All MIBs › CISCO-FABRIC-MCAST-MIB-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2006-06-12
Category: Cisco Devices, Routing Protocols, SNMP Framework
Description: Declares SNMP agent capability statements for the CISCO-FABRIC-MCAST-MIB implementation on Cisco platforms.
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What Is CISCO-FABRIC-MCAST-MIB-CAPABILITY?
This is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module that documents which specific objects, groups, and variations of the separate CISCO-FABRIC-MCAST-MIB a given Cisco platform's SNMP agent actually implements, rather than defining or exposing any device data itself. As a capabilities statement, it does not expose runtime categories of data like interfaces, environment, or performance counters; it exists purely to let management applications programmatically determine feature/object support before attempting to poll the real CISCO-FABRIC-MCAST-MIB. Consequently it has no bearing on monitoring hardware or software status directly; its only function is to declare implementation conformance, which multicast-fabric objects are supported and with what access, for the referenced MIB. It is entirely dependent on and meaningless without the CISCO-FABRIC-MCAST-MIB it describes, which is the module that actually defines Fibre Channel/storage-fabric multicast objects. It would be consulted by NMS/EMS tooling during MIB compatibility checks on Cisco MDS/Nexus fabric switches rather than polled for operational data. Engineers can download the CISCO-FABRIC-MCAST-MIB-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco MDS/Nexus storage fabric switch
Monitoring Examples
This is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES module with no runtime data objects, so there is no monitoring scenario to describe; it contains only capability, group, and variation statements referencing the OIDs defined in CISCO-FABRIC-MCAST-MIB. A management application would parse it once, offline, to learn which multicast-fabric objects a given Cisco device supports, rather than polling it as part of ongoing monitoring.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Cisco IOS XR fabric multicast MIB capabilities definition for fabric-based multicast support.
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