CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2011-03-18

Category: Cisco Devices, Hardware and Environment

Description: Monitors and configures the administrative and operational status of field-replaceable units (FRUs) such as power supplies and line cards listed in the ENTITY-MIB.

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

What Is CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB?

CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB manages and monitors Field Replaceable Units (FRUs) on Cisco hardware, such as power supplies, fans, processor modules, and interface modules that appear in the Entity MIB's entPhysicalTable. It exposes configuration data (administrative control of FRUs) and operational status data (power redundancy mode, current draw, power status). This MIB is squarely a hardware-health monitoring MIB: it directly reports power supply group redundancy mode and operational mode, total available versus drawn current, non-redundant-power reasons, and per-FRU administrative/operational power status, making it central to detecting power supply or redundancy failures before they cause an outage. It has a clear and notable dependency on the standard ENTITY-MIB (RFC 2737), whose entPhysicalTable indexes the FRUs this MIB manages. It is deployed across the full range of modular Cisco routers and switches with field-replaceable power supplies, fans, and line cards. Operators monitoring power-supply, fan, and line-card health across a chassis fleet commonly reference the cisco-entity-fru-control-mib documentation when mapping FRU alerts back to specific entPhysicalTable indices.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-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 routers
  • Cisco modular switches

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cefcFRUPowerSupplyGroupTable/cefcFRUPowerSupplyGroupEntry to check cefcPowerRedundancyOperMode against the configured cefcPowerRedundancyMode, and compare cefcTotalDrawnCurrent to cefcTotalAvailableCurrent to see how much power headroom remains. If cefcPowerNonRedundantReason becomes non-empty while cefcFRUPowerStatusTable shows a power supply's cefcFRUPowerAdminStatus as up but its operational status degraded, that indicates a failed or missing redundant power supply requiring replacement.

What Can Be Monitored

  • power supply redundancy mode
  • total available vs. drawn current
  • power supply admin/operational status
  • non-redundant power reason
  • FRU inline current draw
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From ENTITY-MIB

entPhysicalClassOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalContainedInOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalModelNameOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalNameOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalVendorTypeOBJECT-TYPE

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cefcPowerNonRedundantReason OID:

Select a Cisco modular routers/switch (Field Replaceable Units) 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 cefcPowerNonRedundantReason 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 object has the value of notApplicable(1) when cefcPowerRedundancyOperMode of the instance does not have the value of nonRedundant(4). 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 an INTEGER-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the value is 'mismatchedSupplies' or 'supplyError', since those indicate a hardware fault rather than an expected single-supply or not-applicable configuration. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Cisco Entity FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) Control MIB for managing physical components, power supplies, and fans on Cisco equipment

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