Chuck, Did this Junos issue ever get resolved?
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Chuck Anderson <c...@wpi.edu> wrote: > Has anyone tried to use or implement polling of the Q-BRIDGE-MIB on > any Juniper products, using either commercial or open source NMS > software or custom in-house software? What has been your experience > of the Juniper support of those SNMP products to correctly report > Port/VLAN memberships and VLAN/MAC FDB information? > > Juniper EX-series (at least EX2200,3200,4200) 12.x and earlier has a > working Q-BRIDGE-MIB (dot1qVlanStaticEgressPorts) and JUNIPER-VLAN-MIB > (jnxExVlan). Because Q-BRIDGE-MIB refers only to internal VLAN > indexes, you need to use both MIBs to get Port/VLAN mappings including > the 802.1Q VLAN tag ID (jnxExVlanTag). This means custom software, or > an NMS vendor willing to implement the Juniper Enterprise MIBs. > > All other Juniper Junos platforms only have Q-BRIDGE-MIB, but it is > broken (doesn't follow RFC 4363 standard PortList definition, instead > storing port indexes as ASCII-encoded, comma separated values), > apparently for a very long time. So again, you need custom software > or an NMS vendor willing to implement the broken Juniper version of > Q-BRIDGE-MIB (along with detecting which implementation is needed on > any particular device). This hasn't been a problem for us and in fact > went unnoticed, because we never cared to poll VLAN information from > our MX routers, only EX switches. > > But now EX-series (and QFX-series) 13.x and newer with ELS have > dropped the Enterprise JUNIPER-VLAN-MIB (a good thing to not require > Enterprise MIBs to get the VLAN tag ID) and have adopted the broken > Q-BRIDGE-MIB that all the other Junos platforms have been using (a > very bad thing). I'm pushing to have Juniper fix this, but their > concern is that it may break SNMP software that has been assuming the > broken Q-BRIDGE-MIB implementation for all these years. > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp