All MIBs › CISCO-PROCESS-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2013-08-29
Category: Cisco Devices, Device Management, Hardware and Environment, SNMP Framework
Description: Declares agent capabilities for process and CPU utilization monitoring on Cisco IOS and NX-OS platforms.
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What Is CISCO-PROCESS-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-PROCESS-CAPABILITY is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module that declares which parts of the CISCO-PROCESS-MIB a given Cisco IOS or NX-OS agent implementation actually supports, rather than defining any data objects of its own. It exposes no tables, scalars, or notifications for monitoring; instead it is metadata consumed by SNMP management tools to determine feature/object support level for process and CPU utilization monitoring on a specific platform or software release. It therefore has no direct role in exposing hardware/software runtime status itself - its purpose is entirely about declaring compliance with the CISCO-PROCESS-MIB standard, which is the MIB that actually provides CPU/process load data. It has an explicit and total dependency on CISCO-PROCESS-MIB, whose object definitions it references and constrains support for. It is typically used internally by NMS/SNMP tooling and MIB compilers to determine which CISCO-PROCESS-MIB objects are safe to poll against a given Cisco device's software version, rather than being polled directly by an admin, since the CISCO-PROCESS-CAPABILITY MIB itself defines no monitorable data of its own.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco IOS and NX-OS network devices (conformance declaration only, not device-specific data)
Monitoring Examples
As an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module, CISCO-PROCESS-CAPABILITY defines no runtime data objects (no tables, scalars, or notifications) and cannot itself be polled for monitoring data; it only declares which objects and groups of the companion CISCO-PROCESS-MIB (such as CPU/process utilization tables) are implemented on a given device/software release.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Documents agent capabilities and supported features for Cisco process monitoring across various IOS and platform versions.
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