CISCO-ALPS-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2008-02-14

Category: Cisco Devices, SNA and Legacy Protocols, Telephony and VoIP

Description: Manages ALPS (Airline Protocol Support) for SNA-based airline reservation system connectivity on Cisco routers.

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What Is CISCO-ALPS-MIB?

CISCO-ALPS-MIB supports ALPS (Airline Protocol Support), a legacy Cisco feature that carries SNA-based airline reservation-system traffic, including Airline X.25 (AX.25), over IP between router pairs acting as ALPS gateways. Its data covers configuration (peer IP/port, keepalive timers, retry counts, call-accept flags) and status (remote peer connection state). It is primarily a connectivity/software-session-status MIB: tracking whether the ALPS peer sessions carrying critical reservation-system traffic are established, since a down peer session represents an outage of that legacy application path. It is explicitly built on legacy protocols referenced in its description (AX.25, EMTOX, ASCU), a niche, protocol-specific dependency. It is deployed on legacy Cisco routers at airline/travel-industry sites still relying on SNA-based reservation systems tunneled over IP, typically beginning with a CISCO-ALPS-MIB download to load its object definitions into a MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-ALPS-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

  • Cisco router configured for ALPS/SNA airline reservation traffic

Monitoring Examples

alpsRemPeerTable, keyed by peer IP and port, exposes alpsRemPeerState, letting an operator confirm whether a given ALPS peer connection to a remote router is up; a state stuck at connecting rather than connected indicates the SNA reservation-traffic path between sites is down. alpsPeerKeepaliveTimeout and alpsPeerKeepaliveMaxRetries can be checked to confirm the configured tolerance before a peer is declared down, helping distinguish a transient blip from a genuine peer failure.

What Can Be Monitored

  • ALPS remote peer connection state
  • peer keepalive timeout/retry settings
  • peer IP address and port
  • call-accept configuration
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1382-MIB

X121Address

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeInterval
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using alpsRemPeerConnOutPackets OID:

Select a Cisco router (ALPS/SNA airline traffic, legacy) 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 alpsRemPeerConnOutPackets 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 the number of packets transmitted on this ALPS remote peer connection. 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 Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline (in packets), since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Airline Protocol Support (ALPS) for managing AX.25 protocol encapsulation over TCP/IP on Cisco routers.

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