CISCO-PING-CAPABILITY

Description: Declares SNMP agent capabilities for ICMP ping test operations on Cisco routing and switching platforms.

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CISCO-PING-CAPABILITY is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES module that declares which parts of CISCO-PING-MIB a given Cisco IOS/IOS-XE agent implementation actually supports, rather than defining any monitoring data itself. Agent-capabilities modules exist purely for SNMP conformance/compatibility purposes, letting management systems determine feature-support boundaries (e.g., which ping test object groups are implemented) for a given software release. As such it exposes no interface, environmental, performance, or fault objects of its own and has no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status — it is a static compatibility statement, not a live data source. It is entirely dependent on and meaningless without CISCO-PING-MIB, whose object groups it references and qualifies. It is used internally by SNMP management platforms during MIB compliance/capability negotiation with Cisco routing and switching platforms, not queried directly by operators. Engineers can download the CISCO-PING-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

This is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES module with no runtime data objects — the sample_objects list is empty and the module simply maps CISCO-PING-MIB object groups to supported/unsupported status for specific Cisco software releases. There is no realistic monitoring scenario to describe for it directly; any actual ping-test polling would go against CISCO-PING-MIB itself.

Cisco vendor-private MIB defining PING tool capability objects and management for ICMP echo testing on Cisco devices.