CISCO-CIPCMPC-MIB

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Organization: cisco IBU Engineering Working Group

Last Updated: 1999-01-25

Category: Cisco Devices, SNA and Legacy Protocols

Description: Monitors the MPC (Multipath Channel) component of the Cisco Channel Interface Processor for IBM mainframe connectivity.

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What Is CISCO-CIPCMPC-MIB?

CISCO-CIPCMPC-MIB is a Cisco enterprise MIB for managing the Multi-Path Channel (MPC) feature on Cisco Mainframe Channel Connection (CMCC) cards within the Channel Interface Processor (CIP), used to connect IBM mainframes to IP/SNA networks over ESCON/FICON channels. It exposes administrative and operational subchannel tables describing channel path, device address, transport group (TG) name, direction, and TG transport type, along with operational state and buffer-related counters for each subchannel. Its monitoring role centers on hardware/software channel-path health: cipCmpcSubChannelOperState reveals whether a mainframe channel subchannel is up, down, or in an error condition, and cipCmpcSubChannelOperMaxbfru tracks buffer resource usage that can signal channel congestion. It is tightly coupled to Cisco's SNA/APPN and High Performance Routing (HPR) technology stack running on CMCC hardware, an IBM mainframe channel-connectivity-specific dependency. It is deployed in IBM mainframe data centers where a Cisco CIP/CMCC card bridges SNA/HPR traffic between mainframes and an IP network, and a CISCO-CIPCMPC-MIB download provides the object definitions needed to monitor that channel path.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-CIPCMPC-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 CIP/CMCC mainframe channel connection card
  • IBM mainframe channel-attached environment

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll cipCmpcSubChannelOperTable/cipCmpcSubChannelOperEntry to check cipCmpcSubChannelOperState for a subchannel identified via the corresponding cipCmpcSubChannelAdminTable entry's cipCmpcSubChannelAdminDevice and cipCmpcSubChannelAdminTgName. A subchannel stuck in a non-operational state while its administrative row (cipCmpcSubChannelAdminRowStatus) shows active would indicate a hardware or channel-path fault between the mainframe and the CMCC card. cipCmpcSubChannelOperMaxbfru trending upward over time could signal buffer exhaustion under heavy HPR traffic load.

What Can Be Monitored

  • subchannel operational state
  • subchannel administrative configuration
  • transport group name/direction
  • buffer resource usage (maxbfru)
Imported Objects

From CISCO-CHANNEL-MIB

cipCardDtrBrdIndexOBJECT-TYPE
cipCardEntryIndexOBJECT-TYPE
cipCardSubChannelIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From CISCO-CIPCSNA-MIB

ChannelDevice
ChannelPath

From CISCO-CIPTG-MIB

ChannelTgName

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC1213-MIB

ifIndex

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TDomain
TimeStamp

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cipCmpcTgStatsConnectReqs OID:

Select a Cisco CIP/CMCC mainframe channel connection card (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 cipCmpcTgStatsConnectReqs 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 connect requests received from the host by this CMPC TG. 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, 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

Multi-Path Channel (CMPC) feature management for Cisco mainframe channel connection cards.

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