CADANT-CMTS-TOPO-MIB

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Organization: Arris International, Inc.

Last Updated: 2014-02-24

Category: DOCSIS and Cable, Vendor: ARRIS

Description: Manages network topology discovery and cable plant topology information on ARRIS/Cadant CMTS platforms.

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What Is CADANT-CMTS-TOPO-MIB?

CADANT-CMTS-TOPO-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB from ARRIS/Cadant for the C4 CMTS platform, covering cable plant topology discovery, specifically fiber node status in a DOCSIS HFC (hybrid fiber-coax) network. It exposes operational status and modem-state-transition counters per fiber node, tracking how many cable modems in that node are in various registration/provisioning phases. Its monitoring value is centered on hardware/network topology health: cadFiberNodeOperStatus reports the operational state of a fiber node, while counters like cadFiberNodeNumInitRanging, cadFiberNodeNumRangingComplete, cadFiberNodeNumStartDhcpv4, and cadFiberNodeNumDhcpv4Complete reveal whether cable modems attached to that node are successfully progressing through ranging and DHCP provisioning or getting stuck. It is proprietary to Cadant's CMTS topology model but conceptually aligned with DOCSIS cable modem registration state machines. It is deployed by cable operators to pinpoint plant-level (fiber node) provisioning problems affecting groups of subscriber modems. Engineers can download the CADANT-CMTS-TOPO-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • ARRIS/Cadant C4 CMTS

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cadFiberNodeStatusTable/cadFiberNodeStatusEntry to check cadFiberNodeOperStatus for each fiber node, and if it shows degraded, compare cadFiberNodeNumInitRanging against cadFiberNodeNumRangingComplete to see whether cable modems on that node are stalling during initial ranging (indicating an RF/plant issue). A sudden gap between cadFiberNodeNumStartDhcpv4 and cadFiberNodeNumDhcpv4Complete would reveal DHCPv4 provisioning failures isolated to modems on a specific fiber node, helping narrow a plant outage to a physical segment rather than a CMTS-wide problem.

What Can Be Monitored

  • fiber node operational status
  • cable modems in initial ranging
  • cable modems with ranging complete
  • modems starting DHCPv4/DHCPv6
  • modems completing DHCPv4/DHCPv6 provisioning
Imported Objects

From CADANT-CMTS-LAYER2CMTS-MIB

cadIfMacDomainIfIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From CADANT-PRODUCTS-MIB

cadTopologyOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CADANT-TC

PrimaryState

From CLAB-TOPO-MIB

clabTopoFiberNodeCfgEntryOBJECT-TYPE
clabTopoFiberNodeCfgNodeNameOBJECT-TYPE

From DOCS-IF3-MIB

ChSetId
IfDirection
docsIf3DsChSetEntryOBJECT-TYPE
docsIf3MdNodeStatusEntryOBJECT-TYPE
docsIf3UsChSetEntryOBJECT-TYPE

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
InterfaceIndexOrZero

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeInterval
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Manages Cadant CMTS topology information including fiber node status and channel set relationships.

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