CISCO-VQES-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2010-02-05

Category: Device Management, Vendor: Cisco Devices

Description: Manages Cisco VQE Server (VQES) for multicast video stream error repair and rapid channel change.

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What Is CISCO-VQES-MIB?

CISCO-VQES-MIB manages the Cisco Visual Quality Experience Server (VQE-S), a video delivery appliance providing multicast video error repair (ER) and rapid channel change (RCC) for IPTV/video-over-IP deployments. It exposes operational data about the video channel lineup — per-channel multicast address, RTP/RTCP port numbers, channel status, and member/viewer population — as well as server-wide scalars like total and active channel counts. This MIB is used to monitor the software/service health of the VQE-S application: whether channels are actively repairing errors, how many subscribers are attached per channel, and when the channel table was last refreshed from the provisioning tool, rather than exposing chassis-level hardware sensors. It depends on the VQE Channel Provisioning Tool's SDP-based channel definitions and on standard RTP/RTCP (IETF) protocol concepts for its per-channel data model. It is deployed in cable/telco head-end and video-distribution networks alongside Cisco VQE-S appliances delivering managed IPTV service, where a CISCO-VQES-MIB download helps operators watch channel and subscriber health across the lineup.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-VQES-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-S (Visual Quality Experience Server) appliances

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cvqsActiveChannels against cvqsNumberofChannels to confirm all provisioned video channels are currently active, and walk cvqsChannelTable/cvqsChannelTableEntry to inspect per-channel cvqsChannelStatus and cvqsChannelMemberPopulation for a specific multicast stream. A channel showing cvqsChannelStatus down or cvqsChannelMemberPopulation dropping to zero would indicate a video feed outage affecting subscribers, and cvqsLastUpdatedTime confirms the channel lineup was recently refreshed from the provisioning system.

What Can Be Monitored

active vs. total channel count
per-channel status
channel multicast address/port
channel member population
channel lineup last-update time

Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmt

OBJECT-IDENTITY

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

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

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cvqsTotalReceivedERMsgs OID:

Select a Cisco VQE-S (Visual Quality Experience Server) appliance 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 cvqsTotalReceivedERMsgs into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. This object indicates the total number of requests for ER (Generic NACK RTCP) messages received. 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 ER 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
ciscoVqeSMIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942			This MIB module defines a set of objects for monitoring the Visual Quality Experience Server (VQE-S) operational status. VQE-S receives the channel lineups from the VQE Channel Provisioning Tool. Each channel is uniquely identified with a Service Delivery Protocol (SDP) description, including: - IP multicast address - Real-Time Protocol (RTP) port number - Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP) port number - Unicast feedback target address - RTP and RTCP port numbers VQE-S supports Error Repair (ER) and Rapid Channel Change (RCC) technologies to improve the delivery of IPTV video services. When a VQE client (VQE-C) notices a missing packet or a group of missing packets, it sends an RTCP Feedback Generic NACK to the VQE-S. The VQE-S looks into its cache, and if it has any of the requested packets, it sends them immediately to the VQE-C as RTP retransmission repair packets. When the VQE-C detects a channel change, it immediately sends an RTCP Picture Loss Indication (PLI) NACK to the VQE-S to request the information for the VQE-C to recover its picture. Both ER and RCC are unicast retransmissions.
ciscoVqeSMIBNotifs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.0
NTF cvqsChannelUp	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.0.1			This notification indicates that a VQE-S channel status is changed to ACTIVE.
NTF cvqsChannelDown	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.0.2			This notification indicates that a VQE-S channel status is changed to INACTIVE or INOPERATIVE.
ciscoVqeSMIBObjects	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1
cvqsControlInfo	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.1
T/F cvqsNotificationsEnable	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.1.1	TruthValue	read-write	This object specifies whether cvqsChannelUp and cvqsChannelDown notifications will be generated or not. A false value will prevent these notifications from being generated.
cvqsChannelInfo	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2
G32 cvqsNumberofChannels	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.1	Gauge32	read-only	This object indicates total number of channels in the channel lineup configuration.
G32 cvqsActiveChannels	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.2	Gauge32	read-only	This object indicates total number of channels successfully parsed from the channel lineup.
DAT cvqsLastUpdatedTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.3	DateAndTime	read-only	This object indicates the time when the channel lineup was last updated.
cvqsChannelTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.4		not-accessible	This table contains the list of channels (i.e., the channel lineup) this VQE-S is servicing.
cvqsChannelTableEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.4.1		not-accessible	This entry contains information about one channel seviced by the VQE-S system. The entry is created and removed via the Net-SNMP cache helper.
U32 cvqsChannelIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.4.1.1	Unsigned32	not-accessible	An arbitrary integer-value that uniquely identifies this channel.
IPt cvqsChannelMulticastIPType	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.4.1.2	InetAddressType	read-only	This object indicates the address type of channel multicast IP address.
IP cvqsChannelMulticastIPAddr	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.4.1.3	InetAddress	read-only	This object indicates the channel's multicast IP address.
INE cvqsChannelMulticastPort	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.4.1.4	InetPortNumber	read-only	This object indicates the channel's multicast port number.
INT cvqsChannelStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.4.1.5	INTEGER	read-only	This object indicates the current status of this channel.
G32 cvqsChannelMemberPopulation	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.2.4.1.6	Gauge32	read-only	This object indicates the number of VQE clients listening to this channel.
cvqsErrorRepair	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.3
C64 cvqsTotalReceivedERMsgsEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.3.1	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the total number of requests for ER (Generic NACK RTCP) messages received.
C64 cvqsTotalReceivedInvalidERMsgs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.3.2	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the number of requests for ER (Generic NACK RTCP messages) received that were invalid.
C64 cvqsTotalReceivedERPkts	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.3.3	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the total number of RTP packets requested for retransmission.
C64 cvqsTotalSentERPkts	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.3.4	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the total number of retransmitted RTP packets.
cvqsRCC	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.4
C64 cvqsTotalReceivedRCCs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.4.1	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the total number of RCC requests received by the VQE-S.
C64 cvqsTotalAcceptedRCCs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.4.2	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the total number of RCC requests accepted by the VQE-S.
C64 cvqsTotalRefusedRCCs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.4.3	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the total number of RCC requests not accepted by the VQE-S.
cvqsCapacity	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.5
G32 cvqsTotalRTCPReceivers	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.5.1	Gauge32	read-only	This object indicates the number of currently active RTCP receivers.
C64 cvqsRejectedRTCPs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.5.2	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the number of received RTCP packets (ER requests, RCC requests or Receiver Reports) rejected by the VQE-S due to active RTCP receivers in VQE-S reaching their limit of accepting RTCP requests.
C64 cvqsRejectedERs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.5.3	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the number of received ER requests rejected by the VQE-S due to VQE-S reaching its limit of accepting ER requests.
C64 cvqsRejectedRCCs	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.1.5.4	Counter64	read-only	This object indicates the number of received RCC requests rejected by the VQE-S due to VQE-S reaching its limit of accepting RCC requests.
ciscoVqeSMIBConform	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2
cvqsMIBCompliances	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2.1
cvqsMIBCompliance	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2.1.1			The compliance statement for entities which implement this MIB.
cvqsMIBGroups	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2.2
ciscoVqeSControlGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2.2.1			A collection of objects providing the VQE-S control information.
ciscoVqeSChannelGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2.2.2			A collection of objects providing the VQE-S channel information.
ciscoVqeSERGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2.2.3			A collection of objects providing the VQE-S Error Repair information.
ciscoVqeSRCCGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2.2.4			A collection of objects providing the VQE-S Rapid Channel Change information.
ciscoVqeSCapacityGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2.2.5			A collection of objects providing the VQE-S Capacity information.
ciscoVqeSNotifGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.942.2.2.6			This group contains the collection of all the notifications for a Cisco VQE-S Entity.

RFC description

Cisco private MIB for managing Video Quality of Experience Server (VQES) IPTV video delivery optimization.

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