CISCO-SERVICE-CONTROL-ATTACK-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2013-08-16

Category: Cisco Devices, Quality of Service

Description: Monitors attack detection and mitigation statistics on Cisco SCE (Service Control Engine) deep packet inspection platforms.

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What Is CISCO-SERVICE-CONTROL-ATTACK-MIB?

CISCO-SERVICE-CONTROL-ATTACK-MIB is a Cisco enterprise MIB for the Service Control Engine (SCE) platform, a deep-packet-inspection device that performs stateful, subscriber-aware traffic monitoring and control. It belongs to the network security/traffic-management technology area and exposes attack-detection statistics broken down by attack type, including current and total attack counts, total affected flows, duration in seconds, directionality (network-side vs. subscriber-side origin), protocol, and whether the attack is port-specific. Its monitoring value is squarely in the faults/security domain: it lets an operator watch for active and historical attack conditions being detected and mitigated by the SCE in real time, effectively functioning as the security-health dashboard for the appliance rather than reporting general hardware sensors. It is a service-control-application-specific extension built on top of Cisco's broader Service Control MIB family for SCE platforms. Typical deployment context is carrier or large-enterprise networks using Cisco SCE appliances inline for deep packet inspection, DDoS/attack detection, and per-subscriber policy enforcement. Engineers can download the CISCO-SERVICE-CONTROL-ATTACK-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-SERVICE-CONTROL-ATTACK-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 Service Control Engine (SCE) appliance

Monitoring Examples

An administrator polls cscaTypeTable/cscaTypeEntry (indexed by cscaTypeIndex) to read cscaTypeCurrentNumAttacks and cscaTypeTotalNumAttacks per attack type, along with cscaTypeTotalNumFlows and cscaTypeTotalNumSeconds to gauge severity and duration. A spike in cscaTypeCurrentNumAttacks with cscaTypeOriginatedByNetworkSide set to true would indicate an active inbound attack from the network side rather than from subscribers, prompting mitigation review. The ciscoServiceControlAttackMIBNotifs traps can alert operators the moment new attack activity crosses a threshold.

What Can Be Monitored

  • current attacks by type
  • total attacks by type
  • total affected flows
  • attack duration
  • attack origination side (network vs subscriber)
  • port-specific attack detection
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From ENTITY-MIB

entPhysicalIndexOBJECT-TYPE
entPhysicalNameOBJECT-TYPE

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

AutonomousType
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeInterval
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cscaTypeTotalNumAttacks OID:

Select a Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE) platform 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 cscaTypeTotalNumAttacks 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 indicates the total number of attacks of this type since the last discontinuity. 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

Monitors network attacks detected by Cisco service control entities with attack types, sources, and statistics.

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