All MIBs › CISCO-LINK-ERROR-MONITOR-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2004-08-05
Category: Alarm and Event Management, Cisco Devices, Network Interfaces, SNMP Framework
Description: Declares agent capability for the Cisco per-link error rate monitoring MIB.
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What Is CISCO-LINK-ERROR-MONITOR-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-LINK-ERROR-MONITOR-CAPABILITY is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES module that formally declares which parts of the companion CISCO-LINK-ERROR-MONITOR-MIB a particular device/agent implementation actually supports, rather than exposing any monitoring data itself. It is a conformance/compliance statement, not a data-bearing MIB, so it defines no interface, environmental, performance, or fault objects on its own. Its relevance to hardware/software status monitoring is indirect: it tells an NMS which link-error-rate monitoring capabilities (used to detect degrading physical links via CRC/error-rate thresholds) are available on a given Cisco platform before that NMS attempts to poll or configure them. It exists solely to describe support for CISCO-LINK-ERROR-MONITOR-MIB, so it has a direct, defining dependency on that MIB. It is deployed as a per-platform/per-software-release capabilities statement in Cisco's SNMP MIB support documentation, used by NMS vendors for compatibility checks rather than at runtime on the device itself. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-LINK-ERROR-MONITOR-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco routers/switches supporting link error-rate monitoring (capabilities declaration only, not tied to one specific model)
Monitoring Examples
As an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module, it contains no runtime data objects or tables to poll; it only declares which groups and objects of CISCO-LINK-ERROR-MONITOR-MIB (such as link error-rate thresholds and status) are supported on a given Cisco software release, information used by NMS tooling for compatibility validation rather than live monitoring.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| Unsigned32 |
OIDs
RFC description
Link error monitoring capabilities for Cisco Catalyst switches.
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