CISCO-SESS-BORDER-CTRLR-EVENT-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2010-12-06

Category: Alarm and Event Management, Cisco Devices

Description: Manages event notifications and alarm reporting for Cisco Session Border Controller operational state changes.

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What Is CISCO-SESS-BORDER-CTRLR-EVENT-MIB?

CISCO-SESS-BORDER-CTRLR-EVENT-MIB defines SNMP notifications and alarms generated by the Cisco Session Border Controller (SBC) application, which runs as a service on Cisco routers to provide firewall/NAT traversal, media bridging, signaling protocol inter-working, and call admission control for VoIP/SIP traffic. It belongs to Cisco's voice/unified-communications and session-border-control product area. The data it exposes is fault/event-oriented: alarm subsystem, severity, ID, timestamp, description, and detailed source-flow context (gate ID, VDBE ID, flow-pair ID, local address/port) for each alerting condition. This MIB is entirely about fault and operational-status monitoring of the SBC software service, surfacing alarms tied to specific call flows, gates, or signaling issues rather than reporting general chassis hardware metrics like temperature or power supply. It is closely tied to the broader Cisco SBC configuration MIB family for context on the objects being alarmed, and it is deployed on Cisco routers running the SBC service card/feature in service-provider or enterprise VoIP border-control deployments. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-SESS-BORDER-CTRLR-EVENT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-SESS-BORDER-CTRLR-EVENT-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 routers running the Session Border Controller (SBC) service

Monitoring Examples

An NMS receiving a trap referencing csbAlarmSubsystem, csbAlarmSeverity, and csbAlarmID would correlate it with csbSBCServiceName and csbAlarmDescription to identify which SBC instance and condition triggered the alert. Fields like csbSrcAlertGateId, csbSrcAlertFlowPairId, and csbSrcAlertLocalAddressType/csbSrcAlertLocalAddress/csbSrcAlertLocalPort pinpoint the exact call gate and media flow affected, useful for diagnosing a specific dropped or failed call. A high-severity csbAlarmSeverity tied to repeated csbAlarmID events on the same csbSBCServiceName would indicate a systemic SBC signaling or media-bridging fault requiring investigation.

What Can Be Monitored

  • SBC alarm severity and ID
  • alarm subsystem/description
  • affected SBC service name
  • call gate/flow-pair identifiers
  • local address/port of alerting flow
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SESS-BORDER-CTRLR-CALL-STATS-MIB

CiscoSbcPeriodicStatsInterval

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-TC

CiscoAlarmSeverity

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

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

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Session Border Controller (SBC) events and notifications including service state changes, call policy violations, and resource congestion.

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