All MIBs › CISCO-MAC-AUTH-BYPASS-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2010-03-09
Category: Cisco Devices, RADIUS and AAA, SNMP Framework, VPN and Security
Description: States SNMP agent capabilities related to MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) on Cisco network access devices.
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What Is CISCO-MAC-AUTH-BYPASS-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-MAC-AUTH-BYPASS-CAPABILITY is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module that declares which specific objects, groups, and compliance levels of the companion CISCO-MAC-AUTH-BYPASS-MIB a given Cisco device's SNMP agent actually implements, for MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB), a network access control mechanism that authenticates devices by their MAC address when 802.1X is not supported. As an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module it defines no runtime data objects itself; it exists purely to describe implementation conformance for network management tools performing capability negotiation. It has no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status; its value is entirely in helping an NMS determine which MAC Authentication Bypass management objects are safe to query on a particular Cisco platform and software version. It exists specifically as a conformance companion to CISCO-MAC-AUTH-BYPASS-MIB, on which it is entirely dependent. As a CISCO-MAC-AUTH-BYPASS-CAPABILITY reference, it is consulted wherever Cisco access switches or wireless controllers implementing MAB are managed, primarily by MIB-compilation and capability-discovery tooling rather than by operational monitoring dashboards.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco network access switch
- Cisco wireless LAN controller
Monitoring Examples
This is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module with no runtime data objects to poll; it exists only to declare which objects and groups of CISCO-MAC-AUTH-BYPASS-MIB are supported on a given Cisco device, and would be consulted by MIB-management or NMS discovery tooling rather than used for any monitoring scenario.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Declares SNMP agent capabilities for MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) on Cisco network access devices.
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