CIENA-WS-PM-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Ciena Corporation

Last Updated: 2017-07-07

Category: Network Monitoring (RMON), Optical and WDM, Vendor: Ciena

Description: Provides optical and Ethernet performance monitoring counters on Ciena WaveServer platforms.

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What Is CIENA-WS-PM-MIB?

CIENA-WS-PM-MIB is a Ciena-specific performance-monitoring MIB for the WaveServer optical transport platform, part of Ciena's packet-optical product line. It exposes performance-monitoring configuration and history-persistence state, including admin state of PM collection, the persistence interval, storage location, and current bin-save/file-size state. Its purpose is monitoring: it lets an operator confirm whether PM collection is administratively enabled, how often data is persisted, and how full or current the stored PM history file is -- effectively health-of-monitoring status for the optical/Ethernet performance subsystem. Ciena's PM model follows general ITU-T/telecom PM bin conventions common across optical transport MIBs, though no explicit external MIB import is indicated here. It is deployed on Ciena WaveServer platforms in DWDM/optical transport networks where continuous, persisted performance history is required for optical and Ethernet interfaces. Engineers can download the CIENA-WS-PM-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CIENA-WS-PM-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 Waveserver optical transport platform

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cwsPmGlobalConfigAdminState in cwsPmGlobalConfigTable/cwsPmGlobalConfigEntry to confirm PM collection is enabled, and check cwsPmGlobalConfigPersistenceInterval and cwsPmGlobalConfigPersistenceStorageLocation to see how often and where bins are saved. Monitoring cwsPmPersistenceStateTable's cwsPmPersistenceStateCurrentFileSize and cwsPmPersistenceStateNextHistoryBinSave would reveal whether the persistence file is approaching capacity or the next scheduled bin save is overdue, indicating a stalled PM subsystem.

What Can Be Monitored

  • PM collection admin state
  • PM persistence interval
  • PM storage location
  • current persistence file size
  • next history bin save time

This MIB depends on

Related MIBs

Imported Objects

From CIENA-WS-MIB

cienaWsConfigOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CIENA-WS-TYPEDEFS-MIB

ChannelsNumber
Decimal1Dig
Decimal3Dig
EnabledDisabledEnum
StringMaxl32
StringMaxl64
StringSci

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cwsPmExtendedCurrentStatisticsFrameErrorRatio OID:

Select a Ciena Waveserver optical transport 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 cwsPmExtendedCurrentStatisticsFrameErrorRatio 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 rMON frame error ratio. 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 between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Ciena Waveserver performance monitoring MIB tracking interface counters, TX/RX statistics, and optical layer metrics.

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