CISCO-GGSN-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2012-05-04

Category: Cisco Devices, Mobile IP, Telephony and VoIP

Description: Provides management objects for monitoring and configuring the Cisco GPRS Gateway Support Node (GGSN) including PDP context statistics.

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What Is CISCO-GGSN-MIB?

CISCO-GGSN-MIB is a Cisco Systems proprietary MIB managing GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node) devices, the mobile-core network element that provides interworking between a GPRS/UMTS packet-switched radio network and external IP networks such as the Internet. Its objects count GTP signaling messages sent/received/unexpected, GTP-U data PDUs (G-PDUs) and octets sent/received (with high-capacity 64-bit counters for high-throughput GGSNs), PDP context activation outcomes (created, deleted, network-initiated, rejected for out-of-resource/version-mismatch/malformed-message/missing-or-incorrect-IE reasons), PPP-regeneration PDP counts, and TFT/packet-filter semantic and syntactic error counts. As a performance/protocol-status MIB it lets a mobile operator watch PDP context creation/rejection rates and GTP error counts as leading indicators of GGSN capacity or signaling problems affecting subscriber data sessions. It is deployed on Cisco GGSN mobile-core gateway platforms. Mobile-network engineers researching cisco ggsn gateway gprs support node deployments use this MIB to monitor PDP session health on Cisco's GGSN platform specifically.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-GGSN-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 mobile-core gateway platforms

Monitoring Examples

A mobile operator monitors cGgsnOutOfResourcePdps and cGgsnActivationRejectedPdps to catch a Cisco GGSN approaching its PDP context capacity before it starts rejecting new subscriber data sessions.

What Can Be Monitored

  • PDP context activation/rejection counts
  • GTP signaling and data (G-PDU) counters
Imported Objects

From CISCO-GTP-MIB

cGtpPathAddressOBJECT-TYPE
cGtpPathAddressTypeOBJECT-TYPE
cGtpPathPortOBJECT-TYPE

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-TC

CiscoAlarmSeverity
CiscoInetAddressMask

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndexOrZero
ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressDNS
InetAddressPrefixLength
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 cGgsnSentSigMessages 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 cGgsnSentSigMessages into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. The number of GTPv0 and GTPv1 signalling messages sent. 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 packets), 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

Vendor-private MIB for Cisco GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node); manages packet data gateway functions for 3G/mobile networks.

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