CISCO-VINES-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Category: Cisco Devices, Routing Protocols, SNA and Legacy Protocols

Description: Manages Banyan VINES network protocol routing and forwarding configuration on Cisco routers for legacy VINES networks.

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What Is CISCO-VINES-MIB?

CISCO-VINES-MIB is a legacy Cisco enterprise MIB for managing Banyan VINES, an obsolete network-layer protocol, providing routing and forwarding configuration and neighbor state on Cisco routers configured for VINES networks. It exposes basic protocol configuration (network number, host address) alongside forwarding-neighbor tables tracking neighbor counts, path counts, protocol version, and physical addresses. Its monitoring use is largely limited to legacy network/protocol status: cvForwNeighborNeighborCount and cvForwNeighborPathCount reveal whether VINES routing neighbor adjacencies and path diversity are stable, which would have been used to detect neighbor loss or routing instability on VINES segments. It is a standalone, protocol-specific MIB with no meaningful dependency on modern IP-centric MIBs. It would have been deployed on Cisco routers serving legacy Banyan VINES network segments, a technology now essentially retired from production use. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-VINES-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-VINES-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 (legacy, configured for Banyan VINES)

Monitoring Examples

An administrator (historically) would poll cvForwNeighborTable/cvForwNeighborEntry, checking cvForwNeighborNetwork, cvForwNeighborHost, and cvForwNeighborPhysAddress to enumerate known VINES neighbors and their forwarding paths. A drop in cvForwNeighborNeighborCount or cvForwNeighborPathCount would indicate lost adjacencies or reduced path redundancy on the VINES network. The basic cvBasicNetwork and cvBasicHost objects identify the router's own VINES network number and host address for baseline configuration verification.

What Can Be Monitored

  • VINES neighbor count
  • VINES forwarding path count
  • neighbor network/host/physical address
  • local VINES network and host number
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI-v1

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32

From SNMPv2-TC-v1

PhysAddress
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Monitors VINES (Banyan) protocol statistics on Cisco routers, including network routing, forwarding, and interface-level VINES metrics.

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