All MIBs › CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2006-05-02
Category: Cisco Devices, Device Management, Hardware and Environment, SNMP Framework
Description: Declares SNMP agent capabilities for memory pool utilization monitoring on Cisco routing and switching platforms.
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What Is CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module declaring which objects and groups of the CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB are implemented on a given Cisco device's SNMP agent, rather than defining memory data itself. It belongs to the Cisco system/platform management technology area, specifically the widely-used memory pool utilization MIB found on routers and switches. As a capability statement it exposes no live memory figures directly; it instead tells a management station which memory pool tables (e.g., free/used bytes per pool) are supported for that hardware/software combination. It is a supporting module for CPU/memory health monitoring—by confirming which memory pool objects exist, it enables accurate polling of actual memory utilization and low-memory fault conditions on the device. It is deployed alongside CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB across the general population of Cisco IOS/IOS-XE routing and switching platforms. Engineers can download the CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco router
- Cisco switch
Monitoring Examples
A monitoring platform reads this capabilities module during device onboarding to confirm which memory pool entries (e.g., Processor, I/O) are exposed via ciscoMemoryPoolTable on a given IOS image before scheduling regular polls. This ensures memory-utilization alerting for low free memory is only configured for pools the device actually reports, avoiding false 'no such object' errors.
What Can Be Monitored
- supported memory pool object groups
- implemented memory pool table entries
- agent capability per software release
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Defines agent capabilities for memory pool management on various Cisco platform releases.
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