CISCO-CDMA-AHDLC-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2005-11-14

Category: Cisco Devices, Telephony and VoIP

Description: Monitors the Async HDLC layer used in Cisco CDMA PDSN equipment for mobile packet data framing statistics.

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What Is CISCO-CDMA-AHDLC-MIB?

CISCO-CDMA-AHDLC-MIB manages the Asynchronous HDLC (AHDLC) layer used in Cisco CDMA Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) equipment, part of Cisco's 3G mobile wireless packet data infrastructure. It exposes an engine table describing AHDLC engine type, channel capacity and current channel usage, and per-engine administrative and operational state, along with notification enablement for engine-down events. It directly supports hardware/software status monitoring: cCdmaAhdlcEngineOperState and cCdmaAhdlcEngineAdminState reveal whether an AHDLC engine is up, and cCdmaAhdlcEngineChannelsInUse versus cCdmaAhdlcEngineMaxChannels shows channel capacity exhaustion on the framing hardware/software. It ties into the physical interface index (cCdmaAhdlcPhysicalIndex) referencing the standard IF-MIB ifTable. It is deployed on Cisco PDSN routers/gateways in CDMA2000 mobile carrier networks handling radio-to-IP packet data framing. Engineers can download the CISCO-CDMA-AHDLC-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-CDMA-AHDLC-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 PDSN (Packet Data Serving Node)

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll cCdmaAhdlcEngineTable, keyed by cCdmaAhdlcEngineIndex, checking cCdmaAhdlcEngineOperState against cCdmaAhdlcEngineAdminState to detect an engine that is administratively up but operationally down. Comparing cCdmaAhdlcEngineChannelsInUse to cCdmaAhdlcEngineMaxChannels or cCdmaAhdlcEngineConfMaxChannels reveals when an engine is near its channel capacity, risking call/session setup failures. cCdmaAhdlcEngineDownNotifEnabled configuration determines whether a trap fires when an engine transitions down.

What Can Be Monitored

  • AHDLC engine operational/admin state
  • channel utilization vs max channels
  • engine-down notification enablement
  • engine type and physical interface mapping
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-TC

EntPhysicalIndexOrZero

From RMON2-MIB

ZeroBasedCounter32

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Gauge32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cCdmaAhdlcEngineChannelsInUse OID:

Select a Cisco PDSN (Packet Data Serving Node) 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 cCdmaAhdlcEngineChannelsInUse 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 current active channels handled by this engine. 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 Gauge32-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, 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

Manages CDMA asynchronous HDLC interface parameters and statistics on Cisco wireless access platform equipment; Cisco-private.

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