CISCO-ZS-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Cisco Systems Inc.

Last Updated: 2014-11-25

Category: Fibre Channel and Storage, Vendor: Cisco Devices

Description: Manages Cisco Fibre Channel zone sets for SAN access control and device-to-device isolation.

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What Is CISCO-ZS-MIB?

CISCO-ZS-MIB is a Cisco MIB for managing Fibre Channel zoning within Cisco's Zoning Server (ZS) architecture on MDS-series SAN switches, implementing the FC-GS3 Zone Server requirements plus Cisco extensions like LUN zoning. It exposes zone-set configuration and status, default-zone behavior (including QoS priority and broadcast settings), and zone-set propagation mode across a VSAN fabric, all organized under the CISCO-ZS-MIB OID subtree. Its monitoring value is primarily around software/protocol status for SAN access control — administrators check zone-set propagation state and default-zone behavior to confirm zoning changes have correctly merged across all switches in a VSAN, since a zone-merge failure can cause hosts to lose or gain unintended storage access. It depends on Cisco's VSAN and Fibre Channel management framework (FC-GS3 standards) for the broader fabric context. It is deployed on Cisco MDS-series Fibre Channel SAN switches in storage area networks.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-ZS-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 MDS 9148V (2024) — 64-Gbps 48-port Fibre Channel switch
  • Cisco MDS 9396V — 64-Gbps 96-port Fibre Channel switch

Monitoring Examples

An admin polling zoneDefaultZoneTable/zoneDefaultZoneEntry can check zoneDefaultZoneBehaviour and zoneDefaultZoneReadOnly to confirm what access unzoned devices get by default, and zoneDefaultZoneQos/zoneDefaultZoneQosPriority for QoS treatment of that default zone. zoneSetPropagationTable/zoneSetPropagationEntry indexed by zoneSetNumber reveals zoneSetPropagationMode, letting an admin verify a zone-set change has propagated fabric-wide rather than remaining local to one switch, which would otherwise cause an inconsistent zoning state across the VSAN.

What Can Be Monitored

  • default zone behavior/QoS
  • zone set propagation status
  • zone set configuration
  • VSAN zoning consistency
Imported Objects

From CISCO-NS-MIB

FcGs3RejectReasonCode

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-ST-TC

DomainIdOrZero
FcAddressId
FcNameId
VsanIndex

From CISCO-VSAN-MIB

vsanIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndexOrZero
ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

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

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TestAndIncr
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using zoneSetNumber OID:

Select a Cisco MDS 9148V (2024) 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 zoneSetNumber into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports how many Fibre Channel zone sets are currently configured on this switch. 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 an Integer32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the count changes unexpectedly, which would indicate an unplanned zoning configuration change. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Cisco Zone Server MIB for managing Fibre Channel zoning and fabric security.

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