CISCO-EPC-GATEWAY-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2012-02-08

Category: Cisco Devices, Mobile IP, Telephony and VoIP

Description: Provides management objects for monitoring and configuring the Cisco Evolved Packet Core (EPC) gateway in LTE mobile networks.

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What Is CISCO-EPC-GATEWAY-MIB?

CISCO-EPC-GATEWAY-MIB is a Cisco-specific MIB for the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) mobile network architecture, covering the PDN Gateway (PGW) and Serving Gateway (SGW) functions used in LTE networks. It exposes congestion-control statistics, buffer-management counters, and notification objects related to GTP tunnel and packet-flow processing on the gateway. The MIB is aimed at monitoring software/system health under load: it surfaces congestion threshold crossings, dropped incoming requests due to congestion, and detailed buffer lifecycle counters (created, deleted, timed out, enqueued/dequeued packets and bytes, rejections due to memory shortage) that reveal resource exhaustion or performance degradation on the gateway. As an EPC-specific MIB it is closely tied to 3GPP mobile-core concepts (GTP, S5/S1-U interfaces) and complements other Cisco mobility MIBs covering GTP and session state. The CISCO-EPC-GATEWAY-MIB MIB is deployed on Cisco ASR/StarOS-based platforms functioning as PGW/SGW nodes in mobile operator core networks, where telemetry on congestion and buffer health is critical to subscriber data-plane performance.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-EPC-GATEWAY-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/StarOS-based PDN Gateway (PGW) / Serving Gateway (SGW) platforms (LTE Evolved Packet Core)

Monitoring Examples

An operator's NMS would poll cegCongestionHighThresholdReached and cegCongestionLowThresholdReached to detect when the gateway enters or exits a congestion state, correlating spikes with cegCongestionIncomingReqDrops to quantify dropped session requests. Tracking cegBufferRejMemUnavailable and cegBufferRejLowMem against cegBuffersCreated/cegBuffersDeleted would reveal memory pressure causing buffer allocation failures before it escalates to dropped subscriber traffic. Comparing cegBufferPacketsEnqueued/cegBufferPacketsDequeued and the corresponding byte counters over time helps identify a backed-up queue indicative of a downstream bottleneck.

What Can Be Monitored

  • congestion threshold state (low/high)
  • dropped incoming requests due to congestion
  • buffer creation/deletion counts
  • buffer timeouts
  • enqueued/dequeued packets and bytes
  • buffer allocation rejections due to memory shortage
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

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

From SNMPv2-TC

TimeInterval
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cegCongestionIncomingReqDrops OID:

Select a Cisco ASR/StarOS gateway platform 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 cegCongestionIncomingReqDrops into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. This object represents the total number of incoming calls dropped at the gateway. 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 between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Manages PDN Gateway (PGW) and Serving Gateway (SGW) functions in Evolved Packet Core (EPC) architecture for LTE networks.

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