All MIBs › CISCO-ENTITY-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2014-04-03
Category: Cisco Devices, Hardware and Environment, SNMP Framework
Description: Defines SNMP agent capability statements for the Cisco physical entity MIB on supported hardware platforms.
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What Is CISCO-ENTITY-CAPABILITY?
This is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module documenting which groups and variations of the standard IETF ENTITY-MIB a given Cisco hardware platform's agent supports. It defines no managed objects itself and carries no runtime hardware inventory data; instead it declares, per Cisco product/software release, how the physical entity table and related ENTITY-MIB groups are implemented. Because it has no data objects, it is not used to monitor uptime, temperature, or component status directly — that is the role of ENTITY-MIB itself (entPhysicalTable and related objects) on devices this module describes. It is entirely dependent on the referenced IETF ENTITY-MIB (RFC 4133 and predecessors). It is used by MIB compilers and NMS platforms to determine ENTITY-MIB feature support across the wide range of Cisco hardware. Engineers can download the CISCO-ENTITY-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco hardware platforms (routers, switches)
- vendor-specific conformance module, not a data-bearing MIB
Monitoring Examples
As a capabilities-only module it defines no data objects or tables; there is no runtime monitoring scenario to describe. Actual physical inventory and hardware component monitoring (chassis, modules, sensors) would be performed against the standard ENTITY-MIB's entPhysicalTable rather than this capability statement.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Cisco agent capability statement for ENTITY-MIB physical component inventory management.
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