All MIBs › CISCO-SWITCH-NETFLOW-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2012-09-11
Category: Cisco Devices, Network Monitoring (RMON), SNMP Framework
Description: Declares agent capabilities for NetFlow hardware flow export functionality on Cisco Catalyst switches.
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What Is CISCO-SWITCH-NETFLOW-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-SWITCH-NETFLOW-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module that documents which parts of the companion CISCO-SWITCH-NETFLOW-MIB a particular Cisco Catalyst switch's SNMP agent implements, covering hardware-based NetFlow flow-export functionality. As an agent-capabilities module it defines no runtime data objects of its own; it is purely metadata describing implementation support (groups, variations, and value ranges) for network management systems and MIB compilers. Consequently it plays no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status; no uptime, temperature, CPU, or interface counters are exposed here, its function is limited to conformance declaration. Its entire purpose is dependent on the CISCO-SWITCH-NETFLOW-MIB, which defines the actual NetFlow configuration and statistics objects this capabilities statement describes support for. It is used only by management software during MIB support discovery, not queried for live operational data on the switch. Engineers can download the CISCO-SWITCH-NETFLOW-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco Catalyst switches (NetFlow feature)
Monitoring Examples
This is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES module, not a data-bearing MIB, so it contains no tables or scalar objects that would be polled in a monitoring scenario. Network management systems reference it only to determine which NetFlow-related groups and objects from CISCO-SWITCH-NETFLOW-MIB a given switch's agent actually supports. There is no runtime data to describe here; live NetFlow statistics would instead be found in CISCO-SWITCH-NETFLOW-MIB itself.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-QOS-PIB-MIB
| Percent |
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| Unsigned32 |
OIDs
RFC description
Cisco agent capability statement for NetFlow monitoring on Catalyst switches, describing support for switching fabric NetFlow data export.
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