CISCO-DSP-MGMT-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2015-05-12

Category: Cisco Devices, Telephony and VoIP

Description: Manages DSP resources on Cisco voice gateways and routers, monitoring channel utilization, codec assignments, and DSP farm status.

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What Is CISCO-DSP-MGMT-MIB?

This MIB manages Digital Signal Processor (DSP) resources on Cisco voice gateways and routers, which handle functions like transcoding, conferencing, and DTMF processing for voice traffic. It exposes a card status table tracking DSP card state, resource utilization, historical high-water utilization, last reset time, and maximum channels per DSP, plus aggregate counts of total, failed, and congested DSPs across the system. This MIB is explicitly built for monitoring hardware status, DSP card state, failure counts, congestion, and reset history, as well as software-level resource utilization, making it valuable for detecting voice-processing capacity exhaustion or DSP hardware failures. It is a Cisco-specific extension with no dependency on external standard MIBs, focused purely on the DSPFarm voice architecture. It is deployed on Cisco voice gateways and integrated services routers handling VoIP transcoding, conferencing, and voice termination. Engineers can download the CISCO-DSP-MGMT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-DSP-MGMT-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 voice gateway
  • Cisco Integrated Services Router with DSP/DSPFarm voice modules

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll cdspCardStatusTable entries, checking cdspCardState and cdspCardResourceUtilization per DSP card (cdspCardIndex) to detect overloaded or failed hardware. cdspFailedDsp and cdspCongestedDsp give system-wide counts revealing capacity problems affecting call quality, while cdspCardLastResetTime and cdspCardLastHiWaterUtilization help correlate a card reset with a prior utilization spike. cdspDspSwitchOverThreshold indicates the configured threshold at which DSP resources fail over, useful for capacity planning.

What Can Be Monitored

  • DSP card state
  • DSP resource utilization
  • failed/congested DSP counts
  • card last reset time
  • DSP switchover threshold
Imported Objects

From CISCO-QOS-PIB-MIB

Percent

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From ENTITY-MIB

entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalNameOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

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

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus
StorageType
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cdspAlarms OID:

Select a Cisco voice gateway / ISR with DSP/DSPFarm voice module 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 cdspAlarms 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. The object indicates the accumulated number of DSP Alarms. 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

Cisco Digital Signal Processing (DSP) management MIB monitoring DSP resources, DSPFarm profiles, transcoding, and conferencing services on voice platforms.

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