CISCO-MEGACO-EXT-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2006-08-29

Category: Cisco Devices, Telephony and VoIP

Description: Extends H.248/Megaco media gateway control protocol management with Cisco-specific attributes and statistics.

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What Is CISCO-MEGACO-EXT-MIB?

CISCO-MEGACO-EXT-MIB is a Cisco enterprise MIB extending the CISCO-IETF-MEGACO-MIB to add Cisco-specific attributes for devices implementing the ITU-T H.248/MEGACO media gateway control protocol. It exposes gateway configuration objects (media gateway controller group and IP address indices, association ID, maximum contexts and terminations per context) alongside performance-timing counters for message-exchange responsiveness between the media gateway (MG) and controller (MGC). Its monitoring value is centered on software/protocol performance status: administrators use it to track how long the gateway and controller take to execute commands and provisioning requests, and how many connection retries occur, which together reveal signaling delays or instability in the H.248 control relationship that could disrupt voice/media gateway service. It explicitly depends on and extends the CISCO-IETF-MEGACO-MIB, importing its base gateway and context object model. It is deployed on Cisco media gateways and gateway controllers in VoIP/PSTN gateway environments using H.248/Megaco signaling, where the CISCO-MEGACO-EXT-MIB MIB gives operators visibility into gateway-controller responsiveness.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-MEGACO-EXT-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 media gateway/media gateway controller (H.248/Megaco)

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cmedxGatewayConfigTable/cmedxGatewayConfigEntry keyed by cmedxGatewayMgcGroupIndex and cmedxGatewayIpAddressIndex to check cmedxGatewayMaxContexts and cmedxGatewayMaxTermsInContext against actual call volume, watching for capacity exhaustion. cmedxGatewayMgExecTime and cmedxGatewayMgcExecTime reveal whether the gateway or the controller side is responsible for slow command processing, while cmedxGatewayNumConnRetries climbing indicates the MG-MGC association is unstable. cmedxGatewayProvisionRespTime would be checked when troubleshooting slow termination provisioning during call setup.

What Can Be Monitored

  • gateway/controller command execution time
  • provisioning response time
  • connection retry count
  • max contexts and terminations per context
  • MGC group/association identity
Imported Objects

From CISCO-ATM-TRUNK-MIB

Counter32SinceReset

From CISCO-IETF-MEGACO-MIB

cmedGatewayConfigEntryOBJECT-TYPE
cmedGatewayIdOBJECT-TYPE
cmedGatewayLinkIdOBJECT-TYPE
cmedGatewayStatsEntryOBJECT-TYPE
cmedTerminationsEntryOBJECT-TYPE

From CISCO-MEDIA-GATEWAY-MIB

CCallControlProfileIndex
CCallControlProfileIndexOrZero

From CISCO-MGC-MIB

CMgcGroupIndex

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoExperimentOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-TC

CiscoPort

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cmedxCmdNumAddFails OID:

Select a Cisco media gateway/media gateway controller (H.248/Megaco) 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 cmedxCmdNumAddFails 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 the total number of cumulative ADD commands failed in the media gateway link. 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

Extension of the CISCO-IETF-MEGACO-MIB defining attributes for ITU H.248 protocol support in media gateways.

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