CISCO-FC-MGMT-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2002-09-12

Category: Cisco Devices, Fibre Channel and Storage

Description: Provides comprehensive Fibre Channel SAN management objects for monitoring fabric topology, name server, and port statistics on Cisco MDS platforms.

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What Is CISCO-FC-MGMT-MIB?

CISCO-FC-MGMT-MIB is a Cisco Fibre Channel storage-networking MIB, adapted from the IETF IPS working group's fcmgmt-mib draft, used on Cisco MDS SAN switches and directors. It exposes fabric-level management data such as FC instance identity (WWN, fabric ID, functions supported), switch inventory, and name-server/topology information for Fibre Channel fabrics. It is squarely a hardware/software status MIB: cfcmInstanceStatus reports whether an FC instance is operationally up, cfcmInstancePhysicalIndex and cfcmInstanceSoftwareIndex tie the FC instance back to the chassis's physical and software inventory (letting an admin correlate FC health with a specific supervisor or line card and its running image), and cfcmSwitchTable tracks per-switch fabric membership. It depends on IETF conventions from the draft-ietf-ips-fcmgmt-mib specification and cross-references entity-style physical/software indexing (ENTITY-MIB-like structure) for hardware correlation. It is typically deployed on Cisco MDS 9000-series SAN directors/switches to give storage administrators fabric-wide visibility alongside their FCIP and zoning management tools. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-FC-MGMT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-FC-MGMT-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 MDS Fibre Channel SAN switches and directors

Monitoring Examples

An admin polling cfcmInstanceTable/cfcmInstanceEntry can read cfcmInstanceWwn and cfcmInstanceFabricId to confirm which fabric a given FC instance belongs to, and cfcmInstanceStatus to detect an instance that has dropped out of the fabric unexpectedly. Cross-referencing cfcmInstancePhysicalIndex and cfcmInstanceSoftwareIndex against entity/software inventory tables lets the admin pinpoint which supervisor module and firmware version is behind a faulty FC instance. cfcmSwitchTable is useful for auditing which switches currently participate in a given fabric, revealing unexpected fabric merges or splits.

What Can Be Monitored

  • FC instance operational status
  • FC instance WWN
  • fabric ID membership
  • FC instance supported functions
  • physical/software index correlation
  • switch table fabric membership
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoExperimentOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cfcmPortBBCreditZeros OID:

Select a Cisco MDS Fibre Channel SAN switch or director 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 cfcmPortBBCreditZeros 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. The number of transitions in/out of the buffer-to-buffer credit zero state. 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 Counter64-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

Fibre Channel management for Cisco devices providing monitoring of FC-attached storage and fabric management.

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