CISCO-ISCSI-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: IETF IPS Working Group

Last Updated: 2002-10-05

Category: Cisco Devices, Fibre Channel and Storage

Description: Manages iSCSI target and initiator configuration, sessions, connections, and storage access statistics.

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What Is CISCO-ISCSI-MIB?

CISCO-ISCSI-MIB is a Cisco Systems build of the standard IETF IPS (IP Storage) Working Group iSCSI Protocol MIB, reporting iSCSI instance, session, and portal statistics on Cisco storage-networking equipment. Its instance-attributes table, keyed by index, records description, min/max supported version, vendor ID/version, portal/node/session counts, session-failure count and last-failure type/remote-node-name, while a session-error-statistics table records digest/connection-timeout/format error counts, and a portal-attributes table records row status, roles, and address type. As a status/performance MIB it lets a storage administrator watch iSCSI session-failure counts and diagnose digest or connection-timeout errors on Cisco iSCSI gateway equipment. It is deployed on Cisco Systems iSCSI-capable storage-networking equipment. Engineers can download the CISCO-ISCSI-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-ISCSI-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 Systems iSCSI-capable storage-networking equipment

Monitoring Examples

A storage administrator checks cIscsiInstSsnFailures and cIscsiInstSsnDigestErrors to diagnose recurring iSCSI session drops on Cisco storage-networking equipment.

What Can Be Monitored

  • iSCSI session failures and error statistics
Imported Objects

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

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

From SNMPv2-TC

AutonomousType
RowPointer
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cIscsiInstSsnFailures OID:

Select a Cisco iSCSI-capable storage-networking equipment 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 cIscsiInstSsnFailures 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 counts the number of times a session belonging to this instance has been failed. 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 between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Manages iSCSI (SCSI over TCP) protocol operations and connections on Cisco storage networking devices.

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Download CISCO-ISCSI-MIB