ESAFE-MIB

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Organization: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Last Updated: 2017-06-15

Category: Domain: Subscriber Management, Standard: IETF

Description: Defines SNMP objects for eSAFE (embedded Service/Application Functional Entity) management in cable broadband devices.

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What Is ESAFE-MIB?

ESAFE-MIB defines SNMP objects for the eSAFE (embedded Service/Application Functional Entity) framework used in cable broadband customer-premises equipment such as cable modems and gateways, following CableLabs/DOCSIS-related conventions. It exposes provisioning status and per-device service-impact information for embedded service applications running on the cable device, including whether the provisioning process succeeded and which service flow or event caused a failure. This is squarely a software-status monitoring MIB: it lets an operator track provisioning progress, detect provisioning failures (with an associated error code/text and failing flow identifier), and see the service-interruption impact of an eSAFE device on the broader cable modem's services. It is designed to be used alongside DOCSIS device MIBs (e.g., DOCS-CABLE-DEVICE-MIB) that provide the base cable-modem status this module augments. It is deployed on cable operator networks, instrumented within eSAFE-capable cable modems/gateways and polled by the operator's provisioning and OSS systems. Engineers can download the ESAFE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in ESAFE-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

  • cable modem / cable gateway with embedded eSAFE service applications (DOCSIS CPE)

Monitoring Examples

An operator's provisioning system would poll esafeProvisioningStatusTable/esafeProvisioningStatusEntry, checking esafeProvisioningStatusProgress to confirm a device has completed provisioning and esafeProvisioningStatusFailureFound/esafeProvisioningStatusFailureFlow/esafeProvisioningStatusFailureEventID/esafeProvisioningStatusFailureErrorText to diagnose why a device failed to provision (e.g., a DHCP or config-file download failure), using esafeProvisioningStatusLastUpdate to see how recently the status changed. Separately, esafeDevStatusTable/esafeDevStatusEntry with esafeDevServiceIntImpact and esafeDevServiceIntImpactInfo would be checked to see if the eSAFE device is currently impacting other services on the cable modem, useful for correlating a customer's reported outage with an internal eSAFE fault.

What Can Be Monitored

  • provisioning progress status
  • provisioning failure flow/event/error
  • provisioning last-update time
  • device service-interruption impact
Imported Objects

From CLAB-DEF-MIB

clabProjDocsisOBJECT-IDENTITY

From IF-MIB

ifIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
PhysAddress
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

eSAFE (Embedded Secure Agent For E2 devices) MIB for eDOCSIS cable modem management and configuration.

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