Smarts MPLS: MPLS manager not showing router VRFs; Does Smarts discover VRFs on non Provider Edge routers?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


MPLS manager is not showing router VRFs on non-Provider Edge routers

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Cause

VRFs can exist on both PE (Provide Edge and CE (Customer Edge devices but requires the following oids to be present:

To discover VRF instances, Smarts MPLS polls the MPLS-VPN-MIB (.1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1).

To find out the operation status of VRFs on a Cisco device, Smarts MPLS polls the OID 

.1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1.5 


The reason the VRFs are not being discovered in this case, is because the device does not contain the following oid in its mib walk:

1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1

Resolution

Contact the device vendor for clarification on why the device snmp agent is not picking up the MPLS-VPN-MIB (.1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1) oid.