non-volatile configuration of this
        table, and upon system initialization, the table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.

        The dsmonAggGroupIndex in the index identifies the counter
        aggregation group associated with each entry.  This object
        SHOULD be indexed from zero to 'N', where 'N' is less than
        the value of the dsmonMaxAggGroups for this agent."

INDEX { dsmonAggControlIndex, dsmonAggGroupIndex }
::= { dsmonAggGroupTable 1 }

DsmonAggGroupEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonAggGroupDescr SnmpAdminString, dsmonAggGroupStatus RowStatus }

dsmonAggGroupDescr OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SnmpAdminString (SIZE (0..64)) MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An administratively assigned description of the counter aggregation group identified by this entry.

        Upon first creation of an instance of this object, the agent
        SHOULD set this object to the empty string.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonAggGroupStatus object is equal to 'active', or the
        dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'true'."
::= { dsmonAggGroupEntry 1 }

dsmonAggGroupStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The status of this row.

        An entry MUST NOT exist in the active state unless all
        objects in the entry have an appropriate value.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the
        dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'true'."
::= { dsmonAggGroupEntry 2 }

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-- ************************************************************* -- * * -- * P E R - D A T A S O U R C E C O L L E C T I O N S * -- * * -- *************************************************************

-- -- Per-DataSource Statistics Control Table

dsmonStatsControlTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonStatsControlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Controls the setup of per data source per counter aggregation group distribution statistics.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        entries which may be created in this table.  In this case,
        the agent SHOULD return an error-status of
        'resourceUnavailable(13)', as per [section 4.2.5](#section-4.2.5) of the
        'Protocol Operations for SNMPv2' specification [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")]."
::= { dsmonStatsObjects 1 }

dsmonStatsControlEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonStatsControlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonStatsControlTable.

        Entries are created and deleted from this table by
        management action only, using the dsmonStatsControlStatus
        RowStatus object.

        The agent SHOULD support non-volatile configuration of this
        table, and upon system initialization, the table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.

        Activation of a control row in this table will cause an
        associated dsmonStatsTable to be created and maintained by
        the agent."
INDEX { dsmonStatsControlIndex }
::= { dsmonStatsControlTable 1 }

DsmonStatsControlEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonStatsControlIndex Integer32,

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dsmonStatsControlDataSource           DataSource,
dsmonStatsControlAggProfile           DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex,
dsmonStatsControlDroppedFrames        Counter32,
dsmonStatsControlCreateTime           LastCreateTime,
dsmonStatsControlOwner                OwnerString,
dsmonStatsControlStatus               RowStatus

}

dsmonStatsControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An arbitrary and unique index for this dsmonStatsControlEntry." ::= { dsmonStatsControlEntry 1 }

dsmonStatsControlDataSource OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DataSource MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The data source of this per protocol per counter aggregation group distribution.

        Note that only packets that contain a network protocol
        encapsulation which contains a DS field [[RFC2474](./rfc2474 ""Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers"")] will be
        counted in this table.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonStatsControlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonStatsControlEntry 2 }

dsmonStatsControlAggProfile OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonAggControlIndex value identifying the counter aggregation profile which should be used on behalf of this dsmonStatsControlEntry.

        The associated dsmonAggControlEntry and
        dsmonAggProfileEntries, identified by the same
        dsmonAggControlIndex index value, MUST be active in order
        for this entry to remain active.  It is possible for the
        counter aggregation configuration to change from a valid to
        invalid state for this dsmonStats collection.  In this case,

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        the associated dsmonStatsControlStatus object will be
        changed to the 'notReady' state, and data collection will
        not occur on behalf of this control entry.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        counter aggregation profiles which may be applied to a
        particular data source.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonStatsControlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonStatsControlEntry 3 }

dsmonStatsControlDroppedFrames OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "frames" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The total number of frames which were received by the probe and therefore not accounted for in the *StatsDropEvents, but for which the probe chose not to count for this entry for whatever reason. Most often, this event occurs when the probe is out of some resources and decides to shed load from this collection.

        This count does not include packets that were not counted
        because they had MAC-layer errors.

        Note that, unlike the dropEvents counter, this number is the
        exact number of frames dropped."
::= { dsmonStatsControlEntry 4 }

dsmonStatsControlCreateTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX LastCreateTime MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this control entry was last activated. This can be used by the management station to detect if the table has been deleted and recreated between polls." ::= { dsmonStatsControlEntry 5 }

dsmonStatsControlOwner OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OwnerString MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION

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        "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore
        using the resources assigned to it."
::= { dsmonStatsControlEntry 6 }

dsmonStatsControlStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The status of this row.

        An entry MUST NOT exist in the active state unless all
        objects in the entry have an appropriate value.

        If this object is not equal to active(1), all associated
        entries in the dsmonStatsTable shall be deleted."
::= { dsmonStatsControlEntry 7 }

-- -- Per-DataSource Statistics Table

dsmonStatsTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonStatsEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A list of information on counter aggregation group usage for each monitored data source.

        The following table defines per counter aggregation group
        statistics for full and/or half-duplex links as well as high
        capacity links.

        For half-duplex links, or full-duplex-capable links
        operating in half-duplex mode, the dsmonStatsIn* objects
        shall be used and the dsmonStatsOut* objects will not
        increment.

        For full-duplex links, the dsmonStatsOut* objects will be
        present.  Whenever possible, the probe SHOULD count packets
        moving away from the closest terminating equipment as output
        packets.  Failing that, the probe SHOULD count packets
        moving away from the DTE as output packets.

        If the dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'false',
        then all entries in this table will be deleted and the agent
        will not process packets on behalf of any

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        dsmonStatsControlEntry."
::= { dsmonStatsObjects 2 }

dsmonStatsEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonStatsEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A list of information on Differentiated Services DSCP usage, containing inbound and outbound packet and octet counters for each counter aggregation group configured for collection.

        The dsmonStatsControlIndex value in the index identifies the
        dsmonStatsControlEntry on whose behalf this entry was
        created.

        The dsmonAggGroupIndex value in the index is determined by
        examining the DSCP value in each monitored packet, and the
        dsmonAggProfileTable entry for that DSCP value.

        Note that only packets that contain a network protocol
        encapsulation which contains a DS field [[RFC2474](./rfc2474 ""Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers"")] will be
        counted in this table.

        An example of the indexing of this entry is
        dsmonStatsOutPkts.1.16"
 INDEX { dsmonStatsControlIndex, dsmonAggGroupIndex }
::= { dsmonStatsTable 1 }

DsmonStatsEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonStatsInPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonStatsInOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonStatsInOvflPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonStatsInOvflOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonStatsInHCPkts ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonStatsInHCOctets ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonStatsOutPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonStatsOutOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonStatsOutOvflPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonStatsOutOvflOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonStatsOutHCPkts ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonStatsOutHCOctets ZeroBasedCounter64 }

dsmonStatsInPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "packets"

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MAX-ACCESS  read-only
STATUS      current
DESCRIPTION
        "The number of packets using one of the DSCP values in the
        indicated counter aggregation group, received on a half-
        duplex link or on the inbound connection of a full-duplex
        link."
::= { dsmonStatsEntry 1 }

dsmonStatsInOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets in packets, using one of the DSCP values in the indicated counter aggregation group, received on a half-duplex link or on the inbound connection of a full-duplex link." ::= { dsmonStatsEntry 2 }

dsmonStatsInOvflPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonStatsInPkts counter has overflowed. Note that this object will only be instantiated if the associated dsmonStatsInHCPkts object is also instantiated for a particular dataSource." ::= { dsmonStatsEntry 3 }

dsmonStatsInOvflOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonStatsInOctets counter has overflowed. Note that this object will only be instantiated if the associated dsmonStatsInHCOctets object is also instantiated for a particular dataSource." ::= { dsmonStatsEntry 4 }

dsmonStatsInHCPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current

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DESCRIPTION
        "The 64-bit version of the dsmonStatsInPkts object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonStatsEntry 5 }

dsmonStatsInHCOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonStatsInOctets object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonStatsEntry 6 }

dsmonStatsOutPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of packets using one of the DSCP values in the indicated counter aggregation group, received on a full- duplex link in the direction of the network." ::= { dsmonStatsEntry 7 }

dsmonStatsOutOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets in packets, using one of the DSCP values in the indicated counter aggregation group, received on a full-duplex link in the direction of the network." ::= { dsmonStatsEntry 8 }

dsmonStatsOutOvflPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION

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        "The number of times the associated dsmonStatsOutPkts
        counter has overflowed.  Note that this object will only be
        instantiated if the associated dsmonStatsOutHCPkts object is
        also instantiated for a particular dataSource."
::= { dsmonStatsEntry 9 }

dsmonStatsOutOvflOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonStatsOutOctets counter has overflowed. Note that this object will only be instantiated if the associated dsmonStatsOutHCOctets object is also instantiated for a particular dataSource." ::= { dsmonStatsEntry 10 }

dsmonStatsOutHCPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonStatsOutPkts object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonStatsEntry 11 }

dsmonStatsOutHCOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonStatsOutOctets object. Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular dataSource." ::= { dsmonStatsEntry 12 }

-- *********************************************************** -- * * -- * P E R - P R O T O C O L C O L L E C T I O N S * -- * * -- ***********************************************************

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-- -- DSCP Per-Protocol Statistics Control Table

dsmonPdistCtlTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonPdistCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Controls the setup of per application per counter aggregation group distribution statistics.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        entries which may be created in this table.  In this case,
        the agent SHOULD return an error-status of
        'resourceUnavailable(13)', as per [section 4.2.5](#section-4.2.5) of the
        'Protocol Operations for SNMPv2' specification [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")]."
::= { dsmonPdistObjects 1 }

dsmonPdistCtlEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonPdistCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonPdistCtlTable.

        Entries are created and deleted from this table by
        management action only, using the dsmonPdistCtlStatus
        RowStatus object.

        The agent SHOULD support non-volatile configuration of this
        table, and upon system initialization, the table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.

        Activation of a control row in this table will cause an
        associated dsmonPdistStatsTable to be created and maintained
        by the agent."
INDEX { dsmonPdistCtlIndex }
::= { dsmonPdistCtlTable 1 }

DsmonPdistCtlEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonPdistCtlIndex Integer32, dsmonPdistCtlDataSource DataSource, dsmonPdistCtlAggProfile DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex, dsmonPdistCtlMaxDesiredEntries Integer32, dsmonPdistCtlDroppedFrames Counter32, dsmonPdistCtlInserts Counter32, dsmonPdistCtlDeletes Counter32,

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dsmonPdistCtlCreateTime           LastCreateTime,
dsmonPdistCtlOwner                OwnerString,
dsmonPdistCtlStatus               RowStatus

}

dsmonPdistCtlIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An arbitrary and unique index for this dsmonPdistCtlEntry." ::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 1 }

dsmonPdistCtlDataSource OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DataSource MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The source of data for the this per protocol counter aggregation group distribution.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonPdistCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 2 }

dsmonPdistCtlAggProfile OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonAggControlIndex value identifying the counter aggregation profile which should be used on behalf of this dsmonPdistCtlEntry.

        The associated dsmonAggControlEntry and
        dsmonAggProfileEntries, identified by the same
        dsmonAggControlIndex index value, MUST be active in order
        for this entry to remain active.  It is possible for the
        counter aggregation configuration to change from a valid to
        invalid state for this dsmonPdist collection.  In this case,
        the associated dsmonPdistCtlStatus object will be changed to
        the 'notReady' state, and data collection will not occur on
        behalf of this control entry.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        counter aggregation profiles which may be applied to a
        particular data source.

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        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonPdistCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 3 }

dsmonPdistCtlMaxDesiredEntries OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (-1 | 1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum number of entries that are desired in the dsmonPdistStatsTable on behalf of this control entry. The probe will not create more than this number of associated entries in the table, but MAY choose to create fewer entries in this table for any reason including the lack of resources.

        If this value is set to -1, the probe MAY create any number
        of entries in this table.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonPdistCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 4 }

dsmonPdistCtlDroppedFrames OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "frames" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The total number of frames which were received by the probe and therefore not accounted for in the *StatsDropEvents, but for which the probe chose not to count for this entry for whatever reason. Most often, this event occurs when the probe is out of some resources and decides to shed load from this collection.

        This count does not include packets that were not counted
        because they had MAC-layer errors.

        Note that, unlike the dropEvents counter, this number is the
        exact number of frames dropped."
::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 5 }

dsmonPdistCtlInserts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current

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DESCRIPTION
        "The number of times a dsmonPdist entry has been inserted
        into the dsmonPdistTable.  If an entry is inserted, then
        deleted, and then inserted, this counter will be incremented
        by 2.

        To allow for efficient implementation strategies, agents MAY
        delay updating this object for short periods of time.  For
        example, an implementation strategy may allow internal data
        structures to differ from those visible via SNMP for short
        periods of time.  This counter may reflect the internal data
        structures for those short periods of time.

        Note that the table size can be determined by subtracting
        dsmonPdistCtlDeletes from dsmonPdistCtlInserts."
::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 6 }

dsmonPdistCtlDeletes OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of times a dsmonPdist entry has been deleted from the dsmonPdist table (for any reason). If an entry is deleted, then inserted, and then deleted, this counter will be incremented by 2.

        To allow for efficient implementation strategies, agents MAY
        delay updating this object for short periods of time.  For
        example, an implementation strategy may allow internal data
        structures to differ from those visible via SNMP for short
        periods of time.  This counter may reflect the internal data
        structures for those short periods of time.

        Note that the table size can be determined by subtracting
        dsmonPdistCtlDeletes from dsmonPdistCtlInserts."
::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 7 }

dsmonPdistCtlCreateTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX LastCreateTime MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this control entry was last activated. This can be used by the management station to detect if the table has been deleted and recreated between polls."

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::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 8 }

dsmonPdistCtlOwner OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OwnerString MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore using the resources assigned to it." ::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 9 }

dsmonPdistCtlStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The status of this row.

        An entry MUST NOT exist in the active state unless all
        objects in the entry have an appropriate value.

        If this object is not equal to active(1), all associated
        entries in the dsmonPdistStatsTable shall be deleted."
::= { dsmonPdistCtlEntry 10 }

-- -- Per-Protocol Statistics Table

dsmonPdistStatsTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonPdistStatsEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A list of information on a per protocol per counter aggregation group usage.

        If the dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'false',
        then all entries in this table will be deleted and the agent
        will not process packets on behalf of any
        dsmonPdistCtlEntry."
::= { dsmonPdistObjects 2 }

dsmonPdistStatsEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonPdistStatsEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION

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        "A list of information on Differentiated Services DSCP
        usage, containing packet and octet counters for each counter
        aggregation group configured for collection, and each
        protocol (as identified by the protocolDirLocalIndex for the
        protocol) identified in each monitored packet.

        The dsmonPdistCtlIndex value in the index identifies the
        dsmonPdistCtlEntry on whose behalf this entry was created.

        Note that only packets that contain a network protocol
        encapsulation which contains a DS field [[RFC2474](./rfc2474 ""Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers"")] will be
        counted in this table.

        The dsmonAggGroupIndex value in the index is determined by
        examining the DSCP value in each monitored packet, and the
        dsmonAggProfileTable entry for that value.

        The protocolDirLocalIndex in the index identifies the
        protocolDirEntry for the protocol encapsulation of each
        monitored packet.  The agent will include only application
        layer protocols in the associated dsmonPdistStatsTable.  Any
        'terminal' protocol is considered to be an application
        protocol.

        An example of the indexing of this entry is
        dsmonPdistStatsPkts.9.29943.0.42."
 INDEX { dsmonPdistCtlIndex,
         dsmonPdistTimeMark,
         dsmonAggGroupIndex,
         protocolDirLocalIndex }
::= { dsmonPdistStatsTable 1 }

DsmonPdistStatsEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonPdistTimeMark TimeFilter, dsmonPdistStatsPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonPdistStatsOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonPdistStatsOvflPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonPdistStatsOvflOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonPdistStatsHCPkts ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonPdistStatsHCOctets ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonPdistStatsCreateTime LastCreateTime }

dsmonPdistTimeMark OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX TimeFilter MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION

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        "The Time Filter index for this table.  This object may be
        used by a management station to retrieve only rows which
        have been created or modified since a particular time.  Note
        that the current value for a row are always returned and the
        TimeFilter is not a historical data archiving mechanism.
        Refer to [RFC 2021](./rfc2021) [[RFC2021](./rfc2021 ""Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2"")] for a detailed description of
        TimeFilter operation."
::= { dsmonPdistStatsEntry 1 }

dsmonPdistStatsPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of packets, using one of the DSCP values in the indicated counter aggregation group, for the protocol identified by the associated protocolDirLocalIndex value." ::= { dsmonPdistStatsEntry 2 }

dsmonPdistStatsOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets in packets, using one of the DSCP values in the indicated counter aggregation group, for the protocol identified by the associated protocolDirLocalIndex value.

        Note that this object doesn't count just those octets in the
        particular protocol frames, but includes the entire packet
        that contained the protocol."
::= { dsmonPdistStatsEntry 3 }

dsmonPdistStatsOvflPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonPdistStatsPkts counter has overflowed. Note that this object will only be instantiated if the associated dsmonPdistStatsHCPkts object is also instantiated for a particular dataSource." ::= { dsmonPdistStatsEntry 4 }

dsmonPdistStatsOvflOctets OBJECT-TYPE

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SYNTAX      ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS  read-only
STATUS      deprecated
DESCRIPTION
        "The number of times the associated dsmonPdistStatsOctets
        counter has overflowed.  Note that this object will only be
        instantiated if the associated dsmonPdistStatsHCOctets
        object is also instantiated for a particular dataSource."
::= { dsmonPdistStatsEntry 5 }

dsmonPdistStatsHCPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonPdistStatsPkts object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonPdistStatsEntry 6 }

dsmonPdistStatsHCOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonPdistStatsOctets object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonPdistStatsEntry 7 }

dsmonPdistStatsCreateTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX LastCreateTime MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this dsmonPdistStats entry was last instantiated by the agent. This can be used by the management station to detect if the entry has been deleted and recreated between polls." ::= { dsmonPdistStatsEntry 8 }

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-- -- Per-Protocol Statistics TopN Control Table

dsmonPdistTopNCtlTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A set of parameters that control the creation of a report of the top N dsmonPdist entries according to a particular metric.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        entries which may be created in this table.  In this case,
        the agent SHOULD return an error-status of
        'resourceUnavailable(13)', as per [section 4.2.5](#section-4.2.5) of the
        'Protocol Operations for SNMPv2' specification [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")]."
::= { dsmonPdistObjects 3 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonPdistTopNCtlTable.

        Entries are created and deleted from this table by
        management action only, using the dsmonPdistTopNCtlStatus
        RowStatus object.

        The agent SHOULD support non-volatile configuration of this
        table, and upon system initialization, the table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.

        Activation of a control row in this table will cause an
        associated dsmonPdistTopNTable to be created and maintained
        by the agent."
INDEX { dsmonPdistTopNCtlIndex }
::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlTable 1 }

DsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonPdistTopNCtlIndex Integer32, dsmonPdistTopNCtlPdistIndex Integer32, dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase INTEGER, dsmonPdistTopNCtlTimeRemaining Integer32, dsmonPdistTopNCtlGeneratedReprts Counter32, dsmonPdistTopNCtlDuration Integer32,

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dsmonPdistTopNCtlRequestedSize    Integer32,
dsmonPdistTopNCtlGrantedSize      Integer32,
dsmonPdistTopNCtlStartTime        TimeStamp,
dsmonPdistTopNCtlOwner            OwnerString,
dsmonPdistTopNCtlStatus           RowStatus

}

dsmonPdistTopNCtlIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the dsmonPdistTopNCtlTable, with the same dsmonPdistTopNCtlIndex value as this object. Each entry in this table defines one Top N report prepared on behalf of the dsmonPdistStatsEntry collection with the same dsmonPdistCtlIndex as this object." ::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 1 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlPdistIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonPdistTable for which a top N report will be prepared on behalf of this entry. The dsmonPdistTable is identified by the value of the dsmonPdistCtlIndex for that table - that value is used here to identify the particular table.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonPdistTopNCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 2 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX INTEGER { dsmonPdistTopNPkts(1), dsmonPdistTopNOctets(2), dsmonPdistTopNHCPkts(3), dsmonPdistTopNHCOctets(4) } MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The variable for each dsmonPdist that the dsmonPdistTopNRate and dsmonPdistTopNHCRate variables are based upon. Each dsmonPdistTopN report generated on behalf of this control entry will be ranked in descending order,

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        based on the associated dsmonPdistStatsTable counter,
        identified by this object.

        The following table identifies the dsmonPdistTable counter
        associated with each enumeration:

        Enumeration              RateBase MIB Object
        -----------              -------------------
        dsmonPdistTopNPkts          dsmonPdistStatsPkts
        dsmonPdistTopNOctets        dsmonPdistStatsOctets
        dsmonPdistTopNHCPkts        dsmonPdistStatsHCPkts
        dsmonPdistTopNHCOctets      dsmonPdistStatsHCOctets

        Note that the dsmonPdistTopNHCPkts and
        dsmonPdistTopNHCOctets enumerations are only available if
        the agent supports High Capacity monitoring.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonPdistTopNCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 3 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlTimeRemaining OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "seconds" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of seconds left in the report currently being collected. When this object is modified by the management station, a new collection is started, possibly aborting a currently running report. The new value is used as the requested duration of this report, and is immediately loaded into the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlDuration object.

        When the report finishes, the probe will automatically start
        another collection with the same initial value of
        dsmonPdistTopNCtlTimeRemaining.  Thus the management station
        may simply read the resulting reports repeatedly, checking
        the startTime and duration each time to ensure that a report
        was not missed or that the report parameters were not
        changed.

        While the value of this object is non-zero, it decrements by
        one per second until it reaches zero.  At the time that this
        object decrements to zero, the report is made accessible in
        the dsmonPdistTopNTable, overwriting any report that may be
        there.

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        When this object is modified by the management station, any
        associated entries in the dsmonPdistTopNTable shall be
        deleted."
DEFVAL { 1800 }
::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 4 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlGeneratedReprts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "reports" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of reports that have been generated by this entry." ::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 5 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlDuration OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "seconds" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of seconds that this report has collected during the last sampling interval.

        When the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlTimeRemaining object is
        set, this object shall be set by the probe to the same value
        and shall not be modified until the next time the
        dsmonPdistTopNCtlTimeRemaining is set.

        This value shall be zero if no reports have been requested
        for this dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 6 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlRequestedSize OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum number of dsmonPdist entries requested for this report.

        When this object is created or modified, the probe SHOULD
        set dsmonPdistTopNCtlGrantedSize as closely to this object
        as is possible for the particular probe implementation and
        available resources."
DEFVAL { 150 }

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::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 7 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlGrantedSize OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum number of dsmonPdist entries in this report.

        When the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlRequestedSize object is
        created or modified, the probe SHOULD set this object as
        closely to the requested value as is possible for the
        particular implementation and available resources.  The
        probe MUST NOT lower this value except as a result of a
        set to the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlRequestedSize
        object.

        Protocol entries with the highest value of
        dsmonPdistTopNRate or dsmonPdistTopNHCRate (depending on the
        value of the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase object)
        shall be placed in this table in decreasing order of this
        rate until there is no more room or until there are no more
        dsmonPdist entries."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 8 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlStartTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX TimeStamp MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this top N report was last started. In other words, this is the time that the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlTimeRemaining object was modified to start the requested report or the time the report was last automatically (re)started.

        This object may be used by the management station to
        determine if a report was missed or not."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 9 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlOwner OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OwnerString MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore using the resources assigned to it."

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::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 10 }

dsmonPdistTopNCtlStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The status of this dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry.

        An entry MUST NOT exist in the active state unless all
        objects in the entry have an appropriate value.

        If this object is not equal to active(1), all associated
        entries in the dsmonPdistTopNTable shall be deleted by the
        agent."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry 11 }

-- -- dsmonPdist TopN Table

dsmonPdistTopNTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonPdistTopNEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A set of statistics for those protocol distribution entries that have counted the highest number of octets or packets.

        If the dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'false',
        then all entries in this table SHALL be deleted, and the
        agent will not process TopN reports on behalf of any
        dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry.

        When the dsmonAggControlLocked object is set to 'true', then
        particular reports SHOULD be restarted from the beginning,
        on behalf of all active rows in the dsmonPdistTopNCtlTable.

        Note that dsmonPdist entries which did not increment at all
        during the report interval SHOULD NOT be included in
        dsmonPdistTopN reports."
::= { dsmonPdistObjects 4 }

dsmonPdistTopNEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonPdistTopNEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION

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        "A conceptual row in the dsmonPdistTopNTable.

        The dsmonPdistTopNCtlIndex value in the index identifies the
        dsmonPdistTopNCtlEntry on whose behalf this entry was
        created.  Entries in this table are ordered from 1 to 'N',
        where lower numbers represent higher values of the rate base
        object, over the report interval."
INDEX { dsmonPdistTopNCtlIndex, dsmonPdistTopNIndex }
::= { dsmonPdistTopNTable 1 }

DsmonPdistTopNEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonPdistTopNIndex Integer32, dsmonPdistTopNPDLocalIndex Integer32, dsmonPdistTopNAggGroup DsmonCounterAggGroupIndex, dsmonPdistTopNRate Gauge32, dsmonPdistTopNRateOvfl Gauge32, dsmonPdistTopNHCRate CounterBasedGauge64 }

dsmonPdistTopNIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the dsmonPdistTopNTable among those in the same report. This index is between 1 and N, where N is the number of entries in this report. Note that 'N' may change over time, and may also be less than the dsmonPdistTopNCtlGrantedSize value associated with this entry." ::= { dsmonPdistTopNEntry 1 }

dsmonPdistTopNPDLocalIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The protocolDirLocalIndex value which identifies the protocol associated with this entry.

        If the protocolDirEntry associated with the
        protocolDirLocalIndex with the same value as this object is
        de-activated or deleted, then the agent MUST delete this
        dsmonPdistTopN entry."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNEntry 2 }

dsmonPdistTopNAggGroup OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonCounterAggGroupIndex

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MAX-ACCESS  read-only
STATUS      current
DESCRIPTION
        "The DSCP counter aggregation group index value associated
        with protocol identified in this entry.  This object
        identifies the dsmonAggGroupEntry with the same
        dsmonAggControlIndex value as the associated
        dsmonPdistCtlAggProfile object and the same
        dsmonAggGroupIndex value as this object."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNEntry 3 }

dsmonPdistTopNRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The amount of change in the selected variable during this sampling interval. The selected variable is this protocol's instance of the object selected by dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase.

        If the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase is equal to
        'dsmonPdistTopNHCPkts' or 'dsmonPdistTopNHCOctets', then
        this object will contain the the least significant 32 bits
        of the associated dsmonPdistTopNHCRate object."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNEntry 4 }

dsmonPdistTopNRateOvfl OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The most significant 32 bits of the associated dsmonPdistTopNHCRate object.

        If the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase is equal to
        'dsmonPdistTopNHCPkts' or 'dsmonPdistTopNHCOctets', then
        this object will contain the upper 32 bits of the associated
        dsmonPdistTopNHCRate object.

        If the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase is equal to
        'dsmonPdistTopNPkts' or 'dsmonPdistTopNOctets', then this
        object will contain the value zero.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNEntry 5 }

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dsmonPdistTopNHCRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX CounterBasedGauge64 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The amount of change in the selected variable during this sampling interval. The selected variable is this protocol's instance of the object selected by dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase.

        If the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase is equal to
        'dsmonPdistTopNPkts' or 'dsmonPdistTopNOctets', then this
        object will contain the value zero, and the associated
        dsmonPdistTopNRate object will contain the change in the
        selected variable during the sampling interval.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonPdistTopNEntry 6 }

-- *********************************************************** -- * * -- * P E R - H O S T C O L L E C T I O N S * -- * * -- ***********************************************************

-- -- NL Host Statistics Control Table

dsmonHostCtlTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonHostCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Controls setup of per counter aggregation group, per network layer host distribution statistics.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        entries which may be created in this table.  In this case,
        the agent SHOULD return an error-status of
        'resourceUnavailable(13)', as per [section 4.2.5](#section-4.2.5) of the
        'Protocol Operations for SNMPv2' specification [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")]."
::= { dsmonHostObjects 1 }

dsmonHostCtlEntry OBJECT-TYPE

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SYNTAX      DsmonHostCtlEntry
MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
STATUS      current
DESCRIPTION
        "A conceptual row in the dsmonHostCtlTable.

        Entries are created and deleted from this table by
        management action only, using the dsmonHostCtlStatus
        RowStatus object.

        The agent SHOULD support non-volatile configuration of this
        table, and upon system initialization, the table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.

        Activation of a control row in this table will cause an
        associated dsmonHostTable to be created and maintained by
        the agent."
INDEX { dsmonHostCtlIndex }
::= { dsmonHostCtlTable 1 }

DsmonHostCtlEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonHostCtlIndex Integer32, dsmonHostCtlDataSource DataSource, dsmonHostCtlAggProfile DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex, dsmonHostCtlMaxDesiredEntries Integer32, dsmonHostCtlIPv4PrefixLen Integer32, dsmonHostCtlIPv6PrefixLen Integer32, dsmonHostCtlDroppedFrames Counter32, dsmonHostCtlInserts Counter32, dsmonHostCtlDeletes Counter32, dsmonHostCtlCreateTime LastCreateTime, dsmonHostCtlOwner OwnerString, dsmonHostCtlStatus RowStatus }

dsmonHostCtlIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An arbitrary and unique index for this dsmonHostCtlEntry." ::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 1 }

dsmonHostCtlDataSource OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DataSource MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION

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        "The source of data for the associated dsmonHostTable.

        Note that only packets that contain a network protocol
        encapsulation which contains a DS field [[RFC2474](./rfc2474 ""Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers"")] will be
        counted in this table.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonHostCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 2 }

dsmonHostCtlAggProfile OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonAggControlIndex value identifying the counter aggregation profile which should be used on behalf of this dsmonHostCtlEntry.

        The associated dsmonAggControlEntry and
        dsmonAggProfileEntries, identified by the same
        dsmonAggControlIndex index value, MUST be active in order
        for this entry to remain active.  It is possible for the
        counter aggregation configuration to change from a valid to
        invalid state for this dsmonHost collection.  In this case,
        the associated dsmonHostCtlStatus object will be changed to
        the 'notReady' state, and data collection will not occur on
        behalf of this control entry.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        counter aggregation profiles which may be applied to a
        particular data source.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonHostCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 3 }

dsmonHostCtlMaxDesiredEntries OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (-1 | 1..2147483647) UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum number of entries that are desired in the dsmonHostTable on behalf of this control entry. The probe will not create more than this number of associated entries in the table, but MAY choose to create fewer entries in this table for any reason including the lack of resources.

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        If this value is set to -1, the probe MAY create any number
        of entries in this table.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonHostCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 4 }

dsmonHostCtlIPv4PrefixLen OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (8..32) UNITS "bits" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of 'leftmost' contiguous bits in the host address field for encapsulations of IPv4, that should be maintained in this collection. This object controls how the dsmonHostAddress object is derived for packets which contain an encapsulation of IPv4.

        If this object has a value less than 32, then 'm' rightmost
        bits, where 'm' is equal to '32 -
        dsmonHostCtlIPv4PrefixLen', will be cleared to zero for
        counting purposes only.  The 'leftmost' bit is the most
        significant bit of the first network-byte-order octet of the
        address.

        If this object is equal to 32, then no bits are cleared in
        each dsmonHostAddress field.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonHostCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
DEFVAL { 32 }
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 5 }

dsmonHostCtlIPv6PrefixLen OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (8..128) UNITS "bits" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of 'leftmost' contiguous bits in the host address field for encapsulations of IPv6, that should be maintained in this collection. This object controls how the dsmonHostAddress object is derived for packets which contain an encapsulation of IPv6.

        If this object has a value less than 128, then 'm' rightmost
        bits, where 'm' is equal to '128 -

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        dsmonHostCtlIPv6PrefixLen', will be cleared to zero for
        counting purposes only.  The 'leftmost' bit is the most
        significant bit of the first network-byte-order octet of the
        address.

        If this object is equal to 128, then no bits are cleared in
        each dsmonHostAddress field.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonHostCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
DEFVAL { 128 }
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 6 }

dsmonHostCtlDroppedFrames OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "frames" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The total number of frames which were received by the probe and therefore not accounted for in the *StatsDropEvents, but for which the probe chose not to count for the associated dsmonHost entries for whatever reason. Most often, this event occurs when the probe is out of some resources and decides to shed load from this collection.

        This count does not include packets that were not counted
        because they had MAC-layer errors.

        Note that if the dsmonHostTable is inactive because no
        appropriate protocols are enabled in the protocol directory,
        this value SHOULD be 0.

        Note that, unlike the dropEvents counter, this number is the
        exact number of frames dropped."
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 7 }

dsmonHostCtlInserts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of times a dsmonHost entry has been inserted into the dsmonHost table. If an entry is inserted, then deleted, and then inserted, this counter will be incremented by 2.

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        To allow for efficient implementation strategies, agents MAY
        delay updating this object for short periods of time.  For
        example, an implementation strategy may allow internal data
        structures to differ from those visible via SNMP for short
        periods of time.  This counter may reflect the internal data
        structures for those short periods of time.

        Note that the table size can be determined by subtracting
        dsmonHostCtlDeletes from dsmonHostCtlInserts."
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 8 }

dsmonHostCtlDeletes OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of times a dsmonHost entry has been deleted from the dsmonHost table (for any reason). If an entry is deleted, then inserted, and then deleted, this counter will be incremented by 2.

        To allow for efficient implementation strategies, agents MAY
        delay updating this object for short periods of time.  For
        example, an implementation strategy may allow internal data
        structures to differ from those visible via SNMP for short
        periods of time.  This counter may reflect the internal data
        structures for those short periods of time.

        Note that the table size can be determined by subtracting
        dsmonHostCtlDeletes from dsmonHostCtlInserts."
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 9 }

dsmonHostCtlCreateTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX LastCreateTime MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this control entry was last activated. This can be used by the management station to detect if the table has been deleted and recreated between polls." ::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 10 }

dsmonHostCtlOwner OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OwnerString MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current

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DESCRIPTION
        "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore
        using the resources assigned to it."
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 11 }

dsmonHostCtlStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The status of this dsmonHostCtlEntry.

        An entry MUST NOT exist in the active state unless all
        objects in the entry have an appropriate value.

        If this object is not equal to active(1), all associated
        entries in the dsmonHostTable shall be deleted."
::= { dsmonHostCtlEntry 12 }

-- -- NL Host Statistics Table

dsmonHostTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonHostEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of statistics for particular network protocols which contain a DS field, and that has been discovered on a particular dataSource.

        The probe will add to this table all appropriate network
        protocols, for each network address seen as the source or
        destination address in all packets with no MAC errors, and
        will increment octet and packet counts in the table for all
        packets with no MAC errors.

        If the dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'false',
        then all entries in this table will be deleted, and the
        agent will not process packets on behalf of any
        dsmonHostCtlEntry."
::= { dsmonHostObjects 2 }

dsmonHostEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonHostEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current

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DESCRIPTION
        "A list of information on Differentiated Services DSCP
        usage, containing packet and octet counters for each counter
        aggregation group index configured for collection per host
        address, as identified in the dsmonAggProfileTable.

        The dsmonHostCtlIndex value in the index identifies the
        dsmonHostCtlEntry on whose behalf this entry was created.

        The protocolDirLocalIndex value in the index identifies the
        specific network layer protocol encapsulation associated
        with each entry, and the network protocol type of the
        dsmonHostAddress object.  It MUST identify a
        protocolDirEntry which contains a DS field (e.g., IPv4 or
        IPv6).  Note that if a protocol encapsulation with multiple
        network layers is specified, then associated entries in this
        table refer to the innermost network protocol layer host
        address.

        The dsmonAggGroupIndex value in the index is determined by
        examining the DSCP value in each monitored packet, and the
        dsmonAggProfileTable entry configured for that value.

        An example of the indexing of this entry is
        dsmonHostOutPkts.1.27273.3.200.4.171.69.120.0"
INDEX { dsmonHostCtlIndex,
        dsmonHostTimeMark,
        dsmonAggGroupIndex,
        protocolDirLocalIndex,
        dsmonHostAddress }
::= { dsmonHostTable 1 }

DsmonHostEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonHostTimeMark TimeFilter, dsmonHostAddress OCTET STRING, dsmonHostInPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonHostInOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonHostInOvflPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonHostInOvflOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonHostInHCPkts ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonHostInHCOctets ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonHostOutPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonHostOutOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonHostOutOvflPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonHostOutOvflOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonHostOutHCPkts ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonHostOutHCOctets ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonHostCreateTime LastCreateTime

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}

dsmonHostTimeMark OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX TimeFilter MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The Time Filter index for this table. This object may be used by a management station to retrieve only rows which have been created or modified since a particular time. Note that the current value for a row are always returned and the TimeFilter is not a historical data archiving mechanism. Refer to RFC 2021 [[RFC2021](./rfc2021 ""Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2"")] for a detailed description of TimeFilter operation." ::= { dsmonHostEntry 1 }

dsmonHostAddress OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..110)) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The network address for this dsmonHostEntry.

        This object is encoded according to the protocol type
        indicated by the protocolDirLocalIndex value in the index.

        In addition, this object may have some 'rightmost' bits
        cleared to zero for counting purposes, as indicated by the
        associated dsmonHostCtlIPv4PrefixLen or
        dsmonHostCtlIPv6PrefixLen objects."
::= { dsmonHostEntry 2 }

dsmonHostInPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of packets without errors, using one of the DSCP values in the indicated counter aggregation group, and transmitted to this address, since this entry was added to the dsmonHostTable. Note that this is the number of link- layer packets, so if a single network-layer packet is fragmented into several link-layer frames, this counter is incremented several times." ::= { dsmonHostEntry 3 }

dsmonHostInOctets OBJECT-TYPE

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SYNTAX      ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS       "octets"
MAX-ACCESS  read-only
STATUS      current
DESCRIPTION
        "The number of octets in all packets, transmitted to this
        address and using one of the DSCP values in the indicated
        counter aggregation group, since this entry was added to the
        dsmonHostTable (excluding framing bits but including FCS
        octets), excluding those octets in packets that contained
        errors.

        Note this doesn't count just those octets in the particular
        protocol frames, but includes the entire packet that
        contained the protocol."
::= { dsmonHostEntry 4 }

dsmonHostInOvflPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonHostInPkts counter has overflowed. Note that this object will only be instantiated if the associated dsmonHostInHCPkts object is also instantiated for a particular dataSource." ::= { dsmonHostEntry 5 }

dsmonHostInOvflOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonHostInOctets counter has overflowed. Note that this object will only be instantiated if the associated dsmonHostInHCOctets object is also instantiated for a particular dataSource." ::= { dsmonHostEntry 6 }

dsmonHostInHCPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonHostInPkts object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON

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        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonHostEntry 7 }

dsmonHostInHCOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonHostInOctets object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonHostEntry 8 }

dsmonHostOutPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of packets without errors, using one of the DSCP values in the indicated counter aggregation group, and transmitted by this address, since this entry was added to the dsmonHostTable. Note that this is the number of link- layer packets, so if a single network-layer packet is fragmented into several link-layer frames, this counter is incremented several times." ::= { dsmonHostEntry 9 }

dsmonHostOutOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets, transmitted by this address and using one of the DSCP values in the identified counter aggregation group, since this entry was added to the dsmonHostTable (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets), excluding those octets in packets that contained errors.

        Note this doesn't count just those octets in the particular
        protocol frames, but includes the entire packet that
        contained the protocol."
::= { dsmonHostEntry 10 }

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dsmonHostOutOvflPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonHostOutPkts counter has overflowed. Note that this object will only be instantiated if the associated dsmonHostOutHCPkts object is also instantiated for a particular dataSource." ::= { dsmonHostEntry 11 }

dsmonHostOutOvflOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonHostOutOctets counter has overflowed. Note that this object will only be instantiated if the associated dsmonHostOutHCOctets object is also instantiated for a particular dataSource." ::= { dsmonHostEntry 12 }

dsmonHostOutHCPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonHostOutPkts object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonHostEntry 13 }

dsmonHostOutHCOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonHostOutOctets object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonHostEntry 14 }

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dsmonHostCreateTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX LastCreateTime MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this dsmonHost entry was last instantiated by the agent. This can be used by the management station to ensure that the entry has not been deleted and recreated between polls." ::= { dsmonHostEntry 15 }

-- -- Per-Protocol Per-Host NL Statistics TopN Control Table

dsmonHostTopNCtlTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonHostTopNCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A set of parameters that control the creation of a report of the top N dsmonHost entries according to a selected metric.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        entries which may be created in this table.  In this case,
        the agent SHOULD return an error-status of
        'resourceUnavailable(13)', as per [section 4.2.5](#section-4.2.5) of the
        'Protocol Operations for SNMPv2' specification [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")]."
::= { dsmonHostObjects 3 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonHostTopNCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonHostTopNCtlTable.

        Entries are created and deleted from this table by
        management action only, using the dsmonHostTopNCtlStatus
        RowStatus object.

        The agent SHOULD support non-volatile configuration of this
        table, and upon system initialization, the table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.

        Activation of a control row in this table will cause an

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        associated dsmonHostTopNTable to be created and maintained
        by the agent."
INDEX { dsmonHostTopNCtlIndex }
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlTable 1 }

DsmonHostTopNCtlEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonHostTopNCtlIndex Integer32, dsmonHostTopNCtlHostIndex Integer32, dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase INTEGER, dsmonHostTopNCtlTimeRemaining Integer32, dsmonHostTopNCtlGeneratedReports Counter32, dsmonHostTopNCtlDuration Integer32, dsmonHostTopNCtlRequestedSize Integer32, dsmonHostTopNCtlGrantedSize Integer32, dsmonHostTopNCtlStartTime TimeStamp, dsmonHostTopNCtlOwner OwnerString, dsmonHostTopNCtlStatus RowStatus }

dsmonHostTopNCtlIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the dsmonHostTopNCtlTable. Each such entry defines one Top N report prepared for one RMON dataSource." ::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 1 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlHostIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonHostTable for which a top N report will be prepared on behalf of this entry. The dsmonHostTable is identified by the value of the dsmonHostCtlIndex for that table - that value is used here to identify the particular table.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonHostTopNCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 2 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX INTEGER { dsmonHostTopNInPkts(1), dsmonHostTopNInOctets(2),

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              dsmonHostTopNOutPkts(3),
              dsmonHostTopNOutOctets(4),
              dsmonHostTopNTotalPkts(5),
              dsmonHostTopNTotalOctets(6),
              dsmonHostTopNInHCPkts(7),
              dsmonHostTopNInHCOctets(8),
              dsmonHostTopNOutHCPkts(9),
              dsmonHostTopNOutHCOctets(10),
              dsmonHostTopNTotalHCPkts(11),
              dsmonHostTopNTotalHCOctets(12)
           }
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS     current
DESCRIPTION
        "The variable(s) for each dsmonHost that the
        dsmonHostTopNRate and dsmonHostTopNHCRate variables are
        based upon.  Each dsmonHostTopN report generated on behalf
        of this control entry will be ranked in descending order,
        based on the associated dsmonHostTable counter(s),
        identified by this object.

        The following table identifies the dsmonHostTable counters
        associated with each enumeration:

        Enumeration              RateBase MIB Objects
        -----------              --------------------
        dsmonHostTopNInPkts         dsmonHostInPkts
        dsmonHostTopNInOctets       dsmonHostInOctets
        dsmonHostTopNOutPkts        dsmonHostOutPkts
        dsmonHostTopNOutOctets      dsmonHostOutOctets
        dsmonHostTopNTotalPkts      dsmonHostInPkts +
                                      dsmonHostOutPkts
        dsmonHostTopNTotalOctets    dsmonHostInOctets +
                                      dsmonHostOutOctets
        dsmonHostTopNInHCPkts       dsmonHostInHCPkts
        dsmonHostTopNInHCOctets     dsmonHostInHCOctets
        dsmonHostTopNOutHCPkts      dsmonHostOutHCPkts
        dsmonHostTopNOutHCOctets    dsmonHostOutHCPkts
        dsmonHostTopNTotalHCPkts    dsmonHostInHCPkts +
                                      dsmonHostOutHCPkts
        dsmonHostTopNTotalHCOctets  dsmonHostInHCOctets +
                                      dsmonHostOutHCOctets

        The following enumerations are only available if the agent
        supports High Capacity monitoring:

        dsmonHostTopNInHCPkts
        dsmonHostTopNInHCOctets

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        dsmonHostTopNOutHCPkts
        dsmonHostTopNOutHCOctets
        dsmonHostTopNTotalHCPkts
        dsmonHostTopNTotalHCOctets

        It is an implementation-specific matter whether an agent can
        detect an overflow condition resulting from the addition of
        two counter delta values for the following enumerations:

        dsmonHostTopNTotalPkts
        dsmonHostTopNTotalOctets
        dsmonHostTopNTotalHCPkts
        dsmonHostTopNTotalHCOctets

        In the event such an overflow condition can be detected by
        the agent, the associated dsmonHostTopNRate,
        dsmonHostTopNRateOvfl, and/or dsmonHostTopNHCRate objects
        should be set to their maximum value.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonHostTopNCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 3 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlTimeRemaining OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "seconds" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of seconds left in the report currently being collected. When this object is modified by the management station, a new collection is started, possibly aborting a currently running report. The new value is used as the requested duration of this report, and is immediately loaded into the associated dsmonHostTopNCtlDuration object.

        When the report finishes, the probe will automatically start
        another collection with the same initial value of
        dsmonHostTopNCtlTimeRemaining.  Thus the management station
        may simply read the resulting reports repeatedly, checking
        the startTime and duration each time to ensure that a report
        was not missed or that the report parameters were not
        changed.

        While the value of this object is non-zero, it decrements by
        one per second until it reaches zero.  At the time that this
        object decrements to zero, the report is made accessible in
        the dsmonHostTopNTable, overwriting any report that may be

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        there.

        When this object is modified by the management station, any
        associated entries in the dsmonHostTopNTable shall be
        deleted."
DEFVAL { 1800 }
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 4 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlGeneratedReports OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "reports" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of reports that have been generated by this entry." ::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 5 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlDuration OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "seconds" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of seconds that this report has collected during the last sampling interval.

        When the associated dsmonHostTopNCtlTimeRemaining object is
        set, this object shall be set by the probe to the same value
        and shall not be modified until the next time the
        dsmonHostTopNCtlTimeRemaining is set.

        This value shall be zero if no reports have been requested
        for this dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry."
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 6 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlRequestedSize OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum number of dsmonHost entries requested for this report.

        When this object is created or modified, the probe SHOULD
        set dsmonHostTopNCtlGrantedSize as closely to this object as
        is possible for the particular probe implementation and

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        available resources."
DEFVAL { 150 }
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 7 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlGrantedSize OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum number of dsmonHost entries in this report.

        When the associated dsmonHostTopNCtlRequestedSize object is
        created or modified, the probe SHOULD set this object as
        closely to the requested value as is possible for the
        particular implementation and available resources.  The
        probe MUST NOT lower this value except as a result of a
        set to the associated dsmonHostTopNCtlRequestedSize
        object.

        Protocol entries with the highest value of dsmonHostTopNRate
        or dsmonHostTopNHCRate (depending on the value of the
        associated dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase object) shall be placed
        in this table in decreasing order of this rate until there
        is no more room or until there are no more dsmonHost
        entries."
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 8 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlStartTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX TimeStamp MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this top N report was last started. In other words, this is the time that the associated dsmonHostTopNCtlTimeRemaining object was modified to start the requested report or the time the report was last automatically (re)started.

        This object may be used by the management station to
        determine if a report was missed or not."
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 9 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlOwner OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OwnerString MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION

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        "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore
        using the resources assigned to it."
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 10 }

dsmonHostTopNCtlStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The status of this dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry.

        An entry MUST NOT exist in the active state unless all
        objects in the entry have an appropriate value.

        If this object is not equal to active(1), all associated
        entries in the dsmonHostTopNTable shall be deleted by the
        agent."
::= { dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry 11 }

-- -- dsmonHost TopN Table

dsmonHostTopNTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonHostTopNEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A set of statistics for those dsmonHost entries that have counted the highest number of octets or packets.

        If the dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'false',
        then all entries in this table SHALL be deleted, and the
        agent will not process TopN reports on behalf of any
        dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry.

        When the dsmonAggControlLocked object is set to 'true', then
        particular reports SHOULD be restarted from the beginning,
        on behalf of all active rows in the dsmonHostTopNCtlTable.

        Note that dsmonHost entries which did not increment at all
        during the report interval SHOULD NOT be included in
        dsmonHostTopN reports."
::= { dsmonHostObjects 4 }

dsmonHostTopNEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonHostTopNEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible

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STATUS     current
DESCRIPTION
        "A conceptual row in the dsmonHostTopNTable.

        The dsmonHostTopNCtlIndex value in the index identifies the
        dsmonHostTopNCtlEntry on whose behalf this entry was
        created.

        Entries in this table are ordered from 1 to 'N', where lower
        numbers represent higher values of the rate base object,
        over the report interval."
INDEX { dsmonHostTopNCtlIndex, dsmonHostTopNIndex }
::= { dsmonHostTopNTable 1 }

DsmonHostTopNEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonHostTopNIndex Integer32, dsmonHostTopNPDLocalIndex Integer32, dsmonHostTopNAddress OCTET STRING, dsmonHostTopNAggGroup DsmonCounterAggGroupIndex, dsmonHostTopNRate Gauge32, dsmonHostTopNRateOvfl Gauge32, dsmonHostTopNHCRate CounterBasedGauge64 }

dsmonHostTopNIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the dsmonHostTopNTable among those in the same report. This index is between 1 and N, where N is the number of entries in this report." ::= { dsmonHostTopNEntry 1 }

dsmonHostTopNPDLocalIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The protocolDirLocalIndex value which identifies the protocol associated with the dsmonHostTopNAddress object in this entry.

        If the protocolDirEntry associated with the
        protocolDirLocalIndex with the same value as this object is
        de-activated or deleted, then the agent MUST delete this
        dsmonHostTopN entry."

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::= { dsmonHostTopNEntry 2 }

dsmonHostTopNAddress OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OCTET STRING MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonHostAddress value for the network host identified in this entry. The associated dsmonHostTopNPDLocalIndex object identifies the network protocol type and the encoding rules for this object." ::= { dsmonHostTopNEntry 3 }

dsmonHostTopNAggGroup OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonCounterAggGroupIndex MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The counter aggregation group index value associated with host identified in this entry. This object identifies the dsmonAggGroupEntry with the same dsmonAggControlIndex value as the associated dsmonHostCtlAggProfile object and the same dsmonAggGroupIndex value as this object." ::= { dsmonHostTopNEntry 4 }

dsmonHostTopNRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The amount of change in the selected variable during this sampling interval. The selected variable is this host's instance of the object selected by dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase.

        If the associated dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase indicates a High
        Capacity monitoring enumeration, (e.g.
        'dsmonHostTopNInHCPkts'), then this object will contain the
        the least significant 32 bits of the associated
        dsmonHostTopNHCRate object."
::= { dsmonHostTopNEntry 5 }

dsmonHostTopNRateOvfl OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The most significant 32 bits of the associated dsmonHostTopNHCRate object.

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        If the associated dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase is equal to any
        of the High Capacity monitoring enumerations (e.g.
        'dsmonHostTopNInHCPkts'), then this object will contain the
        upper 32 bits of the associated dsmonHostTopNHCRate object.

        If the associated dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase is not equal to
        any of High Capacity monitoring enumerations, then this
        object will contain the value zero.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonHostTopNEntry 6 }

dsmonHostTopNHCRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX CounterBasedGauge64 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The amount of change in the selected variable during this sampling interval. The selected variable is this host's instance of the object selected by dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase.

        If the associated dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase is not equal to
        any of the High Capacity monitoring enumerations (e.g.,
        'dsmonHostTopNInPkts'), then this object will contain the
        value zero, and the associated dsmonHostTopNRate object will
        contain the change in the selected variable during the
        sampling interval.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonHostTopNEntry 7 }

-- ************************************************************** -- * * -- * P E R - C O N V E R S I O N C O L L E C T I O N S * -- * * -- **************************************************************

-- -- AL Matrix Statistics Control Table

dsmonMatrixCtlTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonMatrixCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current

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DESCRIPTION
        "Controls setup of per counter aggregation group, per host-
        pair, application protocol distribution statistics.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        entries which may be created in this table.  In this case,
        the agent SHOULD return an error-status of
        'resourceUnavailable(13)', as per [section 4.2.5](#section-4.2.5) of the
        'Protocol Operations for SNMPv2' specification [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")]."
::= { dsmonMatrixObjects 1 }

dsmonMatrixCtlEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonMatrixCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonMatrixCtlTable.

        Entries are created and deleted from this table by
        management action only, using the dsmonMatrixCtlStatus
        RowStatus object.

        The agent SHOULD support non-volatile configuration of this
        table, and upon system initialization, the table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.

        Activation of a control row in this table will cause an
        associated dsmonMatrixSDTable and dsmonMatrixDSTable to be
        created and maintained by the agent."
INDEX { dsmonMatrixCtlIndex }
::= { dsmonMatrixCtlTable 1 }

DsmonMatrixCtlEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonMatrixCtlIndex Integer32, dsmonMatrixCtlDataSource DataSource, dsmonMatrixCtlAggProfile DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex, dsmonMatrixCtlMaxDesiredEntries Integer32, dsmonMatrixCtlDroppedFrames Counter32, dsmonMatrixCtlInserts Counter32, dsmonMatrixCtlDeletes Counter32, dsmonMatrixCtlCreateTime LastCreateTime, dsmonMatrixCtlOwner OwnerString, dsmonMatrixCtlStatus RowStatus }

dsmonMatrixCtlIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible

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STATUS      current
DESCRIPTION
        "An arbitrary and unique index for this
        dsmonMatrixCtlEntry."
::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 1 }

dsmonMatrixCtlDataSource OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DataSource MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The source of data for the associated dsmonMatrixSDTable and dsmonMatrixDSTable.

        Note that only packets that contain a network protocol
        encapsulation which contains a DS field [[RFC2474](./rfc2474 ""Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers"")] will be
        counted in this table.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonMatrixCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 2 }

dsmonMatrixCtlAggProfile OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonCounterAggProfileIndex MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonAggControlIndex value identifying the counter aggregation profile which should be used on behalf of this dsmonMatrixCtlEntry.

        The associated dsmonAggControlEntry and
        dsmonAggProfileEntries, identified by the same
        dsmonAggControlIndex index value, MUST be active in order
        for this entry to remain active.  It is possible for the
        counter aggregation configuration to change from a valid to
        invalid state for this dsmonMatrix collection.  In this
        case, the associated dsmonMatrixCtlStatus object will be
        changed to the 'notReady' state, and data collection will
        not occur on behalf of this control entry.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        counter aggregation profiles which may be applied to a
        particular data source.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonMatrixCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 3 }

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dsmonMatrixCtlMaxDesiredEntries OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (-1 | 1..2147483647) UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum number of entries that are desired in the dsmonMatrix tables on behalf of this control entry. The probe will not create more than this number of associated entries in these tables, but may choose to create fewer entries in this table for any reason including the lack of resources.

        If this value is set to -1, the probe may create any number
        of entries in this table.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonMatrixCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 4 }

dsmonMatrixCtlDroppedFrames OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "frames" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The total number of frames which were received by the probe and therefore not accounted for in the *StatsDropEvents, but for which the probe chose not to count for the associated dsmonMatrixSD and dsmonMatrixDS entries for whatever reason. Most often, this event occurs when the probe is out of some resources and decides to shed load from this collection.

        This count does not include packets that were not counted
        because they had MAC-layer errors.

        Note that if the dsmonMatrix tables are inactive because no
        appropriate protocols are enabled in the protocol directory,
        this value SHOULD be 0.

        Note that, unlike the dropEvents counter, this number is the
        exact number of frames dropped."
::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 5 }

dsmonMatrixCtlInserts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-only

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STATUS     current
DESCRIPTION
        "The number of times a dsmonMatrix entry has been inserted
        into the dsmonMatrix tables.  If an entry is inserted, then
        deleted, and then inserted, this counter will be incremented
        by 2.  The addition of a conversation into both the
        dsmonMatrixSDTable and dsmonMatrixDSTable shall be counted
        as two insertions (even though every addition into one table
        must be accompanied by an insertion into the other).

        To allow for efficient implementation strategies, agents may
        delay updating this object for short periods of time.  For
        example, an implementation strategy may allow internal data
        structures to differ from those visible via SNMP for short
        periods of time.  This counter may reflect the internal data
        structures for those short periods of time.  Note that the
        sum of the dsmonMatrixSDTable and dsmonMatrixDSTable sizes
        can be determined by subtracting dsmonMatrixCtlDeletes from
        dsmonMatrixCtlInserts."
::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 6 }

dsmonMatrixCtlDeletes OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of times a dsmonMatrix entry has been deleted from the dsmonMatrix tables (for any reason). If an entry is deleted, then inserted, and then deleted, this counter will be incremented by 2. The deletion of a conversation from both the dsmonMatrixSDTable and dsmonMatrixDSTable shall be counted as two deletions (even though every deletion from one table must be accompanied by a deletion from the other).

        To allow for efficient implementation strategies, agents MAY
        delay updating this object for short periods of time.  For
        example, an implementation strategy may allow internal data
        structures to differ from those visible via SNMP for short
        periods of time.  This counter may reflect the internal data
        structures for those short periods of time.

        Note that the sum of the dsmonMatrixSDTable and
        dsmonMatrixDSTable sizes can be determined by subtracting
        dsmonMatrixCtlDeletes from dsmonMatrixCtlInserts."
::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 7 }

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dsmonMatrixCtlCreateTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX LastCreateTime MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this control entry was last activated. This can be used by the management station to detect if the table has been deleted and recreated between polls." ::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 8 }

dsmonMatrixCtlOwner OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OwnerString MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore using the resources assigned to it." ::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 9 }

dsmonMatrixCtlStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The status of this dsmonMatrixCtlEntry.

        An entry MUST NOT exist in the active state unless all
        objects in the entry have an appropriate value.

        If this object is not equal to active(1), all associated
        entries in the dsmonMatrixSDTable and dsmonMatrixDSTable
        shall be deleted."
::= { dsmonMatrixCtlEntry 10 }

-- -- AL Matrix SD Statistics Table

dsmonMatrixSDTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonMatrixSDEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A list of application traffic matrix entries which collect statistics for conversations of a particular application protocol between two network-level addresses. This table is indexed first by the source address and then by the

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        destination address to make it convenient to collect all
        statistics from a particular address.

        The probe will add to this table all pairs of addresses for
        all protocols seen in all packets with no MAC errors, and
        will increment octet and packet counts in the table for all
        packets with no MAC errors."
::= { dsmonMatrixObjects 2 }

dsmonMatrixSDEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonMatrixSDEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonMatrixSDTable.

        The dsmonMatrixCtlIndex value in the index identifies the
        dsmonMatrixCtlEntry on whose behalf this entry was created.

        The dsmonAggGroupIndex value in the index is determined by
        examining the DSCP value in each monitored packet, and the
        dsmonAggProfileTable entry configured for that value."
INDEX { dsmonMatrixCtlIndex,
        dsmonMatrixTimeMark,
        dsmonAggGroupIndex,
        dsmonMatrixNLIndex,
        dsmonMatrixSourceAddress,
        dsmonMatrixDestAddress,
        dsmonMatrixALIndex
       }
::= { dsmonMatrixSDTable 1 }

DsmonMatrixSDEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonMatrixTimeMark TimeFilter, dsmonMatrixNLIndex Integer32, dsmonMatrixSourceAddress OCTET STRING, dsmonMatrixDestAddress OCTET STRING, dsmonMatrixALIndex Integer32, dsmonMatrixSDPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonMatrixSDOvflPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonMatrixSDHCPkts ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonMatrixSDOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonMatrixSDOvflOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonMatrixSDHCOctets ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonMatrixSDCreateTime LastCreateTime }

dsmonMatrixTimeMark OBJECT-TYPE

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SYNTAX      TimeFilter
MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
STATUS      current
DESCRIPTION
        "The Time Filter index for this table.  This object may be
        used by a management station to retrieve only rows which
        have been created or modified since a particular time.  Note
        that the current value for a row are always returned and the
        TimeFilter is not a historical data archiving mechanism.
        Refer to [RFC 2021](./rfc2021) [[RFC2021](./rfc2021 ""Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2"")] for a detailed description of
        TimeFilter operation."
::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 1 }

dsmonMatrixNLIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The protocolDirLocalIndex value of a protocolDirEntry representing the specific network layer protocol encapsulation associated with each entry, and the network protocol type of the dsmonMatrixSourceAddress and dsmonMatrixDestAddress objects." ::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 2 }

dsmonMatrixSourceAddress OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..54)) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The network source address for this dsmonMatrix entry.

        This is represented as an octet string with specific
        semantics and length as identified by the dsmonMatrixNLIndex
        component of the index.

        For example, if the dsmonMatrixNLIndex indicates an
        encapsulation of IPv4, this object is encoded as a length
        octet of 4, followed by the 4 octets of the IPv4 address, in
        network byte order."
::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 3 }

dsmonMatrixDestAddress OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..54)) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The network destination address for this dsmonMatrix entry.

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        This is represented as an octet string with specific
        semantics and length as identified by the dsmonMatrixNLIndex
        component of the index.

        For example, if the dsmonMatrixNLIndex indicates an
        encapsulation of IPv4, this object is encoded as a length
        octet of 4, followed by the 4 octets of the IPv4 address, in
        network byte order."
::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 4 }

dsmonMatrixALIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The protocolDirLocalIndex value of the protocolDirEntry representing the specific application layer protocol associated with each entry.

        It MUST identify an protocolDirEntry which is a direct or
        indirect descendant of the protocolDirEntry identified by
        the associated dsmonMatrixNLIndex object."
::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 5 }

dsmonMatrixSDPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of packets of this protocol type (indicated by the associated dsmonMatrixALIndex object) without errors transmitted from the source address to the destination address since this entry was added to the dsmonMatrixSDTable. Note that this is the number of link- layer packets, so if a single network-layer packet is fragmented into several link-layer frames, this counter is incremented several times." ::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 6 }

dsmonMatrixSDOvflPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonMatrixSDPkts counter has overflowed, since this entry was added to the dsmonMatrixSDTable."

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::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 7 }

dsmonMatrixSDHCPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonMatrixSDPkts object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 8 }

dsmonMatrixSDOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets in packets of this protocol type transmitted from the source address to the destination address since this entry was added to the dsmonMatrixSDTable (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets), excluding those octets in packets that contained errors.

        Note this doesn't count just those octets in the particular
        protocol frames, but includes the entire packet that
        contained the protocol."
::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 9 }

dsmonMatrixSDOvflOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonMatrixSDOctets counter has overflowed, since this entry was added to the dsmonMatrixSDTable." ::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 10 }

dsmonMatrixSDHCOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION

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        "The 64-bit version of the dsmonMatrixSDPkts object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 11 }

dsmonMatrixSDCreateTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX LastCreateTime MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this entry was last activated. This can be used by the management station to ensure that the entry has not been deleted and recreated between polls." ::= { dsmonMatrixSDEntry 12 }

-- -- AL Matrix DS Statistics Table

dsmonMatrixDSTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonMatrixDSEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A list of application traffic matrix entries which collect statistics for conversations of a particular application protocol between two network-level addresses. This table is indexed first by the destination address and then by the source address to make it convenient to collect all statistics from a particular address.

        The probe will add to this table all pairs of addresses for
        all protocols seen in all packets with no MAC errors, and
        will increment octet and packet counts in the table for all
        packets with no MAC errors."
::= { dsmonMatrixObjects 3 }

dsmonMatrixDSEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonMatrixDSEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonMatrixDSTable. Note that this table is conceptually a re-ordered version of the dsmonMatrixSDTable. Therefore, all of the index values from

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        that table are used by reference, and their semantics are
        exactly as described in the dsmonMatrixSDTable.

        The dsmonMatrixCtlIndex value in the index identifies the
        dsmonMatrixCtlEntry on whose behalf this entry was created.

        The dsmonMatrixTimeMark value in the index identifies the
        Time Filter index for this table.

        The dsmonAggGroupIndex value in the index is determined by
        examining the DSCP value in each monitored packet, and the
        dsmonAggProfileTable entry configured for that value.

        The dsmonMatrixNLIndex value in the index identifies the
        protocolDirLocalIndex value of a protocolDirEntry
        representing the specific network layer protocol
        encapsulation associated with each entry, and the network
        protocol type of the dsmonMatrixSourceAddress and
        dsmonMatrixDestAddress objects.

        The dsmonMatrixDestAddress value in the index identifies the
        network destination address for this dsmonMatrix entry.

        The dsmonMatrixSourceAddress value in the index identifies
        the network source address for this dsmonMatrix entry.

        The dsmonMatrixALIndex value in the index identifies the
        protocolDirLocalIndex value of the protocolDirEntry
        representing the specific application layer protocol
        associated with each entry."
INDEX { dsmonMatrixCtlIndex,
        dsmonMatrixTimeMark,
        dsmonAggGroupIndex,
        dsmonMatrixNLIndex,
        dsmonMatrixDestAddress,
        dsmonMatrixSourceAddress,
        dsmonMatrixALIndex
       }
::= { dsmonMatrixDSTable 1 }

DsmonMatrixDSEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonMatrixDSPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonMatrixDSOvflPkts ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonMatrixDSHCPkts ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonMatrixDSOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonMatrixDSOvflOctets ZeroBasedCounter32, dsmonMatrixDSHCOctets ZeroBasedCounter64, dsmonMatrixDSCreateTime LastCreateTime

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}

dsmonMatrixDSPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of packets of this protocol type (indicated by the associated dsmonMatrixALIndex object) without errors transmitted from the source address to the destination address since this entry was added to the dsmonMatrixDSTable. Note that this is the number of link- layer packets, so if a single network-layer packet is fragmented into several link-layer frames, this counter is incremented several times." ::= { dsmonMatrixDSEntry 1 }

dsmonMatrixDSOvflPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonMatrixDSPkts counter has overflowed, since this entry was added to the dsmonMatrixDSTable." ::= { dsmonMatrixDSEntry 2 }

dsmonMatrixDSHCPkts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "packets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonMatrixDSPkts object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonMatrixDSEntry 3 }

dsmonMatrixDSOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets in packets of this protocol type

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        transmitted from the source address to the destination
        address since this entry was added to the dsmonMatrixDSTable
        (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets), excluding
        those octets in packets that contained errors.

        Note this doesn't count just those octets in the particular
        protocol frames, but includes the entire packet that
        contained the protocol."
::= { dsmonMatrixDSEntry 4 }

dsmonMatrixDSOvflOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The number of times the associated dsmonMatrixDSOctets counter has overflowed, since this entry was added to the dsmonMatrixDSTable." ::= { dsmonMatrixDSEntry 5 }

dsmonMatrixDSHCOctets OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64 UNITS "octets" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The 64-bit version of the dsmonMatrixDSPkts object.

        Note that this object will only be instantiated if the RMON
        agent supports High Capacity monitoring for a particular
        dataSource."
::= { dsmonMatrixDSEntry 6 }

dsmonMatrixDSCreateTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX LastCreateTime MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this entry was last activated. This can be used by the management station to ensure that the entry has not been deleted and recreated between polls." ::= { dsmonMatrixDSEntry 7 }

-- -- Per-Protocol Per-Matrix Statistics TopN Control Table

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dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A set of parameters that control the creation of a report of the top N dsmonMatrix entries according to a selected metric.

        Note that an agent MAY choose to limit the actual number of
        entries which may be created in this table.  In this case,
        the agent SHOULD return an error-status of
        'resourceUnavailable(13)', as per [section 4.2.5](#section-4.2.5) of the
        'Protocol Operations for SNMPv2' specification [[RFC1905](./rfc1905 ""Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)"")]."
::= { dsmonMatrixObjects 4 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTable.

        Entries are created and deleted from this table by
        management action only, using the dsmonMatrixTopNCtlStatus
        RowStatus object.

        The agent SHOULD support non-volatile configuration of this
        table, and upon system initialization, the table SHOULD be
        initialized with the saved values.

        Activation of a control row in this table will cause an
        associated dsmonMatrixTopNTable to be created and maintained
        by the agent."
INDEX { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlIndex }
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTable 1 }

DsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlIndex Integer32, dsmonMatrixTopNCtlMatrixIndex Integer32, dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase INTEGER, dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTimeRemaining Integer32, dsmonMatrixTopNCtlGeneratedRpts Counter32, dsmonMatrixTopNCtlDuration Integer32, dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRequestedSize Integer32, dsmonMatrixTopNCtlGrantedSize Integer32, dsmonMatrixTopNCtlStartTime TimeStamp, dsmonMatrixTopNCtlOwner OwnerString,

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dsmonMatrixTopNCtlStatus           RowStatus

}

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTable. Each such entry defines one Top N report prepared for one RMON dataSource." ::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 1 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlMatrixIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..65535) MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonMatrixSDTable for which a top N report will be prepared on behalf of this entry. The dsmonMatrixSDTable is identified by the same value of the dsmonMatrixCtlIndex object.

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 2 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX INTEGER { dsmonMatrixTopNPkts(1), dsmonMatrixTopNOctets(2), dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts(3), dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctets(4) } MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The variable for each dsmonMatrixSD entry that the dsmonMatrixTopNRate and dsmonMatrixTopNHCRate variables are based upon. Each dsmonMatrixTopN report generated on behalf of this control entry will be ranked in descending order, based on the associated dsmonMatrixSDTable counter, identified by this object.

        The following table identifies the dsmonMatrixSDTable
        counters associated with each enumeration:

        Enumeration                 RateBase MIB Objects

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        -----------                 --------------------
        dsmonMatrixTopNPkts         dsmonMatrixSDPkts
        dsmonMatrixTopNOctets       dsmonMatrixSDOctets
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts       dsmonMatrixSDHCPkts
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctets     dsmonMatrixSDHCOctets

        The following enumerations are only available if the agent
        supports High Capacity monitoring:

        dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctets

        This object MUST NOT be modified if the associated
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlStatus object is equal to active(1)."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 3 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTimeRemaining OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "seconds" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of seconds left in the report currently being collected. When this object is modified by the management station, a new collection is started, possibly aborting a currently running report. The new value is used as the requested duration of this report, and is immediately loaded into the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlDuration object.

        When the report finishes, the probe will automatically start
        another collection with the same initial value of
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTimeRemaining.  Thus the management
        station may simply read the resulting reports repeatedly,
        checking the startTime and duration each time to ensure that
        a report was not missed or that the report parameters were
        not changed.

        While the value of this object is non-zero, it decrements by
        one per second until it reaches zero.  At the time that this
        object decrements to zero, the report is made accessible in
        the dsmonMatrixTopNTable, overwriting any report that may be
        there.

        When this object is modified by the management station, any
        associated entries in the dsmonMatrixTopNTable shall be
        deleted."
DEFVAL { 1800 }
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 4 }

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dsmonMatrixTopNCtlGeneratedRpts OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 UNITS "reports" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of reports that have been generated by this entry." ::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 5 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlDuration OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "seconds" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of seconds that this report has collected during the last sampling interval.

        When the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTimeRemaining object
        is set, this object shall be set by the probe to the same
        value and shall not be modified until the next time the
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTimeRemaining is set.

        This value shall be zero if no reports have been requested
        for this dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 6 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRequestedSize OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum number of dsmonMatrix entries requested for this report.

        When this object is created or modified, the probe SHOULD
        set dsmonMatrixTopNCtlGrantedSize as closely to this object
        as is possible for the particular probe implementation and
        available resources."
DEFVAL { 150 }
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 7 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlGrantedSize OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647) UNITS "table entries" MAX-ACCESS read-only

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STATUS     current
DESCRIPTION
        "The maximum number of dsmonMatrix entries in this report.

        When the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRequestedSize object
        is created or modified, the probe SHOULD set this object as
        closely to the requested value as is possible for the
        particular implementation and available resources.  The
        probe MUST NOT lower this value except as a result of a
        set to the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRequestedSize
        object.

        Protocol entries with the highest value of
        dsmonMatrixTopNRate or dsmonMatrixTopNHCRate (depending on
        the value of the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase
        object) shall be placed in this table in decreasing order of
        this rate until there is no more room or until there are no
        more dsmonMatrix entries."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 8 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlStartTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX TimeStamp MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The value of sysUpTime when this top N report was last started. In other words, this is the time that the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTimeRemaining object was modified to start the requested report or the time the report was last automatically (re)started.

        This object may be used by the management station to
        determine if a report was missed or not."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 9 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlOwner OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OwnerString MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore using the resources assigned to it." ::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 10 }

dsmonMatrixTopNCtlStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current

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DESCRIPTION
        "The status of this dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry.

        An entry MUST NOT exist in the active state unless all
        objects in the entry have an appropriate value.

        If this object is not equal to active(1), all associated
        entries in the dsmonMatrixTopNTable shall be deleted by the
        agent."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry 11 }

-- -- dsmonMatrix TopN Table

dsmonMatrixTopNTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsmonMatrixTopNEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A set of statistics for those dsmonMatrix entries that have counted the highest number of octets or packets.

        If the dsmonAggControlLocked object is equal to 'false',
        then all entries in this table SHALL be deleted, and the
        agent will not process TopN reports on behalf of any
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry.

        When the dsmonAggControlLocked object is set to 'true', then
        particular reports SHOULD be restarted from the beginning,
        on behalf of all active rows in the dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTable.

        Note that dsmonMatrix entries which did not increment at all
        during the report interval SHOULD NOT be included in
        dsmonMatrixTopN reports."
::= { dsmonMatrixObjects 5 }

dsmonMatrixTopNEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonMatrixTopNEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A conceptual row in the dsmonMatrixTopNTable.

        The dsmonMatrixTopNCtlIndex value in the index identifies
        the dsmonMatrixTopNCtlEntry on whose behalf this entry was
        created.

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        Entries in this table are ordered from 1 to 'N', where lower
        numbers represent higher values of the rate base object,
        over the report interval."
INDEX { dsmonMatrixTopNCtlIndex, dsmonMatrixTopNIndex }
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNTable 1 }

DsmonMatrixTopNEntry ::= SEQUENCE { dsmonMatrixTopNIndex Integer32, dsmonMatrixTopNAggGroup DsmonCounterAggGroupIndex, dsmonMatrixTopNNLIndex Integer32, dsmonMatrixTopNSourceAddress OCTET STRING, dsmonMatrixTopNDestAddress OCTET STRING, dsmonMatrixTopNALIndex Integer32, dsmonMatrixTopNPktRate Gauge32, dsmonMatrixTopNPktRateOvfl Gauge32, dsmonMatrixTopNHCPktRate CounterBasedGauge64, dsmonMatrixTopNRevPktRate Gauge32, dsmonMatrixTopNRevPktRateOvfl Gauge32, dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevPktRate CounterBasedGauge64, dsmonMatrixTopNOctetRate Gauge32, dsmonMatrixTopNOctetRateOvfl Gauge32, dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctetRate CounterBasedGauge64, dsmonMatrixTopNRevOctetRate Gauge32, dsmonMatrixTopNRevOctetRateOvfl Gauge32, dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevOctetRate CounterBasedGauge64 }

dsmonMatrixTopNIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the dsmonMatrixTopNTable among those in the same report. This index is between 1 and N, where N is the number of entries in this report." ::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 1 }

dsmonMatrixTopNAggGroup OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DsmonCounterAggGroupIndex MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The counter aggregation group index value associated with host identified in this entry. This object identifies the dsmonAggGroupEntry with the same dsmonAggControlIndex value as the associated dsmonMatrixCtlAggProfile object and the same dsmonAggGroupIndex value as this object."

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::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 2 }

dsmonMatrixTopNNLIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The protocolDirLocalIndex value which identifies the protocol associated with the dsmonMatrixTopNSourceAddress and dsmonMatrixTopNDestAddress objects in this entry.

        If the protocolDirEntry associated with the
        protocolDirLocalIndex with the same value as this object is
        de-activated or deleted, then the agent MUST delete this
        dsmonMatrixTopN entry."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 3 }

dsmonMatrixTopNSourceAddress OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OCTET STRING MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonMatrixSDSourceAddress value for the source network host identified in this entry. The associated dsmonMatrixTopNNLIndex object identifies the network protocol type and the encoding rules for this object." ::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 4 }

dsmonMatrixTopNDestAddress OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OCTET STRING MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The dsmonMatrixSDDestAddress value for the destination network host identified in this entry. The associated dsmonMatrixTopNNLIndex object identifies the network protocol type and the encoding rules for this object." ::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 5 }

dsmonMatrixTopNALIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 (1..2147483647) MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The protocolDirLocalIndex value which identifies the application protocol associated with this entry.

        If the protocolDirEntry associated with the

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        protocolDirLocalIndex with the same value as this object is
        de-activated or deleted, then the agent MUST delete this
        dsmonMatrixTopN entry."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 6 }

dsmonMatrixTopNPktRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of packets seen of this protocol from the source host to the destination host during this sampling interval, counted using the rules for counting the dsmonMatrixSDPkts object.

        If the value of dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is
        dsmonMatrixTopNPkts, this variable will be used to sort this
        report.

        If the value of the dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts or dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctets, then this
        object will contain the the least significant 32 bits of the
        associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCPktRate object."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 7 }

dsmonMatrixTopNPktRateOvfl OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The most significant 32 bits of the associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCPktRate object.

        If the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is equal to
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts or dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctets, then this
        object will contain the most significant 32 bits of the
        associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCPktRate object, otherwise this
        object will contain the value zero.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 8 }

dsmonMatrixTopNHCPktRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX CounterBasedGauge64 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION

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        "The number of packets seen of this protocol from the source
        host to the destination host during this sampling interval,
        counted using the rules for counting the dsmonMatrixSDHCPkts
        object.

        If the value of dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts, this variable will be used to sort
        this report.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 9 }

dsmonMatrixTopNRevPktRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of packets seen of this protocol from the destination host to the source host during this sampling interval, counted using the rules for counting the dsmonMatrixDSPkts object (note that the corresponding dsmonMatrixSDPkts object selected is the one whose source address is equal to dsmonMatrixTopNDestAddress and whose destination address is equal to dsmonMatrixTopNSourceAddress.)" ::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 10 }

dsmonMatrixTopNRevPktRateOvfl OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The most significant 32 bits of the associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevPktRate object.

        If the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is equal to
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts or dsmonMatrixTopNHCOCtets, then this
        object will contain the most significant 32 bits of the
        associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevPktRate object, otherwise
        this object will contain the value zero.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 11 }

dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevPktRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX CounterBasedGauge64

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MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS     current
DESCRIPTION
        "The number of packets seen of this protocol from the
        destination host to the source host during this sampling
        interval, counted using the rules for counting the
        dsmonMatrixDSHCPkts object  (note that the corresponding
        dsmonMatrixSDHCPkts object selected is the one whose source
        address is equal to dsmonMatrixTopNDestAddress and whose
        destination address is equal to
        dsmonMatrixTopNSourceAddress.)

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 12 }

dsmonMatrixTopNOctetRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets seen of this protocol from the source host to the destination host during this sampling interval, counted using the rules for counting the dsmonMatrixSDOctets object.

        If the value of dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is
        dsmonMatrixTopNOctets, this variable will be used to sort
        this report.

        If the value of the dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts or dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctets, then this
        object will contain the the least significant 32 bits of the
        associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCPktRate object."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 13 }

dsmonMatrixTopNOctetRateOvfl OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The most significant 32 bits of the associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctetRate object.

        If the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is equal to
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts or dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctets, then this
        object will contain the most significant 32 bits of the
        associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctetRate object, otherwise this

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        object will contain the value zero.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 14 }

dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctetRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX CounterBasedGauge64 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets seen of this protocol from the source host to the destination host during this sampling interval, counted using the rules for counting the dsmonMatrixSDHCOctets object.

        If the value of dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is
        dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctets, this variable will be used to sort
        this report.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 15 }

dsmonMatrixTopNRevOctetRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets seen of this protocol from the destination host to the source host during this sampling interval, counted using the rules for counting the dsmonMatrixDSOctets object (note that the corresponding dsmonMatrixSDOctets object selected is the one whose source address is equal to dsmonMatrixTopNDestAddress and whose destination address is equal to dsmonMatrixTopNSourceAddress.)" ::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 16 }

dsmonMatrixTopNRevOctetRateOvfl OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "The most significant 32 bits of the associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevOctetRate object.

        If the associated dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase is equal to

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        dsmonMatrixTopNHCPkts or dsmonMatrixTopNHCOCtets, then this
        object will contain the most significant 32 bits of the
        associated dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevPktRate object, otherwise
        this object will contain the value zero.

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 17 }

dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevOctetRate OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX CounterBasedGauge64 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of octets seen of this protocol from the destination host to the source host during this sampling interval, counted using the rules for counting the dsmonMatrixDSHCOctets object (note that the corresponding dsmonMatrixSDHCOctets object selected is the one whose source address is equal to dsmonMatrixTopNDestAddress and whose destination address is equal to dsmonMatrixTopNSourceAddress.)

        The agent MAY choose not to instantiate this object if High
        Capacity monitoring is not supported."
::= { dsmonMatrixTopNEntry 18 }

-- -- Conformance Section

dsmonCompliances OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonConformance 1 } dsmonGroups OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsmonConformance 2 }

-- -- Compliance for agents that do not support HC or Counter64

dsmonCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Describes the requirements for conformance to the Differentiated Services Monitoring MIB." MODULE -- this module MANDATORY-GROUPS { dsmonCounterAggControlGroup, dsmonStatsGroup, dsmonCapsGroup

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                     }

    GROUP   dsmonStatsHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonStatsHCGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement High Capacity monitoring."

    GROUP   dsmonPdistGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonPdistGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 protocolDirTable based protocol
        distribution monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonPdistHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonPdistHCGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 protocolDirTable based protocol
        distribution monitoring on high capacity interfaces."

    GROUP  dsmonHostGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonHostGroup is mandatory for systems which implement
        RMON-2 nlHostTable based network protocol monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonHostHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonHostHCGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 nlHostTable based network protocol
        monitoring, on high capacity interfaces."

    GROUP  dsmonMatrixGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonMatrixGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 alMatrix based application protocol
        monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonMatrixHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonMatrixHCGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 alMatrix based application protocol
        monitoring, on high capacity interfaces."

::= { dsmonCompliances 1 }

-- -- Compliance for agents that support HC and Counter64

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dsmonHCCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Describes the requirements for conformance to the Differentiated Services Monitoring MIB for agents which also support High Capacity monitoring and the Counter64 data type." MODULE -- this module MANDATORY-GROUPS { dsmonCounterAggControlGroup, dsmonStatsGroup, dsmonStatsHCGroup, dsmonCapsGroup }

    GROUP   dsmonPdistGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonPdistGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 protocolDirTable based protocol
        distribution monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonPdistHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonPdistHCGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 protocolDirTable based protocol
        distribution monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonHostGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonHostGroup is mandatory for systems which implement
        RMON-2 nlHostTable based network protocol monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonHostHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonHostHCGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 nlHostTable based network protocol
        monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonMatrixGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonMatrixGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 alMatrix based application protocol
        monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonMatrixHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonMatrixHCGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 alMatrix based application protocol

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        monitoring."

::= { dsmonCompliances 2 }

-- -- Compliance for agents that support HC, but not Counter64

dsmonHCNoC64Compliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "Describes the requirements for conformance to the Differentiated Services Monitoring MIB for an agent which supports high capacity monitoring, but does not support the Counter64 data type (e.g., only supports the SNMPv1 protocol)." MODULE -- this module MANDATORY-GROUPS { dsmonCounterAggControlGroup, dsmonStatsGroup, dsmonStatsOvflGroup, dsmonCapsGroup }

    GROUP   dsmonStatsHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "Implementation of the dsmonStatsHCGroup is not required.
        High Capacity monitoring."

    GROUP   dsmonPdistGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonPdistGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 protocolDirTable based protocol
        distribution monitoring."

    GROUP   dsmonPdistOvflGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonPdistGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 protocolDirTable based protocol
        distribution monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonPdistHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "Implementation of the dsmonPdistHCGroup is not required."

    GROUP  dsmonHostGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonHostGroup is mandatory for systems which implement

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        RMON-2 nlHostTable based network protocol monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonHostOvflGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonHostGroup is mandatory for systems which implement
        RMON-2 nlHostTable based network protocol monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonHostHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "Implementation of the dsmonHostHCGroup is not required."

    GROUP  dsmonMatrixGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonMatrixGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 alMatrix based application protocol
        monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonMatrixOvflGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "The dsmonMatrixGroup is mandatory for systems which
        implement RMON-2 alMatrix based application protocol
        monitoring."

    GROUP  dsmonMatrixHCGroup
    DESCRIPTION
        "Implementation of the dsmonMatrixHCGroup is not required."

::= { dsmonCompliances 3 }

-- Object Groups

dsmonCounterAggControlGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonMaxAggGroups, dsmonAggControlLocked, dsmonAggControlChanges, dsmonAggControlLastChangeTime, dsmonAggControlDescr, dsmonAggControlOwner, dsmonAggControlStatus, dsmonAggGroupIndex, dsmonAggGroupDescr, dsmonAggGroupStatus } STATUS current DESCRIPTION

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        "A collection of objects used to configure and manage
        counter aggregation groups for DSMON collection purposes."
::= { dsmonGroups 1 }

dsmonStatsGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonStatsControlDataSource, dsmonStatsControlAggProfile, dsmonStatsControlDroppedFrames, dsmonStatsControlCreateTime, dsmonStatsControlOwner, dsmonStatsControlStatus, dsmonStatsInPkts, dsmonStatsInOctets, dsmonStatsOutPkts, dsmonStatsOutOctets } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing per DSCP statistics." ::= { dsmonGroups 2 }

dsmonStatsOvflGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonStatsInOvflPkts, dsmonStatsInOvflOctets, dsmonStatsOutOvflPkts, dsmonStatsOutOvflOctets } STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing per-DSCP overflow counters for systems with high capacity data sources, but without support for the Counter64 data type." ::= { dsmonGroups 3 }

dsmonStatsHCGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonStatsInHCPkts, dsmonStatsInHCOctets, dsmonStatsOutHCPkts, dsmonStatsOutHCOctets } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing per DSCP statistics for high capacity data sources." ::= { dsmonGroups 4 }

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dsmonPdistGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonPdistCtlDataSource, dsmonPdistCtlAggProfile, dsmonPdistCtlMaxDesiredEntries, dsmonPdistCtlDroppedFrames, dsmonPdistCtlInserts, dsmonPdistCtlDeletes, dsmonPdistCtlCreateTime, dsmonPdistCtlOwner, dsmonPdistCtlStatus, dsmonPdistStatsPkts, dsmonPdistStatsOctets, dsmonPdistStatsCreateTime, dsmonPdistTopNCtlPdistIndex, dsmonPdistTopNCtlRateBase, dsmonPdistTopNCtlTimeRemaining, dsmonPdistTopNCtlGeneratedReprts, dsmonPdistTopNCtlDuration, dsmonPdistTopNCtlRequestedSize, dsmonPdistTopNCtlGrantedSize, dsmonPdistTopNCtlStartTime, dsmonPdistTopNCtlOwner, dsmonPdistTopNCtlStatus, dsmonPdistTopNPDLocalIndex, dsmonPdistTopNAggGroup, dsmonPdistTopNRate } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing per protocol DSCP monitoring extensions to the RMON-2 MIB." ::= { dsmonGroups 5 }

dsmonPdistOvflGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonPdistStatsOvflPkts, dsmonPdistStatsOvflOctets, dsmonPdistTopNRateOvfl } STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing per-protocol DSCP overflow counters for systems with high capacity data sources, but without support for the Counter64 data type." ::= { dsmonGroups 6 }

dsmonPdistHCGroup OBJECT-GROUP

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OBJECTS {
        dsmonPdistStatsHCPkts,
        dsmonPdistStatsHCOctets,
        dsmonPdistTopNHCRate
}
STATUS  current
DESCRIPTION
        "A collection of objects providing per protocol DSCP
        monitoring extensions to the RMON-2 MIB for High Capacity
        networks."
::= { dsmonGroups 7 }

dsmonHostGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonHostCtlDataSource, dsmonHostCtlAggProfile, dsmonHostCtlMaxDesiredEntries, dsmonHostCtlIPv4PrefixLen, dsmonHostCtlIPv6PrefixLen, dsmonHostCtlDroppedFrames, dsmonHostCtlInserts, dsmonHostCtlDeletes, dsmonHostCtlCreateTime, dsmonHostCtlOwner, dsmonHostCtlStatus, dsmonHostInPkts, dsmonHostInOctets, dsmonHostOutPkts, dsmonHostOutOctets, dsmonHostCreateTime, dsmonHostTopNCtlHostIndex, dsmonHostTopNCtlRateBase, dsmonHostTopNCtlTimeRemaining, dsmonHostTopNCtlGeneratedReports, dsmonHostTopNCtlDuration, dsmonHostTopNCtlRequestedSize, dsmonHostTopNCtlGrantedSize, dsmonHostTopNCtlStartTime, dsmonHostTopNCtlOwner, dsmonHostTopNCtlStatus, dsmonHostTopNPDLocalIndex, dsmonHostTopNAddress, dsmonHostTopNAggGroup, dsmonHostTopNRate } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing per Host monitoring

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        functions."
::= { dsmonGroups 8 }

dsmonHostOvflGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonHostInOvflPkts, dsmonHostInOvflOctets, dsmonHostOutOvflPkts, dsmonHostOutOvflOctets, dsmonHostTopNRateOvfl } STATUS deprecated DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing per host DSCP overflow counters for systems with high capacity data sources, but without support for the Counter64 data type." ::= { dsmonGroups 9 }

dsmonHostHCGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonHostInHCPkts, dsmonHostInHCOctets, dsmonHostOutHCPkts, dsmonHostOutHCOctets, dsmonHostTopNHCRate } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing per Host monitoring functions for High Capacity networks." ::= { dsmonGroups 10 }

dsmonCapsGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonCapabilities } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing an indication of the DSMON monitoring functions supported by the agent." ::= { dsmonGroups 11 }

dsmonMatrixGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonMatrixCtlDataSource, dsmonMatrixCtlAggProfile, dsmonMatrixCtlMaxDesiredEntries, dsmonMatrixCtlDroppedFrames,

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        dsmonMatrixCtlInserts,
        dsmonMatrixCtlDeletes,
        dsmonMatrixCtlCreateTime,
        dsmonMatrixCtlOwner,
        dsmonMatrixCtlStatus,
        dsmonMatrixSDPkts,
        dsmonMatrixSDOctets,
        dsmonMatrixSDCreateTime,
        dsmonMatrixDSPkts,
        dsmonMatrixDSOctets,
        dsmonMatrixDSCreateTime,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlMatrixIndex,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRateBase,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlTimeRemaining,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlGeneratedRpts,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlDuration,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlRequestedSize,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlGrantedSize,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlStartTime,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlOwner,
        dsmonMatrixTopNCtlStatus,
        dsmonMatrixTopNAggGroup,
        dsmonMatrixTopNNLIndex,
        dsmonMatrixTopNSourceAddress,
        dsmonMatrixTopNDestAddress,
        dsmonMatrixTopNALIndex,
        dsmonMatrixTopNPktRate,
        dsmonMatrixTopNRevPktRate,
        dsmonMatrixTopNOctetRate,
        dsmonMatrixTopNRevOctetRate
}
STATUS  current
DESCRIPTION
        "A collection of objects providing per conversation
        monitoring functions."
::= { dsmonGroups 12 }

dsmonMatrixOvflGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonMatrixSDOvflPkts, dsmonMatrixSDOvflOctets, dsmonMatrixDSOvflPkts, dsmonMatrixDSOvflOctets, dsmonMatrixTopNPktRateOvfl, dsmonMatrixTopNRevPktRateOvfl, dsmonMatrixTopNOctetRateOvfl, dsmonMatrixTopNRevOctetRateOvfl }

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STATUS  deprecated
DESCRIPTION
        "A collection of objects providing per conversation
        monitoring functions for systems with high capacity data
        sources, but without support for the Counter64 data type."
::= { dsmonGroups 13 }

dsmonMatrixHCGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { dsmonMatrixSDHCPkts, dsmonMatrixSDHCOctets, dsmonMatrixDSHCPkts, dsmonMatrixDSHCOctets, dsmonMatrixTopNHCPktRate, dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevPktRate, dsmonMatrixTopNHCOctetRate, dsmonMatrixTopNHCRevOctetRate } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing per conversation monitoring functions for High Capacity networks." ::= { dsmonGroups 14 }

END

5. Counter Aggregation Configuration Usage Examples

This section contains an example of the steps that may be followed by a management station to configure the objects in the dsmonCounterAggControlGroup.

A note about these examples:

they do not define a standard
an agent is not obligated to support them
a management application is not constrained by them
the SET(object = value [, ...]) notation is only conceptual, and is not meant to represent an actual SNMP Set PDU.

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5.1. Step 1: Unlock the Counter Aggregation Configuration

Before any write operations to the tabular objects in this group can be made, the counter aggregation configuration must be unlocked by setting the dsmonAggControlLocked scalar to false:

  SET(dsmonAggControlLocked.0 = false(2));

5.2. Step 2: Check the Maximum number of Counter Aggregation Groups

Make sure the desired counter aggregation groups have a chance of being configured on the agent.

  maxGroups = GET(dsmonAggMaxAggGroups.0);

For this example, maxGroups is greater or equal to 64.

5.3. Step 3: Check if the counter aggregation profiles already exist

Make sure the desired counter aggregation profiles have not already been configured, or perhaps recreated after an agent restart. The following example is oversimplified, in that the entire counter aggregation configuration should actually be verified.

  profile1Descr = GET(dsmonAggControlDescr.1);
  profile1Owner = GET(dsmonAggControlOwner.1);
  profile1Status = GET(dsmonAggControlStatus.1);

For this example, none of the counter aggregation profiles already exist.

5.4. Step 4: Create the Counter Aggregation Control Entries

The management station should create one entry in the dsmonAggControlTable for each counter aggregation profile to be configured on the agent.

Steps 4, 5, and 6 are repeated for each counter aggregation profile to be configured on the agent. There are 3 example counter aggregation profiles shown in each of these steps.

Example 1: Each DSCP in its own counter aggregation group.

  SET(dsmonAggControlStatus.1 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggControlOwner.1 = "Example App 1",
      dsmonAggControlDescr.1 = "1 DSCP Per Group");

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Example 2: a collection of DIFFSERV PHBs.

  SET(dsmonAggControlStatus.2 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggControlOwner.2 = "Example App 2",
      dsmonAggControlDescr.2 = "June 2000 DIFFSERV PHBs");

Example 3: an aggregated collection of DIFFSERV PHBs.

  SET(dsmonAggControlStatus.3 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggControlOwner.3 = "Example App 3",
      dsmonAggControlDescr.3 = "Limited June 2000 PHBs");

5.5. Step 5: Create the Counter Aggregation Group Descriptions

Example 1: Each DSCP in its own counter aggregation group. One group is created for each codepoint, for a total of 64 rows.

  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.1.0 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.1.0 = "DSCP 0");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.1.1 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.1.1 = "DSCP 1");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.1.2 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.1.2 = "DSCP 2");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.1.3 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.1.3 = "DSCP 3");

  ...

  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.1.63 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.1.63 = "DSCP 63");

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Example 2: a collection of current DIFFSERV PHBs. One group is created for each PHB to be monitored.

  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.0 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.0 = "CS0");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.1 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.1 = "CS1");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.2 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.2 = "CS2");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.3 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.3 = "CS3");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.4 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.4 = "CS4");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.5 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.5 = "CS5");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.6 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.6 = "CS6");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.7 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.7 = "CS7");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.8 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.8 = "EF");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.9 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.9 = "AF11");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.10 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.10 = "AF12");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.11 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.11 = "AF13");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.12 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.12 = "AF21");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.13 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.13 = "AF22");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.14 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.14 = "AF23");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.15 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.15 = "AF31");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.16 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.16 = "AF32");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.17 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.17 = "AF33");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.18 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.18 = "AF41");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.19 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.19 = "AF42");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.20 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.20 = "AF43");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.2.21 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.2.21 = "Nonzero Default");

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Example 3: an aggregated representation of current DIFFSERV PHBs. One group is created for each counter aggregation to be monitored (8 rows in this example).

  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.3.0 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.3.0 = "Zero CS");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.3.1 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.3.1 = "Nonzero CS");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.3.2 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.3.2 = "EF");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.3.3 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.3.3 = "AF1");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.3.4 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.3.4 = "AF2");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.3.5 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.3.5 = "AF3");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.3.6 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.3.6 = "AF4");
  SET(dsmonAggGroupStatus.3.7 = createAndGo(4),
      dsmonAggGroupDescr.3.7 = "Nonzero Default");

5.6. Step 6: Create the Counter Aggregation Profile Mappings

After the dsmonAggControlEntries are activated, the associated read- write dsmonAggProfileEntries will be created. The management station must create 64 entries in the dsmonAggProfileTable for each counter aggregation profile configured in the dsmonAggControlTable.

Example 1: Each DSCP in its own counter aggregation group

  SET(dsmonAggGroupIndex.1.0 = 0,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.1.1 = 1,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.1.2 = 2,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.1.3 = 3,
      ...
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.1.63 = 63);

Example 2: a collection of current DIFFSERV PHBs.

  SET(dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.0 = 0,         -- CS0
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.1 = 21,        -- Nonzero Default
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.2 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.3 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.4 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.5 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.6 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.7 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.8 = 1,         -- CS1

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      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.9 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.10 = 9,        -- AF11
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.11 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.12 = 10,       -- AF12
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.13 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.14 = 11,       -- AF13
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.15 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.16 = 2,        -- CS2
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.17 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.18 = 12,       -- AF21
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.19 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.20 = 13,       -- AF22
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.21 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.22 = 14,       -- AF23
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.23 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.24 = 3,        -- CS3
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.25 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.26 = 15,       -- AF31
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.27 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.28 = 16,       -- AF32
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.29 = 8,        -- EF
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.30 = 17,       -- AF33
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.31 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.32 = 4,        -- CS4
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.33 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.34 = 18,       -- AF41
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.35 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.36 = 19,       -- AF42
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.37 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.38 = 20,       -- AF43
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.39 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.40 = 5,        -- CS5
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.41 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.42 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.43 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.44 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.45 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.46 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.47 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.48 = 6,        -- CS6
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.49 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.50 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.51 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.52 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.53 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.54 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.55 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.56 = 7,        -- CS7

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      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.57 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.58 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.59 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.60 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.61 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.62 = 21,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.2.63 = 21);

Example 3: an aggregated collection of current DIFFSERV PHBs.

  SET(dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.0 = 0,         -- Zero CS
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.1 = 7,         -- Nonzero Default
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.2 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.3 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.4 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.5 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.6 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.7 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.8 = 1,         -- Nonzero CS
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.9 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.10 = 3,        -- AF1
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.11 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.12 = 3,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.13 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.14 = 3,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.15 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.16 = 1,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.17 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.18 = 4,        -- AF2
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.19 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.20 = 4,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.21 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.22 = 4,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.23 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.24 = 1,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.25 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.26 = 5,        -- AF3
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.27 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.28 = 5,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.29 = 2,        -- EF
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.30 = 5,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.31 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.32 = 1,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.33 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.34 = 6,        -- AF4
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.35 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.36 = 6,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.37 = 7,

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      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.38 = 6,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.39 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.40 = 1,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.41 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.42 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.43 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.44 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.45 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.46 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.47 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.48 = 1,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.49 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.50 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.51 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.52 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.53 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.54 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.55 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.56 = 1,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.57 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.58 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.59 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.60 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.61 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.62 = 7,
      dsmonAggGroupIndex.3.63 = 7);

5.7. Step 7: Lock the Counter Aggregation Configuration

Before any existing collections can be activated by the agent, the counter aggregation configuration must be locked, by setting the dsmonAggControlLocked scalar to 'true'.

  SET(dsmonAggControlLocked.0 = true(1));

6. Intellectual Property

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such proprietary rights by implementors or users of this specification can be obtained from the IETF Secretariat.

The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights which may cover technology that may be required to practice this standard. Please address the information to the IETF Executive Director.

7. Acknowledgements

This memo is a product of the RMONMIB WG. It is based on an Internet Draft that was produced with a great deal of assistance from Keith McCloghrie and Bijendra Jain.

8. References

[RFC1155] Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets", STD 16, RFC 1155, May 1990.

[RFC1157] Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M. and C. Davin, "Simple Network Management Protocol", STD 15, RFC 1157, May 1990.

[RFC1212] Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Concise MIB Definitions", STD 16, RFC 1212, March 1991.

[RFC1215] Rose, M., "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP", RFC 1215, March 1991.

[RFC1901] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2", RFC 1901, January 1996.

[RFC1905] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1905, January 1996.

[RFC1906] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1906, January 1996.

[RFC2021] Waldbusser, S., "Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2", RFC 2021, January 1997.

[RFC2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.

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[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

[RFC2474] Nichols, K., Blake, S., Baker, F. and D. Black, "Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers", RFC 2474, December 1998.

[RFC2475] Blake, S., Black, D., Carlson, M., Davies, E., Wang, Z. and W. Weiss, "An Architecture for Differentiated Services", RFC 2475, December 1998.

[RFC2570] Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D. and B. Stewart, "Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework", RFC 2570, April 1999.

[RFC2571] Wijnen, B., Harrington, D. and R. Presuhn, "An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks", RFC 2571, April 1999.

[RFC2572] Case, J., Harrington D., Presuhn R. and B. Wijnen, "Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2572, April 1999.

[RFC2573] Levi, D., Meyer, P. and B. Stewart, "SNMPv3 Applications", RFC 2573, April 1999.

[RFC2574] Blumenthal, U. and B. Wijnen, "User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)", RFC 2574, April 1999.

[RFC2575] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R. and K. McCloghrie, "View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2575, April 1999.

[RFC2578] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D. and J. Schoenwaelder, "Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58, RFC 2578, April 1999.

[RFC2579] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D.and J. Schoenwaelder, "Textual Conventions for SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2579, April 1999.

[RFC2580] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D. and J. Schoenwaelder, "Conformance Statements for SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2580, April 1999.

[RFC2856] Bierman, A., McCloghrie, K., and R. Presuhn, "Textual Conventions for Additional High Capacity Data Types", RFC 2856, June 2000.

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[RFC2895] Bierman, A., Bucci, C. and R. Iddon, "Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Reference", RFC 2895, August 2000.

[RFC3273] Waldbusser, S., "Remote Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity Networks", RFC 3273, May 2002.

9. Security Considerations

In order to implement this MIB, a probe must capture all packets on the locally-attached network, including packets between third parties. These packets are analyzed to collect network addresses, protocol usage information, and conversation statistics. Data of this nature may be considered sensitive in some environments. In such environments the administrator may wish to restrict SNMP access to the probe.

There are a number of management objects defined in this MIB that have a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write and/or read-create. Such objects may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. The support for SET operations in a non-secure environment without proper protection can have a negative effect on network operations.

SNMPv1 by itself is not a secure environment. Even if the network itself is secure (for example by using IPSec), even then, there is no control as to who on the secure network is allowed to access and GET/SET (read/change/create/delete) the objects in this MIB.

It is recommended that the implementors consider the security features as provided by the SNMPv3 framework. Specifically, the use of the User-based Security Model RFC 2574 [[RFC2574](./rfc2574 ""User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)"")] and the View- based Access Control Model RFC 2575 [[RFC2575](./rfc2575 ""View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)"")] is recommended.

It is then a customer/user responsibility to ensure that the SNMP entity giving access to an instance of this MIB, is properly configured to give access to the objects only to those principals (users) that have legitimate rights to indeed GET or SET (change/create/delete) them.

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10. Author's Address

Andy Bierman Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA USA 95134

Phone: +1 408-527-3711 EMail: abierman@cisco.com

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