CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2008-12-05

Category: Cisco Devices

Description: Monitors memory pool statistics across all physical entities (line cards, route processors) with utilization data at 1-minute, 5-minute, and 10-minute intervals.

IPNetwork Monitor uses several OIDs from this MIB in network discovery and polling the applicable devices. Start monitoring CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor.

What Is CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB?

CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB monitors memory pool statistics across all physical entities on a managed Cisco system, such as route processors and line cards, extending earlier memory-pool MIBs with support for multiple historical intervals. It exposes cempMemPoolTable, giving per-entity, per-pool-type memory statistics including used, free, largest-free, and lowest-free-watermark values, indexed against the entity's identity. This is a direct hardware/software resource-health MIB: it lets an operator monitor memory (RAM) utilization on individual cards and processors, catching memory leaks, fragmentation (via cempMemPoolLargestFree shrinking), or low-memory conditions before they cause instability or crashes. It depends on ENTITY-MIB, since cempMemPoolTable entries are indexed by the physical entity index defined there. It is deployed across Cisco routers and switches with modular/multi-card chassis to track memory health per line card and route processor over 1-, 5-, and 10-minute intervals, making cisco-enhanced-mempool-mib a standard reference for that kind of resource-health tracking.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-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 modular router
  • Cisco modular switch with line cards/route processors
  • Cisco modular routers and switches (route processors and line cards)

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cempMemPoolTable/cempMemPoolEntry per cempMemPoolIndex to track cempMemPoolUsed versus cempMemPoolFree for each cempMemPoolName (e.g., processor memory, I/O memory) on every physical entity, watching cempMemPoolLowestFree for a downward trend indicating a slow memory leak. A shrinking cempMemPoolLargestFree despite stable cempMemPoolFree would reveal memory fragmentation on a specific line card. This lets operators identify a card headed toward an out-of-memory condition well before it actually fails.

What Can Be Monitored

  • memory used per pool
  • memory free per pool
  • largest free memory block
  • lowest free memory watermark
  • memory pool type and name per entity
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From ENTITY-MIB

entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From HCNUM-TC

CounterBasedGauge64

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

AutonomousType
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cempMemPoolAllocHit OID:

Select a Cisco modular router 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 cempMemPoolAllocHit 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. Indicates the number of successful allocations from the memory pool. 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

Monitors memory pool usage and statistics across all physical entities on Cisco managed systems.

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