All MIBs › CIENA-WS-ENCRYPTION-RPC-MIB
Organization: Ciena Corporation
Last Updated: 2017-02-13
Category: Optical and WDM, VPN and Security, Vendor: Ciena
Description: Provides RPC-style operations for encryption key exchange on Ciena WaveServer optical platforms.
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What Is CIENA-WS-ENCRYPTION-RPC-MIB?
CIENA-WS-ENCRYPTION-RPC-MIB is a Ciena WaveServer optical transport platform MIB that exposes RPC-style SNMP operations for managing datapath encryption, specifically activating encryption and clearing/resetting security parameters (CSP) on encrypted line connections. Rather than continuous telemetry, it defines action objects — activation triggers plus result/status objects recording the outcome of the last invoked operation — placing it in the security/configuration-action category. For status purposes it confirms whether an administrative security action succeeded, via cwsEncryptionRPCClearCSPLastReturnCode and cwsEncryptionRPCClearCSPLastFailureReason, and records when the action last ran via LastActivation timestamps — a security-operations audit trail rather than classic sensor telemetry. It is Ciena WaveServer-specific and depends on the platform's underlying encryption/security subsystem rather than external standard MIBs. It is deployed on high-security optical transport links using Ciena WaveServer platforms where encrypted datapath connections need remote activation and verification via SNMP, and administrators can download the CIENA-WS-ENCRYPTION-RPC-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Ciena WaveServer optical transport platform
Monitoring Examples
An administrator triggers cwsEncryptionRPCEnableEncryptionActivate to enable encryption on a connection identified by cwsEncryptionRPCEnableEncryptionSnmpIndex, then polls cwsEncryptionRPCEnableEncryptionLastActivation to confirm when the action ran. If an operation fails, cwsEncryptionRPCClearCSPLastReturnCode and cwsEncryptionRPCClearCSPLastFailureReason reveal the failure code and reason after invoking cwsEncryptionRPCClearCSPActivate, letting an operator detect a failed security-parameter-clearing operation rather than assuming it silently succeeded.
What Can Be Monitored
- encryption activation status
- last activation timestamp for encryption operations
- last return code of clear-security-parameters operation
- last failure reason for clear-security-parameters operation
Imported Objects
From CIENA-WS-MIB
| cienaWsConfig | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| TimeStamp |
OIDs
RFC description
Vendor-private MIB for Ciena WaveServer platform defining encryption RPC (remote procedure call) operations and status.
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