CIENA-CES-TACACS-CLIENT-MIB

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Organization: Ciena Corp.

Last Updated: 2017-06-07

Category: RADIUS and AAA, Vendor: Ciena

Description: Configures and monitors TACACS+ authentication client on Ciena CES Carrier Ethernet switches.

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What Is CIENA-CES-TACACS-CLIENT-MIB?

CIENA-CES-TACACS-CLIENT-MIB is a Ciena enterprise MIB that configures and monitors the TACACS+ authentication client on Ciena CES Carrier Ethernet switches, used for centralized AAA (authentication, authorization, accounting) of administrative access. It exposes objects for TACACS+ server configuration (addresses, shared keys, timeouts) and client-side operational status. Its monitoring value is in confirming that the switch can successfully reach and authenticate against configured TACACS+ servers, which is a software/service-availability concern rather than hardware health, and helps detect authentication outages that could lock administrators out of device management. It functions as a vendor-specific complement to the general TACACS+ protocol rather than an IETF standard MIB. It is deployed wherever centralized AAA policy enforcement is required for administrative access to Ciena CES switches. Engineers can download the CIENA-CES-TACACS-CLIENT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • Ciena Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES)

Monitoring Examples

No object names were supplied in the source data, but a typical use would be polling TACACS+ server reachability/response status and authentication success/failure counters to confirm the configured AAA servers are responsive, alerting operators if the client falls back to a local or secondary authentication method due to server unavailability.

What Can Be Monitored

  • TACACS+ server reachability
  • authentication success/failure status
  • configured server addresses and timeouts
Imported Objects

From CIENA-GLOBAL-MIB

cienaGlobalMacAddressOBJECT-TYPE
cienaGlobalSeverityOBJECT-TYPE

From CIENA-SMI

cienaCesStatisticsOBJECT-IDENTITY
cienaCommonOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CIENA-TC

CienaGlobalState
CienaStatsClear

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

TACACS+ client authentication and authorization configuration for Ciena CES systems.

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