All MIBs › CISCO-RMON-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2008-08-04
Category: Cisco Devices, Network Monitoring (RMON), SNMP Framework
Description: Declares SNMP agent capabilities for RMON remote monitoring on Cisco routing and switching platforms.
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What Is CISCO-RMON-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-RMON-CAPABILITY is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module that formally describes which parts of the standard RMON-MIB (Remote Monitoring MIB) are implemented by SNMP agents on Cisco routing and switching platforms. Rather than exposing its own data objects, it documents implementation-specific variations, limitations, and supported groups (such as RMON statistics, history, alarms, and events) of the underlying RMON-MIB on a given Cisco IOS/IOS-XE image. As a capabilities file it has no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status itself; instead it tells a management application what RMON-based traffic and error statistics that platform can actually report. It is entirely dependent on RMON-MIB (RFC 2819) since it only exists to declare that MIB's supported feature set on Cisco devices. It is used during network management system integration and MIB compliance testing to determine which RMON monitoring features (e.g., Ethernet statistics collection, history sampling, threshold alarms) are safe to configure on a particular Cisco platform/software version. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCO-RMON-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco router
- Cisco switch (IOS/IOS-XE platforms)
Monitoring Examples
This module is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES declaration with no runtime data objects of its own (no sample objects were provided), so there is no monitoring scenario to describe; it is only consulted by NMS tooling to determine which groups of RMON-MIB (such as etherStatsTable or alarmTable) a specific Cisco software release actually supports.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Cisco RMON (Remote Monitoring) capability declaration MIB; defines which RMON features Cisco devices support.
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