CIENA-CES-DATAPLANE-MIB

Description: Monitors and manages the data plane forwarding engine on Ciena CES Carrier Ethernet switches.

Start monitoring vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, any SNMPv3-capable network device (SNMP engine identity/boot/clock status) with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor. Import MIBs, browse SNMP OIDs, create custom SNMP monitors, configure alerts, and monitor any SNMP-enabled network device from a single console.

CIENA-CES-DATAPLANE-MIB is a Ciena-proprietary MIB for managing the data plane forwarding engine on Ciena's Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) platform, explicitly stated to cover the CN5410 model. It exposes configuration objects for traffic-shaping and metering profiles, including meter profile color modes used in traffic policing/coloring (e.g., for MEF/CoS enforcement), queue scheduler shaper overspeed settings, and profile-based objects for policy feature groups (PFG) and Layer 2 classification/filtering (L2 CFT). This MIB is primarily a configuration and performance-policy monitoring tool: administrators use it to verify that QoS/traffic-shaping profiles are correctly applied to the forwarding hardware, which affects how traffic is policed, colored, and scheduled, and can reveal misconfiguration causing unexpected traffic drops or non-compliant CoS marking. As a Ciena hardware-specific MIB tied to the CN5410's forwarding ASIC, it has no significant dependency on IETF standard MIBs. It is deployed on Ciena CN5410 Carrier Ethernet switches in service-provider Carrier Ethernet networks where MEF-style traffic profiles and QoS policies must be enforced and verified at the data-plane level, and engineers configuring these switches typically start with a CIENA-CES-DATAPLANE-MIB download to load it into their MIB browser.

An administrator would check cienaCesDpTsMeterProfileColorMode to confirm which color-marking mode a traffic meter profile is using, which affects how out-of-profile traffic is treated downstream. The cienaCesDpTsQSchedulerProfileShaperOverSpeed object reveals whether a queue's shaper is configured to allow a burst above its nominal rate, useful for diagnosing unexpected traffic bursts or under-shaping on a given service. Reviewing cienaCesDpPfgProfile and cienaCesDpL2CftProfile settings lets an operator verify the correct policy feature group and Layer 2 classification/filtering profile are bound to a service, catching a misapplied profile that would explain traffic being incorrectly classified or dropped.

Manages Ciena CES dataplane configuration, monitoring forwarding paths, ports, and logical port mapping.