All MIBs › CISCO-BGP-POLICY-ACCOUNTING-MIB-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2005-12-30
Category: Cisco Devices, Textual Conventions and Registries
Description: Declares SNMP agent capabilities for the Cisco BGP policy accounting MIB.
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What Is CISCO-BGP-POLICY-ACCOUNTING-MIB-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-BGP-POLICY-ACCOUNTING-MIB-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module that documents which objects and features of CISCO-BGP-POLICY-ACCOUNTING-MIB a particular Cisco agent implementation actually supports, rather than defining any new managed objects of its own. It exposes no monitorable data directly; instead it is metadata used by NMS applications and MIB compilers to determine implementation conformance for BGP policy accounting counters on a given software/hardware release. As such it plays no direct role in hardware or software status monitoring, but indirectly supports correct interpretation of BGP policy-accounting statistics (byte/packet counts per routing policy) reported by the referenced MIB. It is entirely dependent on and meaningless without CISCO-BGP-POLICY-ACCOUNTING-MIB, whose object definitions it describes support for. It is typically referenced by network management systems and MIB-compliance tooling rather than polled directly by operators managing Cisco routers running BGP policy accounting. Engineers can download the CISCO-BGP-POLICY-ACCOUNTING-MIB-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral capability-declaration module for Cisco routers running BGP
- not a hardware-monitoring MIB itself
Monitoring Examples
A MIB compiler or NMS conformance checker parses this AGENT-CAPABILITIES module to determine, for a given Cisco IOS release, whether counters like per-policy byte and packet accounting objects in CISCO-BGP-POLICY-ACCOUNTING-MIB are implemented, and if so with what variations. There are no sample objects defined within the module itself since it only contains capability statements referencing the companion MIB. An engineer validating a monitoring tool's compatibility with a specific router's software version would consult this module to confirm the expected BGP policy accounting objects will actually return data before deploying pollers against it.
What Can Be Monitored
- agent implementation conformance for BGP policy accounting objects
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Agent capabilities specification for Cisco BGP policy-based accounting on IOS XR platforms.
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