CISCO-IETF-PW-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2004-03-17

Category: Cisco Devices, Pseudowire

Description: Manages pseudowire emulation edge-to-edge (PWE3) connections over MPLS and IP transport networks.

IPNetwork Monitor uses several OIDs from this MIB in network discovery and polling the applicable devices. Start monitoring CISCO-IETF-PW-MIB with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor.

What Is CISCO-IETF-PW-MIB?

CISCO-IETF-PW-MIB is a Cisco implementation of the IETF pseudowire emulation edge-to-edge (PWE3) draft standard, part of the MPLS/carrier-Ethernet transport technology area. It defines managed objects for configuring and monitoring pseudowire connections that emulate a Layer 2 circuit over an MPLS or IP packet-switched network, including PW type, encapsulation, and state. Because pseudowires are software-defined transport constructs, this module is primarily about monitoring software/service status rather than physical hardware: PW operational/administrative state, up/down transitions, and VC-type-specific parameters that reveal service faults. It has an explicit dependency, deferring VC-type-specific detail to companion PSN-specific and VC-specific MIBs (e.g. per the referenced pwe3-framework and l2circuit-trans-mpls drafts) that share its index structure. It is typically deployed on Cisco provider-edge routers delivering Layer 2 VPN / pseudowire services across an MPLS core, where engineers load the CISCO-IETF-PW-MIB module into their network management system to track pseudowire health alongside the companion PSN- and VC-specific MIBs.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-IETF-PW-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 ASR 9001 — compact chassis in the ASR 9000 series, current flagship MPLS/pseudowire provider-edge router

Monitoring Examples

No sample runtime objects were provided for this module in the supplied data, so a concrete polling scenario cannot be grounded in real object names here; in general use an operator would monitor per-pseudowire administrative/operational status and VC-type-specific counters to detect a pseudowire that has gone down or is flapping between PSN and attachment circuit, using the shared index into the PSN-specific and VC-specific tables described in the module.

What Can Be Monitored

  • pseudowire operational state
  • pseudowire administrative state
  • VC type configuration
  • PSN-specific pseudowire parameters
Imported Objects

From CISCO-IETF-PW-TC-MIB

CpwGroupID
CpwOperStatus
CpwVcIDType
CpwVcIndexType
CpwVcType

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoExperimentOBJECT-IDENTITY

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32
experimental

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
StorageType
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cpwVcTimeElapsed OID:

Select a Cisco ASR 9001 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 cpwVcTimeElapsed 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. It reports how many seconds have elapsed in the pseudowire's current 15-minute performance-measurement interval. 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 an Integer32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the value is stuck at the same number across repeated polls — since it normally cycles from 1 to 900 every 15 minutes by design, a stalled value indicates the pseudowire has stopped collecting statistics. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

See also: cpwVcUpTime

OIDs

RFC description

Cisco implementation of Pseudowire (PW) management MIB for monitoring MPLS Pseudowires and virtual circuits as defined in IETF standards.

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