CISCO-FABRIC-C12K-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2002-09-20

Category: Cisco Devices, Hardware and Environment

Description: Provides management objects for monitoring the switch fabric components of the Cisco 12000 (GSR) series router chassis.

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What Is CISCO-FABRIC-C12K-MIB?

CISCO-FABRIC-C12K-MIB manages the internal switch fabric of the Cisco 12000 series (GSR) router chassis, an NxN non-blocking crossbar architecture connecting line cards through a central scheduler. It exposes configuration objects for fabric mode and scheduler settings along with per-link state tables describing the health of each fabric-to-fabric and fabric-to-line-card connection. The MIB is squarely focused on monitoring hardware status: it reports fabric link state, grant/request cell counts, and FIFO occupancy that reveal congestion, link failures, or scheduler malfunctions inside the chassis backplane. It is a Cisco-proprietary MIB specific to the c12000 fabric architecture and has no dependency on general IETF standards. It is deployed exclusively on Cisco 12000/GSR series core routers, where CISCO-FABRIC-C12K-MIB SNMP monitoring gives operators visibility into internal fabric card health.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-FABRIC-C12K-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 12000 series (GSR) routers

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cfcGenericFabToFabTable, indexed per fabric-to-fabric connection, reading cfcGenericFabToFabState to confirm each internal link is up, alongside cfcGenericFabToFabGrantPEs and cfcGenericFabToFabRequestPEs to check for balanced cell scheduling. A persistent mismatch between granted and requested PEs, or a nonzero cfcGenericFabToFabCellFifoPEs backlog, would indicate fabric congestion or a failing crossbar path. The related cfcGenericFabFrFabTable exposes similar state for fabric-card-to-line-card links, useful for isolating a faulty card.

What Can Be Monitored

  • fabric configuration mode
  • master scheduler state
  • fabric-to-fabric link state
  • grant/request cell counts
  • cell FIFO occupancy
  • fabric card link state
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-TC

EntPhysicalIndexOrZero

From ENTITY-MIB

PhysicalIndex
entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalNameOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cfcGenericFabToFabGrantPEs OID:

Select a Cisco 12000 series (GSR) router (legacy) 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 cfcGenericFabToFabGrantPEs 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. It reports the count of parity errors detected by the ToFabFIA on the grant lines to SCA. 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 fabric entities, configuration, and statistics for Cisco GSR C12000 series routers.

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