CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EXTPOL-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems Inc.

Last Updated: 2018-07-26

Description: MIB for external policy provider connector management on Cisco UCS, governing connections to external policy registries and tracking connector operational states and FSM lifecycle transitions

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What Is CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EXTPOL-MIB?

CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EXTPOL-MIB is part of the Cisco UCS management information model, covering external policy provider connectors -- integrations that connect UCS Manager to external policy registries. It exposes connector configuration and connection-state data, including host/IP identity, capability, and interest fields for each external policy client, plus finite-state-machine lifecycle status for connector operations. Its monitoring value is software-status oriented: verifying that a UCS domain's connection to an external policy source is established and healthy, since a broken connector could mean policy updates from the external registry are silently failing to apply. It depends on the shared UCS FSM lifecycle model (also used across other UCS MIBs) to represent connector operation progress. It is deployed on Cisco UCS Manager domains that integrate with external policy management systems in larger, federated data center environments. Engineers can download the CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EXTPOL-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EXTPOL-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 UCS Manager domains
  • Cisco UCS fabric interconnects

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cucsExtpolClientTable/cucsExtpolClientEntry, checking cucsExtpolClientHost and cucsExtpolClientIp to confirm the external policy connector is pointed at the correct registry, and cucsExtpolClientCapability/cucsExtpolClientInterest to see which policy domains it subscribes to. If the connector's associated FSM status (tracked via the related FSM MIB) stalls in a transitional state, it indicates the connection to the external policy provider is failing to complete. A missing or stale cucsExtpolClientGuid entry would suggest the connector registration has been lost.

What Can Be Monitored

  • external policy connector host/IP
  • connector capability and interest scope
  • connector connection/FSM status
  • policy registry integration health
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-TC

CiscoAlarmSeverity
CiscoInetAddressMask
CiscoNetworkAddress
TimeIntervalSec
Unsigned64

From CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-MIB

CucsManagedObjectDn
CucsManagedObjectId
ciscoUnifiedComputingMIBObjectsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-TC-MIB

CucsConditionRemoteInvRslt
CucsExtpolAppCapability
CucsExtpolConnProtocol
CucsExtpolConnType
CucsExtpolConnectionProtocol
CucsExtpolConnectorOperState
CucsExtpolEpFsmCurrentFsm
CucsExtpolEpFsmStageName
CucsExtpolEpFsmTaskItem
CucsExtpolProviderFsmCurrentFsm
CucsExtpolProviderFsmStageName
CucsExtpolProviderFsmTaskItem
CucsExtpolRegistryFsmCurrentFsm
CucsExtpolRegistryFsmStageName
CucsExtpolRegistryFsmTaskItem
CucsExtpolState
CucsExtpolSuspendState
CucsFsmCompletion
CucsFsmFlags
CucsFsmFsmStageStatus

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddressIPv4
InetAddressIPv6

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Gauge32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
MacAddress
RowPointer
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeInterval
TimeStamp
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Manages external policy configuration and power enforcement policy parameters for Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) servers and fabric interconnects.

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