CISCO-CHANNEL-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: cisco IBM engineering Working Group

Last Updated: 1998--0-1-

Category: Cisco Devices, SNA and Legacy Protocols

Description: Manages Cisco IBM channel interfaces, providing statistics and configuration for mainframe channel-attached router connections.

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What Is CISCO-CHANNEL-MIB?

CISCO-CHANNEL-MIB is a Cisco-specific module for managing Cisco Mainframe Channel Connection (CMCC) cards, hardware that attaches Cisco routers to IBM mainframe channel interfaces. It exposes per-card hardware inventory and channel connection data, including card identity, memory, CPU load, and CLAW channel configuration and statistics, alongside trap definitions for fault notification. It is explicitly a hardware/software health-monitoring MIB: cipCardEntryCpuUtilization and cipCardEntryFreeMemory/TotalMemory track processor and memory load on the card, cipCardEntryTimeSinceLastReset reports card uptime since restart, and the major/minor software and hardware revision fields report the running software and hardware versions. It depends on standard SNMPv2 conventions and sits alongside Cisco's broader IF-MIB/ENTITY-MIB instrumentation for the housing chassis. It is deployed specifically on Cisco routers equipped with CMCC channel cards bridging LAN/WAN networks to mainframe channel-attached environments, so the CISCO-CHANNEL-MIB MIB is only relevant to networks that still operate this legacy channel-attachment hardware.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-CHANNEL-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 with CMCC channel adapter

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll cipCardTable/cipCardEntry, watching cipCardEntryCpuUtilization and cipCardEntryFreeMemory to detect a channel card approaching resource exhaustion, and cipCardEntryTimeSinceLastReset to spot an unexpected card reboot. Comparing cipCardEntryMajorSwRevisionNr/MinorSwRevisionNr across cards after a firmware upgrade confirms all channel cards are running the intended software version. The cipCardClaw and cipCardTraps branches would be used to track CLAW-protocol connection statistics and to receive fault notifications for the channel interface.

What Can Be Monitored

  • card CPU utilization
  • free/total card memory
  • time since last card reset
  • software revision (major/minor)
  • hardware revision (major/minor)
  • CLAW channel statistics
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cipCardEntryCpuUtilization OID:

Select a Cisco router with a CMCC mainframe channel adapter 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 cipCardEntryCpuUtilization 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 average percentage of time this processor was busy over the last minute, including maintenance overhead. 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 an INTEGER-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if CPU utilization exceeds 85%, a common warning threshold before sustained high load affects card performance. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

See also: cipCardEntryFreeMemory

OIDs

RFC description

Manages Cisco Mainframe Channel Connection (CMCC) cards for IBM channel connections.

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