CISCO-ENTITY-QFP-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2014-06-18

Category: Cisco Devices, Hardware and Environment

Description: Monitors Cisco Quantum Flow Processor (QFP) ASIC utilization, packet processing statistics, and forwarding engine performance.

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What Is CISCO-ENTITY-QFP-MIB?

This MIB monitors Cisco's Quantum Flow Processor (QFP), a proprietary packet-forwarding ASIC architecture used in Cisco routing platforms, listed in ENTITY-MIB's entPhysicalTable as a CPU-class entity. It exposes system-level state and load information (ceqfpSystemState, traffic direction, load count/time) and a utilization table (ceqfpUtilizationTable) with algorithms for 5-second, 1-minute, 5-minute, and 60-minute utilization averages. This MIB is explicitly used to monitor the hardware/software processing load status of the forwarding engine, analogous to CPU load monitoring but specific to the QFP ASIC responsible for packet forwarding, helping detect forwarding-plane congestion distinct from route-processor CPU load. It explicitly builds on ENTITY-MIB (RFC 4133), since QFP entities are represented there as a physical entity of class 'cpu'. It is deployed on Cisco ASR and ISR routing platforms that use QFP-based forwarding architecture. Engineers can download the CISCO-ENTITY-QFP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-ENTITY-QFP-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 ASR/ISR routers with Quantum Flow Processor (QFP) forwarding ASIC

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll ceqfpSystemState and ceqfpSystemTrafficDirection to confirm the QFP forwarding engine is operational, and check ceqfpUtilizationTable entries using the five-second/one-minute/five-minute/sixty-minute utilization algorithms to detect sustained forwarding-plane overload. ceqfpNumberSystemLoads and ceqfpSystemLastLoadTime help correlate a recent QFP microcode reload with subsequent performance changes, useful when diagnosing a forwarding-capacity issue on a high-throughput router.

What Can Be Monitored

  • QFP system state
  • traffic direction
  • QFP utilization (5-sec/1-min/5-min/60-min)
  • system load count
  • last load time
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From ENTITY-MIB

entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From HCNUM-TC

CounterBasedGauge64

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using ceqfpNumberSystemLoads OID:

Select a Cisco ASR/ISR routers with Quantum Flow Processor (QFP) 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 ceqfpNumberSystemLoads 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 represents the number of times the QFP is loaded, since the QFP 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, 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 Quantum Flow Processor (QFP) statistics on Cisco systems including utilization, memory, and performance metrics.

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