CISCO-VQE-TOOLS-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2009-12-18

Category: Device Management, Vendor: Cisco Devices

Description: Covers Cisco Video Quality Experience (VQE) tools used to monitor and repair multicast video streams.

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What Is CISCO-VQE-TOOLS-MIB?

This is a Cisco enterprise MIB for the Visual/Video Quality Experience (VQE) Tools Server, specifically for monitoring the VCDS (VQE Client Channel Configuration Delivery Server), which distributes multicast video channel-lineup information to VQE clients for stream repair and quality monitoring. It exposes session and request-handling counters: cvqtNumberOfSessions, cvqtTotalReceivedRequests, cvqtTotalSentResponses, and cvqtRequestRate, along with a cvqtVcdsInfo group for server-specific information. This is a software/service performance-monitoring MIB—used to track how many client sessions the VCDS is handling and its RTSP request/response throughput and rate, helping operators detect an overloaded or unresponsive channel-delivery server that would degrade video quality-of-experience for subscribers. It is a Cisco-specific module tied to the broader VQE video-quality-monitoring product family rather than a direct extension of an IETF MIB, and it works alongside RTSP as its underlying protocol. It is deployed on Cisco VQE-Tools servers within IPTV/multicast video-delivery infrastructure at service providers, where CISCO-VQE-TOOLS-MIB SNMP monitoring tracks VCDS session load and RTSP request throughput.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-VQE-TOOLS-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 VQE-Tools servers (IPTV/multicast video delivery infrastructure)

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll cvqtNumberOfSessions and cvqtRequestRate to gauge current VCDS load, and compare cvqtTotalReceivedRequests against cvqtTotalSentResponses to check for a growing backlog of unanswered RTSP requests. A rising cvqtRequestRate combined with a widening gap between received requests and sent responses would indicate the VCDS is becoming overloaded and may start failing to deliver channel-lineup data to VQE clients, degrading video quality.

What Can Be Monitored

active client session count
RTSP requests received
RTSP responses sent
request rate

Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmt

OBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Gauge32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cvqtTotalReceivedRequests OID:

Select a Cisco VQE-Tools server (IPTV/multicast video delivery) 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 cvqtTotalReceivedRequests into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. This object indicates the number of RTSP requests received at VCDS. 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 Counter64-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline (in RTSP requests), since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
ciscoVqeToolsMIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969			This MIB module defines a set of objects for monitoring the VQE Client Channel Configuration Delivery Server (VCDS) operational status: number of open connections, Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) reqests received and responses sent from the VCDS. Visual Quality Experience Tools Server(VQE-Tools) is responsible for the creation, maintenance, and distribution of the channel information containing channel-lineup data.
ciscoVqeToolsMIBNotifs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.0
ciscoVqeToolsMIBObjects	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.1
cvqtVcdsInfo	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.1.1
G32 cvqtNumberOfSessions	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.1.1.1	Gauge32	read-only	This object indicates the number of open RTSP connections between VCDS and RTSP clients.
C64 cvqtTotalReceivedRequestsEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.1.1.2	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the number of RTSP requests received at VCDS.
C64 cvqtTotalSentResponses	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.1.1.3	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the number of RTSP responses sent from VCDS.
G32 cvqtRequestRate	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.1.1.4	Gauge32	read-only	This object indicates the number of RTSP requests received at VCDS per second.
ciscoVqeToolsMIBConform	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.2
cvqtMIBCompliances	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.2.1
cvqtMIBReadOnlyCompliance	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.2.1.1			The compliance statement for entities which implement this MIB.
cvqtMIBGroups	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.2.2
ciscoVqeToolsVcdsGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.969.2.2.1			A collection of objects providing the VCDS stats information.

RFC description

Manages Cisco Video Quality Experience (VQE) tools for monitoring and repairing multicast video streams.

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