IPSEC-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated October 06, 2026

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Organization: IETF IPSec Working Group

Last Updated: 1999-01-25

Category: Domain: Security, Standard: IETF, Technology: VPN, VPN and Security

Description: IETF IPsec MIB providing SNMP management objects for monitoring IPsec security associations, policies, and tunnel statistics.

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What Is IPSEC-MIB?

IPSEC-MIB is a vendor-neutral IETF standards MIB providing generic managed objects for IPsec, covering both general/entity-level IPsec configuration and IPsec-related event/notification objects. It is intended to expose the categories of data needed to track IPsec deployment at a device level: security association and policy configuration, and fault/event conditions related to IPsec processing. Its monitoring value is centered on software/protocol status -- confirming IPsec security associations are established and healthy, and that IPsec-related faults are surfaced as SNMP events -- rather than hardware sensors. As a generic IPsec MIB it is meant to work alongside more specific IPsec policy and IKE MIBs (such as IPSEC-IKEACTION-MIB) for full security-policy management. Deployment context is any IPsec-capable router, firewall, or VPN gateway where tunnel and SA health needs to be monitored via SNMP. Engineers implementing or auditing this functionality typically reference the IPSEC-MIB RFC/standard documentation for the authoritative specification.

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

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
  • IPsec-capable routers, firewalls, and VPN gateways

Monitoring Examples

No sample object names were provided in the source extract for this module, so specific table or object identifiers cannot be responsibly invented. Based on the module description ('generic IPSec objects, and entity level IPSec objects and events'), a realistic scenario would be polling security-association state to detect tunnels that have failed to establish or have expired, and watching for IPsec-related event notifications. Without concrete object names, further detail would be speculative.

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
experimental

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using ipsecProtSuiteInboundTraffic OID:

Select a device implementing IPSEC-MIB 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 ipsecProtSuiteInboundTraffic into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. The amount of user level traffic measured in bytes handled by the protection suite in the inbound direction. 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 bytes), 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

RFC description

Monitors IPSec protection suites, tunnel status, and security association statistics.

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