All MIBs › CISCO-RMON2-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2003-10-01
Category: Cisco Devices, Network Monitoring (RMON), SNMP Framework
Description: Declares SNMP agent capabilities for RMON2 application-layer traffic monitoring on Cisco network platforms.
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What Is CISCO-RMON2-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-RMON2-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module that declares which parts of the standard RMON2-MIB (remote network monitoring, application-layer traffic analysis) a given Cisco device or IOS release actually implements. It belongs to Cisco's routing/switching platform family and the broader IETF RMON (Remote Network Monitoring) technology area. Rather than exposing live counters or configuration itself, it enumerates supported groups, tables, and variations of RMON2-MIB so a management station can determine feature support before polling. As a capabilities statement it carries no monitorable runtime data of its own — no uptime, temperature, CPU, memory, power, disk, or process/service objects — its role is purely to describe agent support for the referenced MIB. The CISCO-RMON2-CAPABILITY MIB has an explicit dependency on RMON2-MIB (RFC 2021) and is typically consulted by NMS tools during MIB compatibility discovery, bundled in Cisco IOS/IOS-XE images on routers and switches.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco IOS/IOS-XE routers and switches
Monitoring Examples
As an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module, CISCO-RMON2-CAPABILITY defines no runtime data objects of its own (sample_objects is empty) — it only cross-references OBJECT-GROUP and MODULE-COMPLIANCE clauses from RMON2-MIB to state which are supported. There is no realistic 'poll this counter' scenario for it; an NMS instead reads it once to learn feature support before deciding whether to enable RMON2 application-layer monitoring on the device.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Documents RMON2 agent capabilities and supported features on Cisco switches and network devices.
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