CISCO-GGSN-EXT-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2011-03-18

Category: Cisco Devices, Mobile IP, Telephony and VoIP

Description: Extends the CISCO-GGSN-MIB with additional objects for monitoring enhanced GPRS gateway functionality on Cisco GGSN platforms.

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What Is CISCO-GGSN-EXT-MIB?

CISCO-GGSN-EXT-MIB is a Cisco private enterprise MIB that extends CISCO-GGSN-MIB, adding objects for monitoring enhanced functionality of the Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), a core mobile-network element that provides IP routing and GPRS-specific interworking for mobile subscribers' PDP context sessions. It exposes performance and event counters around PDP context lifecycle management, including SGSN-initiated local deletions, PDP update request/response activity, Change of Authorization (CoA) message handling, and Direct Tunnel (DT) related PDP failures. Its monitoring role is centered on the software/session-processing health of the GGSN: rising counts of failed PDP updates, discarded CoA messages, or Direct-Tunnel update failures signal problems in mobile session continuity or signaling between the GGSN and SGSN, functioning as a service-status indicator for mobile data sessions rather than physical hardware health. It explicitly depends on and extends CISCO-GGSN-MIB, and implicitly on 3GPP GPRS/GTP protocol concepts. It is deployed in mobile carrier core networks on Cisco GGSN platforms handling GPRS/UMTS data sessions. Engineers can download the CISCO-GGSN-EXT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-GGSN-EXT-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 GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node) mobile core platforms

Monitoring Examples

An operator would track cGgsnExtSentPdpUpdateReqs against cGgsnExtRcvdSuccPdpUpdateResponses to compute the success rate of PDP context updates, with a widening gap indicating SGSN-side signaling problems. cGgsnExtRcvdCoaMsgs versus cGgsnExtDiscardedCoaMsgs reveals whether Change-of-Authorization messages (used for dynamic policy changes) are being processed or dropped by the GGSN. cGgsnExtNoWaitSgsnLocalDelPDPs and cGgsnExtNoReqSgsnLocalDelPDPs indicate how many PDP contexts were locally deleted by the SGSN without or without a delete request, which can reveal abnormal session teardown patterns, while cGgsnExtTotalDtUpdFailDeletedPDPs highlights Direct Tunnel update failures leading to session deletion.

What Can Be Monitored

  • PDP update requests sent vs. successful responses received
  • CoA messages received vs. discarded
  • SGSN-initiated local PDP deletions
  • Direct Tunnel update failures/error indications
  • error indication messages sent/received
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-TC

TimeIntervalMin

From HCNUM-TC

CounterBasedGauge64

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cGgsnExtNoWaitSgsnLocalDelPDPs OID:

Select a Cisco GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node) 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 cGgsnExtNoWaitSgsnLocalDelPDPs into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. This object indicates the total number of PDPs deleted in GGSN without waiting for a delete context response from the SGSN. 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 sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline (in PDP Context), 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

Extends CISCO-GGSN-MIB to manage Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) devices for mobile network interworking and PDP context sessions.

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