CISCO-SWITCH-STATS-CAPABILITY

Description: Declares agent capabilities for switch port and ASIC statistics collection on Cisco Catalyst platforms.

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This is a Cisco AGENT-CAPABILITIES module that declares which portions of the companion CISCO-SWITCH-STATS-MIB are implemented by a given Cisco Catalyst switch's SNMP agent, rather than defining any data objects itself. As a conformance/capabilities statement, it does not expose runtime monitoring data such as interface statistics, environment sensors, or performance counters directly. It exists purely to help management stations determine which switch-port and ASIC statistics groups are supported on a specific Catalyst software/hardware combination, so it has no bearing on monitoring uptime, temperature, CPU, or other live device status. It depends entirely on CISCO-SWITCH-STATS-MIB (and the AGENT-CAPABILITIES/SNMPv2-CONF framework) for its meaning. It is typically referenced by NMS tools during MIB compatibility checks rather than polled for live status. Engineers can download the CISCO-SWITCH-STATS-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

This module has no runtime data objects (sample_objects is empty) since it is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module; it only maps supported groups/variations of CISCO-SWITCH-STATS-MIB to specific Cisco product/software releases. There is no realistic monitoring scenario to describe beyond a management system consulting it to confirm which switch-stats MIB features are present before attempting to poll them.

Defines SNMP agent capability statements for Cisco switch statistics MIB implementations.