CISCO-CONTENT-SERVICES-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2012-11-09

Category: Cisco Devices, Web and Application Servers

Description: Manages Cisco Content Services devices, covering virtual server configurations, real server health, and content switching policies.

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What Is CISCO-CONTENT-SERVICES-MIB?

CISCO-CONTENT-SERVICES-MIB manages Cisco Content Services devices (content switches/CSS/CSM-class products) that inspect IP/TCP/UDP headers and payload to enable content-based switching and usage-based billing. It exposes global configuration for billing mediation agent (BMA) and Quota Manager timers, per-server alarm thresholds, and real-server response-time and protocol-parsing failure thresholds, along with associated notifications. It supports monitoring of both software service health and real-server (backend) health: ccsNetServerResponseFailAlarmThreshold and ccsNetServerResponseTimeFailAlarmThreshold flag when a real server is responding too slowly or not at all, while ccsProtocolParseFailAlarmThreshold flags content-parsing failures indicating a software/protocol issue. It works alongside standard IF-MIB/host interface data for the underlying content switch hardware. It is deployed in data centers using Cisco Content Services switches for load-balanced application delivery with usage billing, and administrators typically open a CISCO-CONTENT-SERVICES-MIB MIB Browser session to review the threshold and billing-timer objects.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-CONTENT-SERVICES-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 Content Services switch (CSS/CSM-class device)

Monitoring Examples

An admin would monitor ccsNetServerResponseFailAlarmThreshold and ccsNetServerFirstPayloadResponseTime against real-server response times to detect a backend web/application server that has become slow or unresponsive behind the content switch. Watching ccsProtocolParseFailAlarmThreshold-triggered alarms reveals malformed traffic the content switch's protocol parser cannot process. ccsGlobalCfgTable settings like ccsgcBMALostRecordTimer show whether billing records are being lost due to a BMA connectivity issue.

What Can Be Monitored

  • real-server response failure alarms
  • real-server response time thresholds
  • protocol parse failure alarms
  • billing/quota manager record timers
  • user threshold alarms
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From ENTITY-MIB

entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From HCNUM-TC

CounterBasedGauge64

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber

From MPLS-VPN-MIB

MplsVpnId

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeInterval
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using ccsgsGTPBMARejected OID:

Select a Cisco Content Services switch (CSS/CSM-class device) 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 ccsgsGTPBMARejected 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 messages received from all the BMAs with reject cause code. 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 between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Manages content billing and quota enforcement based on IP/TCP/UDP header and payload inspection.

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