CISCO-ENTITY-PERFORMANCE-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2014-06-18

Category: Cisco Devices, Hardware and Environment

Description: Monitors utilization and throughput performance metrics for Cisco physical entity components such as line cards and processors.

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What Is CISCO-ENTITY-PERFORMANCE-MIB?

CISCO-ENTITY-PERFORMANCE-MIB extends the standard IETF ENTITY-MIB (RFC 4133) to provide performance monitoring for any physical entity listed in entPhysicalTable, such as line cards, processors, or other hardware modules, across current, 1-minute, 5-minute, and 15-minute measurement intervals. It exposes utilization statistics, input/output packet and byte rate data, reload counters and last-reload timestamps, plus configurable rising/falling thresholds with notification enable flags. This MIB is directly a hardware performance and stability monitoring tool: cepEntityNumReloads and cepEntityLastReloadTime reveal how often and when a component has restarted (a key hardware/software stability indicator), while cepConfigRisingThreshold/cepConfigFallingThreshold with cepConfigThresholdNotifEnabled let an operator get proactively alerted when a card's or processor's utilization crosses defined bounds. It explicitly extends the IETF ENTITY-MIB and relies on entPhysicalTable for identifying which physical component each performance entry describes. It is deployed across Cisco routers and switches with modular hardware (line cards, supervisor engines, ASICs) where per-component performance visibility is needed. Engineers can download the CISCO-ENTITY-PERFORMANCE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-ENTITY-PERFORMANCE-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 routers and switches with modular hardware (line cards, processors, supervisor engines)

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cepEntityTable (via cepEntityEntry) to check cepEntityNumReloads and cepEntityLastReloadTime for a given line card, then examine cepConfigTable entries (keyed by cepConfigInterval and cepConfigPerfType) to see configured cepConfigRisingThreshold values for utilization. A line card whose cepEntityNumReloads increments unexpectedly, or whose utilization crosses cepConfigRisingThreshold with cepConfigThresholdNotifEnabled set, would trigger a notification indicating that component is overloaded or unstable and warrants investigation before it fails outright.

What Can Be Monitored

  • component utilization
  • input/output packet/byte rates
  • reload count
  • last reload time
  • rising/falling performance thresholds
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From ENTITY-MIB

entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

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

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cepEntityNumReloads OID:

Select a Cisco routers/switches with modular hardware (line cards, supervisors) 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 cepEntityNumReloads 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 provides the number of times the entity is reloaded, since the entity host is up. 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 (in reloads), 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 performance monitoring MIB for physical entities, tracking performance metrics and notifications for hardware components.

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