CISCO-ETHER-CFM-CAPABILITY

Description: Declares SNMP agent capability statements for Cisco's 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Ethernet OAM implementation.

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CISCO-ETHER-CFM-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module describing which parts of the CISCO-ETHER-CFM-MIB, Cisco's implementation of 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management for Ethernet OAM, a given agent supports. It contains no runtime CFM data such as maintenance-domain status, loopback results, or continuity-check failures itself; it only declares feature support. It therefore has no direct monitoring role regarding link fault detection; that is provided by CISCO-ETHER-CFM-MIB (and the underlying IEEE 802.1ag / dot1agCfm MIB standard) which this module's capabilities reference. Its dependency is on that base CFM MIB and the IEEE 802.1ag standard it implements. It is used by NMS/MIB-compiler tooling that consults the CISCO-ETHER-CFM-CAPABILITY MIB to confirm which CFM features a given Cisco Ethernet platform supports.

This module contains only AGENT-CAPABILITIES clauses referencing groups within CISCO-ETHER-CFM-MIB and defines no pollable objects itself, so no runtime monitoring scenario can be honestly described here. Actual Ethernet OAM fault detection, continuity-check, and loopback data would be polled from CISCO-ETHER-CFM-MIB or the standard dot1agCfm MIB. This module exists solely to tell management tools which CFM capabilities a specific Cisco device implements.

Cisco agent capabilities MIB module documenting support for Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) per IEEE 802.1ag and ITU-T Y.1731, enabling Layer 2 connectivity monitoring and fault detection.