CISCO-FC-PM-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2005-02-06

Category: Cisco Devices, Fibre Channel and Storage

Description: Provides performance monitoring (PM) objects for Fibre Channel interfaces, tracking throughput, errors, and utilization on Cisco MDS platforms.

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What Is CISCO-FC-PM-MIB?

CISCO-FC-PM-MIB is a Cisco Fibre Channel performance-monitoring MIB used on Cisco MDS SAN switches to track 24-hour error and performance statistics for Fibre Channel and FICON interfaces, sampled every 15 minutes. It exposes performance-counter data such as link resets, offline sequences, and other FC-FS-defined error events, organized into current and historical (24-hour bucketed) tables. This is squarely a hardware/link performance monitoring MIB: it lets an operator track interface-level error rates and link stability over time to catch degrading optical links, flapping ports, or marginal cabling before they cause outages. It is explicitly grounded in the Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS) standard for its error definitions, and works alongside CISCO-FIBRECHANNEL-MIB for baseline FC interface data. It is deployed in SAN environments running Cisco MDS Fibre Channel/FICON switches where storage administrators need long-term performance-history visibility per port. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-FC-PM-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-FC-PM-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/FICON SAN switch

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll cfcpmPortPerfStatusTable/cfcpmPortPerfStatusEntry alongside cfcpmValidIntervals and cfcpmInvalidIntervals to confirm a full 15-minute sampling history is available for a port, then check cfcpmTotalPortErrorTable/cfcpmTotalPortErrorEntry for counters like cfcpmtPortRxLinkResets, cfcpmtPortTxLinkResets, and cfcpmtPortRxOfflineSequences. A steadily climbing cfcpmtPortLinkResets count on one FC port relative to its peers would indicate a failing SFP, dirty fiber connector, or marginal cable segment. cfcpmTimeElapsed tells the poller how far into the current 15-minute bucket the counters are.

What Can Be Monitored

FC port link resets (Rx/Tx)
FC port offline sequences (Rx/Tx)
24-hour interval error statistics
valid vs invalid measurement intervals
elapsed time in current interval

Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmt

OBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

ifIndex

OBJECT-TYPE

From PerfHist-TC-MIB

PerfCurrentCount
PerfIntervalCount
PerfTotalCount

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TruthValue

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
PER cfcpmcPortAddressErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.15	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received with unknown addressing in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortDelimiterErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.16	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of invalid frame delimiters received at this in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortEncDisparityErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.17	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of encoding disparity errors received at this port in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortFramesTooLong	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.13	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received at this port where the frame length was greater than what was agreed to in Fabric Login ( FLOGI )/ Port Login ( PLOGI )in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortInvalidCRCs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.11	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received with invalid CRC in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortInvalidOrderedSets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.12	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of invalid ordered sets received at this port in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortInvalidTxWords	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.10	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of invalid transmission words received at this port in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortLinkFailures	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.6	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of link failures in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortLinkResets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.3	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of times the reset link protocol was initiated on this port. This includes the number of Loop Initialization Primitive ( LIP ) events on an arbitrated loop port in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortOtherErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.18	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of times an undefined error has occurred in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortPrimSeqProtocolErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.9	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of primitive sequence protocol errors detected at this port in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortRxLinkResets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.1	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Link resets ( LR primitives ) received in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortRxOfflineSequences	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.4	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Offline Primitive Sequence ( OLS ) received at this port in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortSignalLosses	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.8	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of instances of signal loss detected at this port in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortSynchLosses	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.7	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of instances of synchronization loss detected at this port in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortTruncatedFrames	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.14	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received at this port where the frame length was less than the minimum indicated by the frame header in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortTxLinkResets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.2	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Link resets ( LR primitive ) transmitted in the current 15 minute interval.
PER cfcpmcPortTxOfflineSequences	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1.5	PerfCurrentCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Offline Primitive OLS transmitted by this port in the current 15 minute interval.
cfcpmCurrentPortErrorEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2.1		not-accessible	An entry in the FC Port Errors Current table for FC and FICON interfaces.
cfcpmCurrentPortErrorTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.2		not-accessible	The FC Current Port Errors table. This table contains various error statistics being collected for the current 15 minute interval.
cfcpmIntervalPortErrorEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1		not-accessible	An interval in the FC Port Errors Interval Table for FC and FICON interfaces.
cfcpmIntervalPortErrorTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3		not-accessible	The FC Interval Port Errors Table. An entry in this table contains various error statistics being collected for a particular 15 minute interval.
I32 cfcpmInvalidIntervals	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.1.1.1.3	Integer32	read-only	The number of intervals in the range from 0 to cfcpmValidIntervals for which no data is available. This object will typically be zero except in cases where the data for some intervals are not available (e.g., in proxy situations).
NUM cfcpmiPortAddressErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.16	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received with unknown addressing in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortDelimiterErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.17	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of invalid frame delimiters received at this port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortEncDisparityErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.18	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of encoding disparity errors received at this port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
U32 cfcpmiPortErrorIntervalNumber	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.1	Unsigned32	not-accessible	A unique identifier of the interval for which the set of statistics is available. The interval identified by 1 is the most recently completed 15 minute interval, and the interval identified by N is the interval immediately preceding the one identified by N-1.
NUM cfcpmiPortFramesTooLong	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.14	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received at this port where the frame length was greater than what was agreed to in FLOGI/PLOGI in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortInvalidCRCs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.12	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received with invalid CRC in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortInvalidOrderedSets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.13	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of invalid ordered sets received at this port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortInvalidTxWords	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.11	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of invalid transmission words received at this port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortLinkFailures	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.7	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of link failures in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortLinkResets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.4	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of times the reset link protocol was initiated on this port. This includes the number of Loop Initialization Primitive ( LIP ) events on an arbitrated loop port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortOtherErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.19	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of times an undefined error has occurred in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortPrimSeqProtocolErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.10	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of primitive sequence protocol errors detected at this port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortRxLinkResets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.2	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Link resets ( LR primitives ) received in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortRxOfflineSequences	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.5	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Offline Primitive OLS received at this port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortSignalLosses	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.9	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of instances of signal loss detected at this port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortSynchLosses	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.8	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of instances of synchronization loss detected at this port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortTruncatedFrames	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.15	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received at this port where the frame length was less than the minimum indicated by the frame header in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortTxLinkResets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.3	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Link resets ( LR primitive ) transmitted in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
NUM cfcpmiPortTxOfflineSequences	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.6	PerfIntervalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Offline Primitive OLS transmitted by this port in a particular 15 minute interval in the past 24 hours.
T/F cfcpmiPortValidData	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.3.1.20	TruthValue	read-only	This variable indicates if the data for this interval is valid.
cfcpmMandatoryGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.2.2.2			The collection of FC PM Total Mandatory objects.
cfcpmMibCompliance	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.2.1.1			The compliance statement for entities which implement the Cisco FC PM MIB.
cfcpmMibCompliances	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.2.1
cfcpmMibGroups	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.2.2
cfcpmOptionalGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.2.2.3			The collection of FC PM Optional objects.
cfcpmPortErrorStatusBlock	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2
cfcpmPortPerfStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.1
cfcpmPortPerfStatusEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.1.1.1		not-accessible	An entry in the FC Port Status table.
cfcpmPortPerfStatusTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.1.1		not-accessible	The FC Port Status table.
cfcpmPortStatusGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.2.2.1			The collection of FC PM Port Status Mandatory objects.
I32 cfcpmTimeElapsed	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.1.1.1.1	Integer32	read-only	The number of seconds, including partial seconds, that have elapsed since the beginning of the current measurement period. If, for some reason, such as an adjustment in the system's time-of-day clock, the current interval exceeds the maximum value, the agent will return the maximum value.
cfcpmTotalPortErrorEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1		not-accessible	An entry in the FC Port Errors Total table for FC and FICON interfaces.
cfcpmTotalPortErrorTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1		not-accessible	The FC Total Port Errors table. This table contains various error statistics being collected for the past 24 hours.
PER cfcpmtPortAddressErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.15	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received with unknown addressing aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortDelimiterErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.16	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of invalid frame delimiters received at this port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortEncDisparityErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.17	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of encoding disparity errors received at this port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortFramesTooLong	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.13	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received at this port where the frame length was greater than what was agreed to in FLOGI/PLOGI aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortInvalidCRCs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.11	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received with invalid CRC aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortInvalidOrderedSets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.12	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of invalid ordered sets received at this port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortInvalidTxWords	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.10	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of invalid transmission words received at this port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortLinkFailures	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.6	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of link failures aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortLinkResets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.3	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of times the reset link protocol was initiated on this port. This includes the number of Loop Initialization Primitive ( LIP ) events on an arbitrated loop port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortOtherErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.18	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of times an undefined error has occurred aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortPrimSeqProtocolErrors	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.9	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of primitive sequence protocol errors detected at this port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortRxLinkResets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.1	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Link resets ( LR primitives ) received aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortRxOfflineSequences	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.4	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Offline Primitive OLS received at this port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortSignalLosses	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.8	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of instances of signal loss detected at this port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortSynchLosses	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.7	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of instances of synchronization loss detected at this port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortTruncatedFrames	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.14	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of frames received at this port where the frame length was less than the minimum indicated by the frame header aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortTxLinkResets	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.2	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Link resets ( LR primitive ) transmitted aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
PER cfcpmtPortTxOfflineSequences	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.2.1.1.5	PerfTotalCount	read-only	The counter associated with the number of Offline Primitive OLS transmitted by this port aggregating the previous valid 15-minute measurement intervals.
I32 cfcpmValidIntervals	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1.1.1.1.2	Integer32	read-only	The number of previous 15-minute intervals for which data was collected. The value will be 96 unless the measurement was (re-)started within the last 24 hours, in which case the value will be the number of complete 15 minute intervals for which the agent has at least some data. In certain cases (e.g., in the case where the agent is a proxy) it is possible that some intervals are unavailable. In this case, this interval is the maximum interval number for which data is available.
ciscoFcPmMIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997			This MIB module defines 24 hour error statistics for Fibre Channel (FC) and FICON interfaces collected every 15 minutes. Based on errors described in Fibre Channel - Framing and Signaling (FC-FS) Draft Standard Web: ftp://ftp.t11.org/t11/pub/fc/fs/03-173v1.pdf .
ciscoFcPmMIBConform	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.2
ciscoFcPmMIBNotifs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.0
ciscoFcPmMIBObjects	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.99997.1

RFC description

Cisco vendor-private MIB for Fibre Channel performance monitoring and statistics collection.

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