CISCO-OPTICAL-IF-CROSS-CONNECT-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2002-03-13

Category: Cisco Devices, Optical and WDM

Description: Manages optical cross-connect switching for configuring and monitoring signal path connections across optical interfaces.

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What Is CISCO-OPTICAL-IF-CROSS-CONNECT-MIB?

CISCO-OPTICAL-IF-CROSS-CONNECT-MIB is a Cisco vendor-specific MIB for optical networking platforms, used to create and monitor cross-connects -- horizontal signal-path relationships between peer interfaces on the same network element, covering time-division (SDH/SONET, PDH), wavelength (lambda), and spatial switching. It exposes an interface table describing each cross-connect-capable interface and a cross-connect table linking pairs of interfaces (low/high ifIndex) along with the switch type and kind of cross-connect. Its monitoring relevance centers on the operational and configuration status of optical signal paths -- confirming a given cross-connect between two interfaces exists, is correctly typed, and reflects the intended switching topology, which is key to diagnosing an optical path outage or an unintended cross-connect change (tracked via coifccCcLastChange). It explicitly complements the IETF IF-MIB, since vertical relationships (e.g., lambda-to-fiber) are represented separately in ifStackTable while this MIB handles the horizontal, peer-to-peer relationships. It is deployed on Cisco optical transport platforms (e.g., ONS/NCS series) used by carriers for DWDM and SDH/SONET transmission networks. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-OPTICAL-IF-CROSS-CONNECT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • Cisco optical transport platform (e.g., ONS/NCS series)

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll coifccCrossConnectTable, keyed by coifccCcIndex, to check coifccCcLowIfIndex/coifccCcHighIfIndex and coifccCcSwitchType for a given optical path, confirming the cross-connect matches the intended provisioning. Watching coifccCcLastChange for an unexpected recent timestamp would reveal that a cross-connect was modified or re-provisioned, which could explain a sudden change in optical signal routing or an unplanned service disruption. coifccInterfaceTable's coifccIfCrossConnectIdentifier would be checked to confirm which cross-connects are associated with a specific optical interface.

What Can Be Monitored

  • cross-connect interface pairing (low/high ifIndex)
  • cross-connect switch type/kind
  • cross-connect last-change timestamp
  • per-interface cross-connect associations
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoExperimentOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
OIDs

RFC description

Creates and monitors cross-connects between optical interfaces on DWDM and SDH/SONET switching elements.

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