All MIBs › CISCO-ETHERLIKE-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2011-04-01
Category: Cisco Devices, Network Interfaces, SNMP Framework
Description: Declares SNMP agent capability statements for the EtherLike-MIB implementation on various Cisco Ethernet interface platforms.
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What Is CISCO-ETHERLIKE-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-ETHERLIKE-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module, not a data-bearing MIB, published by Cisco to declare which parts of the standard IETF EtherLike-MIB (dot3StatsTable and related Ethernet-like interface objects) a given Cisco Ethernet platform's SNMP agent actually implements. It exposes no counters, gauges, or tables of its own; instead it enumerates supported groups, objects, and variations against the EtherLike-MIB definition for specific IOS/IOS-XE releases and hardware families. As such it plays no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status itself, but it governs which EtherLike-MIB health data (duplex mismatches, alignment/FCS errors, collision counts) an NMS can reliably expect to poll from a given device. It is entirely dependent on the IETF EtherLike-MIB and SNMPv2-CONF's AGENT-CAPABILITIES macro. Typical deployment context is internal Cisco agent-capability documentation consumed by MIB compilers and NMS platforms during device onboarding, not by day-to-day operational polling. Engineers can download the CISCO-ETHERLIKE-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco Ethernet-capable switches and routers
Monitoring Examples
This is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES module with no runtime data objects, so there is no monitoring scenario to describe; it only documents feature/version support for the EtherLike-MIB on specific Cisco platforms.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Counter32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Cisco SNMP agent capability statement MIB for Ethernet-like interface objects; documents which standard ETHERLIKE-MIB objects are supported.
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