CISCO-APS-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, inc

Last Updated: 2001-12-26

Category: Cisco Devices, Optical and WDM

Description: Manages SONET/SDH Automatic Protection Switching (APS) groups on Cisco optical interfaces.

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What Is CISCO-APS-MIB?

CISCO-APS-MIB manages SONET/SDH Automatic Protection Switching (APS) — also known as Multiplex Section Protection (MSP) — on Cisco optical transport interfaces, allowing configuration and monitoring of linear APS protection groups that provide automatic failover between working and protection optical circuits. Its general categories of data, per standard APS MIB conventions, include protection-group configuration (working/protect interface assignments, switching mode) and status (which circuit is currently active, switch requests, and failure conditions). Functionally it is a faults/status MIB for optical transport hardware: it is used to detect when an APS group has switched from its working to protection circuit — indicating a fiber cut, transceiver failure, or signal-quality problem on the primary path — and to confirm protection switching is functioning correctly for high-availability optical links. It is explicitly grounded in the Telcordia GR-253-CORE SONET standard and the ITU-T G.783 SDH MSP standard, modeling concepts defined by those external telecom standards rather than inventing Cisco-only semantics. It is deployed on Cisco optical/SONET-SDH interfaces in carrier and enterprise networks requiring protected, high-availability optical transport links. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-APS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • Cisco optical/SONET-SDH transport equipment

Monitoring Examples

No specific object or table names were available in this excerpt, so exact OID names cannot be cited; however, a MIB of this kind is typically polled via a protection-group table that reports the currently active line (working vs. protect) and the reason for the last switch event, letting an operator detect an automatic protection switch caused by a fiber cut or signal degradation on the primary SONET/SDH circuit.

What Can Be Monitored

  • APS protection group state (working vs protect)
  • protection switch requests/reason
  • line/section defect conditions triggering switchover
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoExperimentOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
transmission

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
OIDs

RFC description

SONET linear Automatic Protection Switching configuration and management.

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