CISCO-DOT11-QOS-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems Inc.

Last Updated: 2006-05-09

Category: Cisco Devices, Quality of Service, Wireless and WLAN

Description: Manages 802.11e QoS (WMM/WME) parameters on Cisco access points, configuring EDCA traffic categories and admission control.

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What Is CISCO-DOT11-QOS-MIB?

CISCO-DOT11-QOS-MIB is a Cisco vendor-specific MIB (registered under ciscoMgmt, replacing the older CISCO-IETF-DOT11-QOS-MIB and CISCO-IETF-DOT11-QOS-EXT-MIB) that implements Cisco's equivalent of the IEEE 802.11e QoS draft standard for wireless LAN access points, bridges, and switches. It models per-radio, per-traffic-class QoS configuration in cdot11QosConfigTable (contention window minimum/maximum, backoff offset, max retry count keyed by traffic class: background, bestEffort, video, voice), QoS support flags in cdot11QosSupportTable, per-queue size/quota in cdot11QosQueueTable, and transmission statistics such as cdot11QosDiscardedFrames, cdot11QosFails, and cdot11QosRetries. This is useful for monitoring whether QoS traffic prioritization (WMM/802.11e) is actually enabled and functioning on a Cisco AP's radios, and for diagnosing voice/video quality issues via discarded-frame and retry counters per traffic queue. It depends on ifIndex from IF-MIB to identify the underlying 802.11 radio interface and on CISCO-DOT11-IF-MIB for VLAN identifiers. Engineers standing up monitoring for Cisco wireless infrastructure can download the CISCO-DOT11-QOS-MIB file to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-DOT11-QOS-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 Wireless LAN Access Points, bridges, and switches

Monitoring Examples

An operator polls cdot11QosQueueSize and cdot11QosQueuePeakSize for the voice traffic class queue on a given radio interface, alongside cdot11QosDiscardedFrames; a queue consistently near its peak size combined with rising discarded-frame counts would indicate the AP's voice queue is congested and dropping time-sensitive traffic.

What Can Be Monitored

  • per-traffic-class contention window settings
  • QoS enabled/implemented flags per radio
  • per-queue size and peak size
  • discarded/failed/retried frame counters per queue
  • VLAN-to-traffic-class mapping
  • QoS configuration change notifications
Imported Objects

From CISCO-DOT11-IF-MIB

CDot11IfVlanIdOrZero

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

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

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cdot11QosQueuePeakSize OID:

Select a Cisco Wireless LAN access point, bridge, or switch 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 cdot11QosQueuePeakSize 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. This is the peak QoS priority queue size for this queue. 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 value climbs close to a level you consider a practical ceiling for this device, since a rising peak often signals sustained load growth worth planning capacity around. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Cisco 802.11 wireless QoS management MIB providing quality of service configuration for WLAN devices.

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