CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-CAPABILITY

Description: Defines SNMP agent capability statements for Cisco Entity FRU Control MIB managing field-replaceable unit power and reset.

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This module is not a data-bearing MIB itself but an AGENT-CAPABILITIES statement describing which parts of CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB a given Cisco SNMP agent implements, covering field-replaceable unit (FRU) power and reset control such as power supplies, fans, and module admin/oper status. It doesn't expose object data directly; instead it documents implementation conformance so management systems know which power-control and FRU-status groups are supported on a specific platform/software combination. Its practical value in monitoring hardware is indirect: it tells a management platform whether FRU power/fan/reset monitoring is available before it attempts to poll those objects, rather than providing uptime, CPU, or fault data itself. It is dependent entirely on CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB, which it profiles, and is not deployed standalone. It appears on Cisco routers/switches/chassis systems as part of the vendor's agent-capabilities registry, consulted by NMS platforms and MIB compilers rather than polled at runtime. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

A MIB compiler or NMS onboarding tool would parse this capability statement to determine which FRU power-status and module-reset object groups from CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB are implemented on a given Cisco platform/software release before scheduling SNMP polls against them. If the capability declaration shows only partial support, for example power-supply status but not fan-tray reset control, the monitoring system would suppress polling for the unsupported objects rather than repeatedly timing out. This capability-driven approach lets automated discovery tailor FRU hardware monitoring per device model without guessing which OIDs actually exist.

Defines SNMP agent capabilities for FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) management on various Cisco platforms.