All MIBs › CISCO-NAC-NAD-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2008-11-10
Category: Cisco Devices, RADIUS and AAA, SNMP Framework, VPN and Security
Description: Declares SNMP agent capabilities for Network Admission Control Network Access Device functions on Cisco platforms.
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What Is CISCO-NAC-NAD-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-NAC-NAD-CAPABILITY is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES module that declares which parts of the CISCO-NAC-NAD-MIB (Network Admission Control, Network Access Device functions) are actually implemented by a given Cisco platform's SNMP agent. As an agent-capabilities module it does not itself define runtime data objects; instead it maps out variations and supported groups/compliance statements of the underlying CISCO-NAC-NAD-MIB across different Cisco device implementations. Consequently it has no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status; its purpose is purely descriptive/conformance, telling an NMS or MIB compiler which NAC NAD objects (e.g., posture validation, admission control state) are present on a given box so the actual CISCO-NAC-NAD-MIB objects can be polled appropriately. It is entirely dependent on and meaningless without its companion CISCO-NAC-NAD-MIB, which it describes. It is typically shipped alongside CISCO-NAC-NAD-MIB on Cisco switches/routers acting as Network Access Devices in a Cisco NAC deployment. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-NAC-NAD-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco switches/routers acting as Network Access Devices (NAC NAD)
Monitoring Examples
This is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module, not a source of runtime data objects, so there is no monitoring scenario to describe here; it only declares which objects/groups from CISCO-NAC-NAD-MIB a given agent implementation supports.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From INET-ADDRESS-MIB
| InetAddressType | |
| InetPortNumber |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| Unsigned32 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| TruthValue |
OIDs
RFC description
Defines SNMP agent capabilities for Cisco NAC (Network Admission Control) NAD (Network Access Device) implementations.
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