CISCO-FIPS-STATS-MIB

Description: Provides management objects for monitoring FIPS 140 cryptographic compliance statistics on Cisco security appliances and routers.

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CISCO-FIPS-STATS-MIB is a small Cisco vendor-specific MIB that reports the outcome of the FIPS 140 power-up self-test performed by Cisco security appliances and routers operating in FIPS-compliant mode. Its sole data object, cfipsPostStatus, is a single scalar under cfipsStatsGlobal that returns one of running, passed, failed, or notAvailable, reflecting whether the device's cryptographic module successfully completed its mandatory power-on self-test. Despite its narrow scope, this status is operationally important: a failed or stuck-running value means the device's cryptographic subsystem did not initialize correctly and the platform may not be operating in a FIPS-approved state, which can silently break IPsec/TLS session establishment on security-sensitive deployments. It depends on the underlying platform's FIPS 140 cryptographic module implementation and is only meaningful on Cisco hardware configured for FIPS mode; administrators load CISCO-FIPS-STATS-MIB into a MIB Browser to confirm cfipsPostStatus reads passed after a reboot.

An operator polls cfipsPostStatus immediately after a FIPS-mode device reboots; a returned value of failed instead of passed indicates the cryptographic self-test did not complete successfully and the device should not be trusted to handle FIPS-approved traffic until investigated.

Monitors Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) power-up self-test status on Cisco devices.