CISCO-P-BRIDGE-CAPABILITY

Description: Declares SNMP agent capabilities for Provider Bridge (802.1ad) management on Cisco switching platforms.

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CISCO-P-BRIDGE-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module describing which objects of the standard IETF P-BRIDGE-MIB (802.1D/802.1ad Provider Bridge extensions) a Cisco device implements. It carries no runtime data itself, only SUPPORTS statements mapping Cisco agent versions to P-BRIDGE-MIB object groups and variations. Because it is a pure conformance module it plays no role in monitoring hardware or software status directly -- that function belongs to P-BRIDGE-MIB, which this module merely qualifies. It is entirely dependent on the standards-based P-BRIDGE-MIB (and by extension the 802.1D/802.1ad bridging standards) for any operational meaning. It is used by management stations compiling MIBs for Cisco Layer 2 switches supporting provider bridging, making the CISCO-P-BRIDGE-CAPABILITY MIB a reference point during that compilation process.

This module contains only AGENT-CAPABILITIES SUPPORTS clauses referencing P-BRIDGE-MIB groups; it has no tables or scalars of its own to poll. No monitoring scenario applies — its sole use is to inform an NMS which provider-bridge objects are implemented on a given Cisco switch.

Cisco-specific agent capability MIB describing support for IEEE 802.1D Priority and Multicast Filtering bridge extensions on Catalyst platforms.