All MIBs › CISCO-IF-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2008-03-17
Category: Cisco Devices, Network Interfaces, SNMP Framework
Description: Declares agent capability for the IETF IF-MIB network interface management on Cisco platforms.
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What Is CISCO-IF-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-IF-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module declaring which objects and groups of the standard IETF IF-MIB (network interface management MIB) are implemented by the SNMP agent on a given Cisco platform. It belongs to the general interface-management conformance area and, like other capability modules, defines no runtime data of its own. It therefore has no direct role in reporting hardware/software status; instead it tells a management station in advance which interface counters, states, and tables (e.g., ifOperStatus, ifSpeed) are actually supported before polling begins. It is entirely dependent on, and only meaningful in relation to, the base IF-MIB it describes. It is used during NMS integration and interface-monitoring tool setup for Cisco routers and switches. Engineers can download the CISCO-IF-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco routers
- Cisco switches
Monitoring Examples
This is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES module with no runtime data objects; sample_objects is empty. It exists solely to declare IF-MIB feature support on a given Cisco platform, not to expose monitorable interface status itself.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString | |
| TruthValue |
OIDs
RFC description
Describes agent capabilities for Cisco IF-MIB on various IOS/CatOS/IOS XR platforms.
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