All MIBs › CISCO-SWITCH-HARDWARE-CAPACITY-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2014-03-03
Category: Cisco Devices, Hardware and Environment, SNMP Framework
Description: Declares agent capabilities for monitoring switch hardware resource capacity including TCAM and table utilization.
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What Is CISCO-SWITCH-HARDWARE-CAPACITY-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-SWITCH-HARDWARE-CAPACITY-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module declaring which objects of CISCO-SWITCH-HARDWARE-CAPACITY-MIB a given Cisco switch's SNMP agent implements, covering hardware resource utilization such as TCAM and forwarding-table capacity. It relates to the internal ASIC/hardware resource-monitoring feature area of Cisco switching platforms. As a capability-declaration module, it exposes no live utilization data itself; it specifies which hardware-capacity resource groups and thresholds the referenced MIB supports on that particular device, which network management systems use to decide what to poll. It is entirely dependent on its companion CISCO-SWITCH-HARDWARE-CAPACITY-MIB. It applies to Cisco switching platforms with hardware-resource capacity constraints (e.g., TCAM, MAC/ARP table space), and is used by NMS tooling for capability discovery via the CISCO-SWITCH-HARDWARE-CAPACITY-CAPABILITY MIB rather than for direct hardware health checks.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco switching platforms with hardware forwarding-resource (TCAM/table) capacity monitoring
Monitoring Examples
A management system would consult this module to confirm whether a given Cisco switch supports the hardware-resource utilization and threshold-notification groups defined in CISCO-SWITCH-HARDWARE-CAPACITY-MIB, such as TCAM utilization percentage objects, before polling or configuring alert thresholds on them. As it defines no objects of its own, there is no direct data sampled here; it only governs whether polling CISCO-SWITCH-HARDWARE-CAPACITY-MIB's TCAM/table-utilization OIDs will succeed on that platform. This helps an NMS avoid configuring capacity alerts for resource types the device doesn't actually track.
What Can Be Monitored
- CISCO-SWITCH-HARDWARE-CAPACITY-MIB object support level
- TCAM/table utilization object support
- hardware capacity conformance group support
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Switch hardware capacity management capabilities for Cisco Catalyst platforms.
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