CIENA-CES-BENCHMARK-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Ciena, Inc

Last Updated: 2016-10-14

Category: Network Monitoring (RMON), Vendor: Ciena

Description: Provides benchmarking and performance measurement objects for Ciena CES Carrier Ethernet switches.

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What Is CIENA-CES-BENCHMARK-MIB?

CIENA-CES-BENCHMARK-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB from Ciena for its Carrier Ethernet Solutions (CES) platforms that manages RFC 2544 and ITU-T Y.1564 service-benchmark testing, confirming the hint's description of it as a performance/benchmarking module. It exposes test configuration through cienaCesBenchmarkProfileTable and cienaCesBenchmarkEntityTable, EMIX traffic-mix definitions via cienaCesBenchmarkEmixFrameSizeTable/cienaCesBenchmarkEmixSequenceTable, and live/historical results through cienaCesBenchmarkGenTestSessionThroughputResultsTable, cienaCesBenchmarkGenTestSessionFramelossResultsTable, cienaCesBenchmarkGenTestSessionLatencyResultsTable, and cienaCesBenchmarkGenTestSessionPdvResultsTable, tracked per cienaCesBenchmarkTestInstanceTable/cienaCesBenchmarkTestInstanceStatsTable. It depends on CIENA-SMI (cienaCesConfig, cienaCesStatistics) and CIENA-GLOBAL-MIB for common severity and MAC-address types, and it fires notifications such as cienaCesBenchmarkTestStarted/Stopped/Completed and KPI-failure traps (cienaCesBenchmarkTestFailedThroughputKpi, cienaCesBenchmarkTestFailedFramelossKpi, cienaCesBenchmarkTestFailedLatencyKpi, cienaCesBenchmarkTestFailedPdvKpi) when a benchmark run fails its target metrics. It is deployed on Ciena CES Carrier Ethernet switches used for service-turnup and SLA validation in carrier/metro Ethernet networks, and administrators can download the CIENA-CES-BENCHMARK-MIB file to load it into their MIB browser when automating service-acceptance testing.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CIENA-CES-BENCHMARK-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • Ciena CES (Carrier Ethernet Solutions) switches

Monitoring Examples

An operator starts an RFC 2544 test via cienaCesBenchmarkTestInstanceTable and watches for a cienaCesBenchmarkTestCompleted notification, then reads cienaCesBenchmarkGenTestSessionThroughputResultsTable for the achieved rate; a cienaCesBenchmarkTestFailedThroughputKpi trap firing instead would indicate the circuit failed to sustain its committed information rate during the benchmark run.

What Can Be Monitored

  • benchmark test profile/entity configuration
  • EMIX traffic-mix frame-size distribution
  • throughput/frame-loss/latency/PDV test results
  • test instance run state and statistics
  • test start/stop/completion notifications
  • KPI-failure trap notifications
Imported Objects

From CIENA-GLOBAL-MIB

cienaGlobalMacAddressOBJECT-TYPE
cienaGlobalSeverityOBJECT-TYPE

From CIENA-SMI

cienaCesConfigOBJECT-IDENTITY
cienaCesNotificationsOBJECT-IDENTITY
cienaCesStatisticsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressPrefixLength
InetAddressType

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
MacAddress
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cienaCesBenchmarkEntityStatsEntryPortTxBytes OID:

Select a Ciena CES (Carrier Ethernet Switch) platform as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type cienaCesBenchmarkEntityStatsEntryPortTxBytes into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. It reports the number of bytes transmitted by the benchmark port. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter64-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline, since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Ciena service benchmark MIB for RFC2544/Y1564 testing including throughput, frame loss, latency, and performance measurement.

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