CISCO-BERT-CAPABILITY

Description: Declares SNMP agent capabilities for the Cisco BERT MIB.

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CISCO-BERT-CAPABILITY is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module, not a data-bearing MIB, covering Bit Error Rate Test (BERT) functionality on Cisco ATM/PXE service modules. It declares which groups of the companion CISCO-BERT-MIB are implemented by specific Cisco product modules, such as the Enhanced ATM Switch Service Module (AXSM-E) and Enhanced Processor Switch Module 1 (PXM1E) uplink. It exposes no runtime status itself; rather it governs whether BERT test-related objects (which would otherwise be used to monitor line/physical-layer test status and error results) are available on a given module. It is entirely dependent on the CISCO-BERT-MIB it profiles for the actual BERT test objects and results. It is used by network management systems to confirm BERT MIB feature support on Cisco AXSM-E/PXM1E hardware before attempting to run or monitor bit error rate tests, consulting the CISCO-BERT-CAPABILITY MIB to determine exactly which BERT groups are implemented on a given module.

This module contains no runtime data objects of its own; it is a conformance statement mapping ciscoBertAxsmeCapabilityV3R00 to the CISCO-BERT-MIB groups supported specifically by the AXSM-E and PXM1E uplink hardware. It would be consulted by an NMS to confirm BERT testing support before issuing test requests against the underlying CISCO-BERT-MIB objects, not queried directly for status.

Agent capabilities MIB for Cisco BERT (Bit Error Rate Test) support on ATM switches and modules.