CISCO-FLOW-MONITOR-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2009-04-08

Category: Cisco Devices, Network Monitoring (RMON)

Description: Provides management objects for configuring NetFlow/flexible flow monitoring, including flow records, exporters, and monitors on Cisco platforms.

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What Is CISCO-FLOW-MONITOR-MIB?

CISCO-FLOW-MONITOR-MIB is a Cisco proprietary MIB that models flow-monitoring entities -- hardware or software components that classify, collect, and analyze traffic flows, with particular emphasis on real-time media/video streams. It exposes data about configured flow monitors, their capabilities, the number of flows currently tracked, and alarm conditions raised against those flows. It is used to monitor the software/operational status of flow-monitoring features on a device, primarily surfacing performance and fault data such as active flow counts and critical/major alarm counts rather than classic hardware health metrics. It works closely with companion Cisco flow-monitoring MIBs such as CISCO-IP-CBR-METRICS-MIB, which supply the detailed per-flow quality metrics a flow monitor's alarms are based on. It is typically deployed on Cisco routers/switches carrying video or voice traffic where administrators need visibility into media-flow quality and fault conditions. Because its flow-monitor tables and alarm objects can be dense, administrators often load CISCO-FLOW-MONITOR-MIB into a MIB Browser to explore the object tree before scripting automated polling.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-FLOW-MONITOR-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 Catalyst 9300 Series (2017) — current-generation access switch line, actively supported with Flexible NetFlow records/exporters/monitors through IOS XE 17.x
  • Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series — current-generation core/distribution switch line with Flexible NetFlow support

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cfmFlowMonitorTable/cfmFlowMonitorEntry, keyed by cfmFlowMonitorId, to see cfmFlowMonitorFlowCount (how many flows the monitor is tracking) alongside cfmFlowMonitorAlarmSeverity, cfmFlowMonitorAlarmCriticalCount, and cfmFlowMonitorAlarmMajorCount. A rising cfmFlowMonitorAlarmCriticalCount would indicate a growing number of monitored media flows are breaching quality thresholds defined in cfmFlowMonitorConditions. cfmFlowMonitorCaps describes which monitoring capabilities (e.g., loss, jitter) that particular monitor instance supports.

What Can Be Monitored

  • active flow count
  • flow monitor capabilities
  • alarm severity
  • critical alarm count
  • major alarm count
Imported Objects

From CISCO-FLOW-MONITOR-TC-MIB

FlowBitRateUnits
FlowIdentifier
FlowMetricPrecision
FlowMetricScale
FlowMetricValue
FlowMetrics
FlowMonitorAlarmGroupIdentifier
FlowMonitorConditionIdentifier
FlowMonitorConditions
FlowMonitorConditionsProfile
FlowMonitorConditionsProfileOrZero
FlowMonitorIdentifier
FlowPointIdentifier
FlowPointType
FlowSetIdentifier

From CISCO-REPORT-INTERVAL-TC-MIB

ReportIntervalCount

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-TC

CiscoAlarmSeverity
Layer2Cos

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber

From Q-BRIDGE-MIB

VlanId

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Gauge32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

AutonomousType
RowPointer
TimeStamp
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Cisco NetFlow and flexible NetFlow monitoring management objects.

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