CISCO-IPSEC-PROVISIONING-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

All MIBsCISCO-IPSEC-PROVISIONING-MIB

Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2005-11-02

Category: Cisco Devices, VPN and Security

Description: Manages IPsec tunnel provisioning including crypto maps, transform sets, and security association parameters.

Start monitoring vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, any SNMPv3-capable network device (SNMP engine identity/boot/clock status) with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor. Import MIBs, browse SNMP OIDs, create custom SNMP monitors, configure alerts, and monitor any SNMP-enabled network device from a single console.

What Is CISCO-IPSEC-PROVISIONING-MIB?

CISCO-IPSEC-PROVISIONING-MIB is a Cisco enterprise MIB for provisioning and managing IPsec-based VPN tunnels on Cisco routers and security appliances, as defined by the RFC 2401-2411 IPsec framework. It exposes configuration data for crypto transform sets, security association lifetimes (time and byte-based), and idle timeouts used to build IPsec tunnels. In monitoring terms it is used primarily to check the software configuration status of VPN tunnels rather than hardware health — an operator can verify that transform-set parameters, tunnel lifetime/lifesize thresholds, and idle-timeout settings are correctly applied and consistent across peers. It has an explicit dependency on CISCO-IKE-CONFIGURATION-MIB, since Internet Key Exchange (IKE) must be configured before IPsec security associations can be negotiated. It is typically deployed on Cisco VPN routers, firewalls, and concentrators in enterprise or service-provider networks where site-to-site or remote-access IPsec tunnels are provisioned and audited via SNMP. Engineers can download the CISCO-IPSEC-PROVISIONING-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-IPSEC-PROVISIONING-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 VPN router
  • Cisco security appliance/firewall
  • Cisco VPN concentrator

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll cipsIPsecXformSetTable/cipsIPsecXformSetEntry to inventory configured transform sets, checking cipsXformSetEncryptionXform, cipsXformSetIntegrityXformEsp, and cipsXformSetIntegrityXformAh to confirm the encryption and integrity algorithms match corporate security policy. Polling cipsTunnelLifetime, cipsTunnelLifesize, and cipsTunnelIdleTimeout reveals whether SA rekey intervals are set too long (a security risk) or too short (causing excessive rekey churn). A mismatch between cipsXformSetSuite entries on two VPN peers would show up as a configuration anomaly explaining failed tunnel negotiation.

What Can Be Monitored

  • IPsec transform set configuration
  • encryption/integrity algorithm suite
  • tunnel lifetime (time-based)
  • tunnel lifesize (byte-based)
  • tunnel idle timeout
  • compression transform settings
Imported Objects

From CISCO-IPSEC-TC

CIPsecCryptomapType
CIPsecDiffHellmanGrp
CIPsecEncapMode
CIPsecLifesize
CIPsecLifetime
CIPsecNumCryptoMaps
CIPsecSecuritySuite
CIPsecTransform
CIPsecTunnelIdleTime

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Configures and monitors IPsec VPN tunnels, transform sets, and cryptomaps on Cisco routers.

Start monitoring Cisco VPN router/security appliance/concentrator with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor. Import MIBs, browse SNMP OIDs, create custom SNMP monitors, configure alerts, and monitor any SNMP-enabled network device from a single console.

Download CISCO-IPSEC-PROVISIONING-MIB