OSPF Discovery
The OSPF Topology Updater provides OSPF OnmsTopology, consolidating OSPF data the OSPF Collector collects. Only full bidirectional connections between two OSPF-supported devices become edges. Node A and Node B are connected by an OSPF edge if and only if there is an OSPF link in Node A to Node B and vice versa.
The following MIBSs are supported to discover and build the OSPF network topology and are collected by the OSPF Discovery Collector.
The relevant MIBs for OSPF topology are OSPF-MIB and OSPF-TRAP-MIB. These MIBs define the relevant objects used to find OSPF links, specifically the router ID. In OSPF, the router ID has the same format as an IP address, but identifies the router independent of its IP address.
All the interfaces are identified by their IP addresses. The OSPF links come from the SNMP ospfNbrTable defined in OSPF-MIB. This table is persisted in the ospfLink table:
| Name | Description | OID |
|---|---|---|
ospfRouterId |
A 32-bit integer uniquely identifying the router in the autonomous system. By convention, to ensure uniqueness, this should default to the value of one of the router’s IP interface addresses. This object is persistent and when written the entity should save the change to non-volatile storage. |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.1.1.0 |
ospfAdminStat |
The administrative status of OSPF in the router.
The value |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.1.2.0 |
ospfVersionNumber |
The current version number of the OSPF protocol is 2. |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.1.3.0 |
ospfAreaBdrRtrStatus |
A flag to note whether this router is an area border router. |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.1.4.0 |
ospfAreaASBdrRtrStatus |
A flag to note whether this router is configured as an autonomous system border router. This object is persistent and when written the entity should save the change to non-volatile storage. |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.1.5.0 |
ospfIfIpAddress |
The IP address of this OSPF interface. |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.7.1.1 |
ospfAddressLessIf |
To ease the instancing of addressed and addressless interfaces; this variable takes the value 0 on interfaces with IP addresses and the corresponding value of |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.7.1.2 |
ospfNbrIpAddr |
The IP address this neighbor uses in its IP source address. Note that on addressless links, this will not be 0.0.0.0 but the address of another of the neighbor’s interfaces. |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.10.1.1 |
ospfNbrAddressLessIndex |
On an interface having an IP address, zero.
On addressless interfaces, the corresponding value of |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.10.1.2 |
ospfNbrRtrId |
A 32-bit integer (represented as a type IpAddress) uniquely identifying the neighboring router in the autonomous system. |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.14.10.1.3 |
| Name | Description | OID |
|---|---|---|
ipAdEntIfIndex |
The index value that uniquely identifies the interface to which this entry applies.
The interface identified by a particular value of this index is the same interface as identified by the same value of the |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.4.20.1.2 |
ipAdEntNetMask |
The subnet mask associated with the IPv4 address of this entry. The value of the mask is an IPv4 address with all the network bits set to 1 and all the host bits set to 0. |
.1.3.6.1.2.1.4.20.1.3 |
Find generic information about the OSPF link discovery process in the OSPF information box on the node detail page of the device. Information gathered from these OIDs is stored in the following database table:
