Force10 How to view MAC Address Table entries via SNMP from Dell Force10 Switches

By default, an snmpwalk on the dot1dTpFdbTable of a Dell Force10 switch will not return the MAC address table (Forwarding Database) of the switch.
 

 Here is a link for the dot1dBridge MIB tree example in detail which is a common OUI:

  http://www.cs.vsb.cz/grygarek/TPS/projekty/0405Z/SNMP/mib/dot1dbridge.html

 

Steps:

In order to allow the Dell Force10 SNMP agent to respond to snmpgets for the dot1dTpFdbTable, a hidden CLI command needs to be enabled.

1. Login to the CLI of a Dell Force10 switch.
2. Type in "enable", hit return and enter the privileged-exec enable password.
3. Enter the switch configuration mode by tying "configure".
4. Type "enable-dot1d-mibwalk", hit enter.
5. Exit out of the config.
6. Save config by typing "write", hit enter.

Executed commands from the above steps:
FTOS#configure
FTOS(conf)#enable-dot1d-mibwalk
FTOS(conf)#exit
FTOS#write

The following shows the results from a mibwalk on the dot1dTpFdbTable
This example was created using iReasoning MIB Browser