All MIBs › CISCO-OTN-IF-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2007-10-20
Category: Cisco Devices, Optical and WDM, SNMP Framework
Description: Declares agent capabilities for OTN (Optical Transport Network / G.709) interface management on Cisco platforms.
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What Is CISCO-OTN-IF-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-OTN-IF-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module declaring which objects of the CISCO-OTN-IF-MIB a given Cisco platform's agent implements for Optical Transport Network (OTN/ITU-T G.709) interface management. It carries no operational data of its own; it exists solely to state which OTN interface objects -- likely covering framing, FEC status, and optical layer parameters defined in the base MIB -- are supported on a given device and software combination. As a capabilities-only module it plays no direct role in hardware/software health monitoring itself, but it governs which OTN fault and performance data (e.g. optical signal degrade, FEC error counts) a management station can rely on from the companion CISCO-OTN-IF-MIB. It is entirely dependent on, and only interpretable alongside, CISCO-OTN-IF-MIB and the underlying ITU-T G.709 OTN standard. It would typically be consulted during NMS onboarding for Cisco optical transport platforms. Engineers can download the CISCO-OTN-IF-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco optical transport platforms supporting OTN/G.709 interfaces
Monitoring Examples
There are no monitorable runtime objects in this module; it is strictly a conformance/capabilities declaration. Management tooling would consult it to determine, ahead of deployment, which OTN interface objects (such as optical layer status or FEC error counters) from CISCO-OTN-IF-MIB are actually implemented on a specific Cisco optical platform's software version. No monitoring scenario applies.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Defines SNMP agent capabilities for Cisco OTN (Optical Transport Network) interfaces on DWDM equipment, including controller, OTN, and FEC parameters.
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