IS-IS Discovery

IS-IS links are found in the isisISAdjTable (defined in the ISIS-MIB module). This table has the information needed to find the Adjacency Intermediate System. Each entry in this SNMP MIB table represents a unidirectional link from the Intermediate-System that is queried to the Adjacent Intermediate Systems running IS-IS and "peering" with the source router.

The information about IS-IS is stored in two tables: isisElement and isisLink. isisElement contains the ISISSysID, a unique identifier of the Intermediate-System (the router’s name in ISO protocols).

If two routers—​IS-A and IS-B—​support ISIS-MIB, enlinkd creates two link entries in Horizon: one from IS-A to IS-B (from IS-A’s adjTable), and the complementary link from IS-B to IS-A (from IS-B’s adjTable).

You can find generic information about the IS-IS link discovery process in the IS-IS Information box on any device’s Node Detail page.

IS-IS Topology Updater

The IS-IS Topology Updater consolidates IS-IS data and provides the IS-IS OnmsTopology. Only full bidirectional connections between two IS-IS-supported devices become edges in the topology. For example, Node A and Node B are connected by an edge if, and only if, there is an IS-IS link in Node A to Node B, and vice versa.

IS-IS links are represented in the ISIS-MIB as in the table of supported OIDs.

Information gathered from supported OIDs is stored in the following database tables:

Network diagram depicting database tables that are used in IS-IS discovery
Figure 1. Database tables related to IS-IS discovery

Supported OIDs

The following OIDs are supported for the discovery and construction of the IS-IS network topology. The IS-IS Discovery Collector collects them:

Supported OIDs from the ISIS-MIB module
Name Description OID

isisSysID

ID for this Intermediate-System. This value is appended to each of the area addresses to form the Network Entity Titles. The derivation of a value for this object is implementation-specific. Some implementations may automatically assign values and not permit an SNMP write, while others may require the value to be set manually.
Configured values must survive an agent reboot.

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isisSysAdminState

Administrative state of this Intermediate-System. Setting this object’s value to "on" enables the Intermediate-System. Configured values must survive an agent reboot.

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isisSysObject

isisSysObject

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isisCircIfIndex

Value of ifIndex for the interface to which this circuit corresponds. You cannot modify this object after creation.

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isisCircAdminState

Administrative state of the circuit.

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isisISAdjState

State of the adjacency.

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isisISAdjNeighSNPAAddress

SNPA address of the neighboring system.

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isisISAdjNeighSysType

Type of the neighboring system.

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isisISAdjNeighSysID

System ID of the neighboring Intermediate-System.

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isisISAdjNbrExtendedCircID

4-byte extended circuit ID learned from the neighbor during three-way handshake, or 0.

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