CISCO-GSLB-SYSTEM-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2011-06-06

Category: Cisco Devices, Web and Application Servers

Description: Provides management objects for monitoring system-level status, resources, and operation of the Cisco Global Site Selector (GSS) appliance.

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What Is CISCO-GSLB-SYSTEM-MIB?

This is a Cisco vendor MIB for the Global Site Selector (GSS) appliance, a Global Server Load Balancer (GSLB) device that directs DNS-based traffic to the least-loaded or most-proximate resource; the MIB covers system-level status, resource information, GSLB node/peer status, and proximity statistics. It exposes networked-node identity and status data, peer GSS device relationships and reachability, and DNS-related proximity metrics used in load-balancing decisions. It is strongly monitoring-oriented for both software service status and system health — cgsNodeStatus reveals whether a GSS node is operating correctly, and the cgsPeerTable lets an administrator confirm that all peer GSS appliances in a distributed GSLB deployment are reachable and correctly identified, which is critical since a lost peer can degrade global load-balancing accuracy. It defines its own notifications (ciscoGslbSystemMIBNotifs) for GSLB-specific fault conditions and works alongside standard Cisco system/interface MIBs for underlying hardware health. It is typically deployed in multi-datacenter environments running Cisco GSS appliances to provide DNS-based global server load balancing and disaster-recovery failover, where CISCO-GSLB-SYSTEM-MIB SNMP monitoring helps confirm peer GSS nodes stay reachable across sites.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-GSLB-SYSTEM-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 Global Site Selector (GSS) appliance

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll cgsNodeStatus and cgsNodeLocation/cgsNodeRegion to confirm a given GSS node is healthy and correctly identifies its site, then walk cgsPeerTable/cgsPeerEntry to check cgsPeerAddress and cgsPeerDnsName for each peer GSS device — a peer entry that stops updating or shows a down status would indicate a lost peering relationship, degrading the accuracy of proximity-based DNS responses across the GSLB deployment.

What Can Be Monitored

  • GSLB node status
  • node location/region
  • peer GSS device reachability
  • peer DNS name/address
  • proximity statistics
Imported Objects

From CISCO-GSLB-TC-MIB

CiscoGslbNodeServices
CiscoGslbPeerStatus

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndexOrZero

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressDNS
InetAddressType

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-MIB

sysNameOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI

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

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
StorageType
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cgsProxEchoSentReqs OID:

Select a Cisco Global Site Selector (GSS) appliance (legacy) 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 cgsProxEchoSentReqs into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. This object indicates the number of DRP echo requests sent by GSLB to all probed devices. 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 requests), 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

Manages Global Server Load Balancer (GSLB) network and system information including device status, peer interactions, and proximity statistics.

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