CIENA-WS-PORT-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Ciena Corporation

Last Updated: 2017-07-07

Category: Network Interfaces, Optical and WDM, Vendor: Ciena

Description: Manages client and line port configuration and status on Ciena WaveServer optical platforms.

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What Is CIENA-WS-PORT-MIB?

CIENA-WS-PORT-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB for Ciena's WaveServer optical transport platform, modeling the physical and logical ports through which client (customer-facing) and line (DWDM network-facing) optical signals pass. It exposes inventory and identity data (port name, description, type, interface type, MAC address) as well as port state information for both client and line ports, which the system auto-creates and maps together via services and service-domains. Its primary monitoring value is hardware/software status tracking of optical port health: administrators use it to confirm port operational/administrative state, verify correct port-to-service mapping, and detect ports that have gone down or been misconfigured. It complements Ciena's broader WaveServer MIB family and likely aligns its interface typing with standard IANAifType conventions. Typical deployment is in metro or long-haul DWDM transport networks where WaveServer boxes provide coherent optical transponder/muxponder functionality and NMS systems poll port state to ensure client services remain mapped to healthy line-side wavelengths. Engineers can download the CIENA-WS-PORT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CIENA-WS-PORT-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 query cwsPortPortsTable (cwsPortPortsEntry, keyed by cwsPortPortsPortId) together with cwsPortIdTable (cwsPortIdName, cwsPortIdDescription, cwsPortIdPortType, cwsPortIdMacAddress, cwsPortIdInterfaceType) to inventory every client and line port and confirm its type and identity. Polling cwsPortStateTable reveals whether a given port is up, down, or in an abnormal state, which would surface a line-side optical fault or a client port that lost its automatic service mapping. This is a data-bearing configuration/status MIB rather than a pure conformance module, so real-time polling of port state is a normal monitoring activity.

What Can Be Monitored

  • client port status
  • line port status
  • port type and interface type
  • port MAC address
  • port-to-service mapping state
  • port administrative/operational state
Imported Objects

From CIENA-WS-MIB

cienaWsConfigOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CIENA-WS-TYPEDEFS-MIB

Decimal1Dig
DescriptionString
EnabledDisabledEnum
MacString
PortId
PortName
ServiceDomainIdx
ServiceIdx
XcvrType

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 cwsPortCurrentFrameErrorRatio 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 cwsPortCurrentFrameErrorRatio 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

Port configuration and operational data for Ciena Waveserver optical transport equipment.

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