All MIBs › ALTIGA-GENERAL-STATS-MIB
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2002-09-11
Category: VPN and Security, Vendor: Altiga
Description: Provides general statistics for Altiga (Cisco) VPN 3000 series concentrators, including CPU utilization, active sessions, and throughput counters.
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What Is ALTIGA-GENERAL-STATS-MIB?
ALTIGA-GENERAL-STATS-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB from Altiga Networks, later acquired by Cisco and rebranded as the Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrator, a dedicated IPsec/L2TP VPN gateway appliance. It exposes general system-level statistics including CPU utilization, active VPN session counts, aggregate throughput, and system time/timezone settings. It is explicitly used to monitor hardware and software health of the concentrator: high CPU utilization signals processing overload, active session counts track concurrent VPN tunnel load, and throughput gauges reveal traffic bottlenecks or unexpected drops. The module's terminology (AVP, L2TP, LAC, LNS) shows a clear dependency on Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol concepts and complements other Altiga/Cisco VPN 3000 MIBs covering per-tunnel statistics. It is typically deployed in remote-access or site-to-site VPN environments where operators need real-time visibility into concentrator load and capacity. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the ALTIGA-GENERAL-STATS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco/Altiga VPN 3000 Series Concentrator
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would poll alGeneralGaugeCpuUtil and alGeneralGaugeActiveSessions together to correlate rising CPU load with concurrent VPN session count, helping decide when to add concentrator capacity. alGeneralGaugeThroughput would be tracked over time to spot traffic spikes or a sudden drop indicating a WAN or tunnel failure. alGeneralTime and alGeneralTimeZone are checked to confirm the appliance's clock is synchronized, which matters for accurate session logging. The altigaGeneralStatsMibConformance and altigaGeneralStatsMibCompliances objects are conformance statements rather than pollable runtime data.
What Can Be Monitored
- CPU utilization
- active VPN session count
- aggregate throughput
- system time and timezone
Imported Objects
From ALTIGA-GLOBAL-REG
| alGeneralMibModule | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From ALTIGA-MIB
| alGeneralGroup | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
| alStatsGeneral | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| NOTIFICATION-GROUP | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Counter32 | |
| Gauge32 | |
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
OIDs
RFC description
Provides general statistics and performance counters for Altiga VPN and tunneling appliances.
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