CISCO-INTERFACETOPN-EXT-CAPABILITY

Description: Declares agent capability for Cisco extensions to the top-N interface utilization MIB.

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CISCO-INTERFACETOPN-EXT-CAPABILITY is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module that documents which object groups of the CISCO-INTERFACETOPN-EXT-MIB (Cisco's extended top-N interface utilization MIB) are implemented on a given Cisco platform's SNMP agent. Like other capabilities modules it carries no runtime data of its own; it exists purely to tell a management station what level of top-N interface-utilization reporting to expect from the device. Its relevance to hardware/software monitoring is indirect: it governs whether a management application can rely on the companion MIB to identify the busiest interfaces on a router or switch by traffic volume. It is explicitly dependent on, and only meaningful alongside, the CISCO-INTERFACETOPN-EXT-MIB it describes. It is used during network-management-system integration with Cisco IOS/IOS XE devices rather than for direct day-to-day polling. Engineers can download the CISCO-INTERFACETOPN-EXT-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

This is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES module with no data objects of its own, so there is no runtime monitoring scenario to report; it only declares the support level for the separate CISCO-INTERFACETOPN-EXT-MIB that carries the actual top-N interface utilization data.

A Cisco capability MIB providing extended interface top-N monitoring functionality for Cisco networking devices. This MIB is used for monitoring and reporting on the top performing or most significant interfaces on a network device based on various metrics.