CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB :: cucsVnicEtherPurpose

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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cucsVnicEtherPurpose

Module: CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB

OID (symbolic): CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB::cucsVnicEtherPurpose

OID (numeric): 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1.53.9.1.42

Node type: OBJECT-TYPE

Type: CucsAdaptorPurpose

Access: read-only

Description: Cisco UCS vnic:Ether:purpose managed object property

What is cucsVnicEtherPurpose?

This read-only CucsAdaptorPurpose value reports the special purpose (if any) this vNIC serves, for example being reserved for a particular management or utility function. Some vNICs are reserved by UCS Manager for internal purposes rather than general data traffic, so this field tells an admin whether a given vNIC is safe to repurpose or should be left alone. For the vNIC named 'eth0' on service profile 'SP-WEB03', pinned to fabric interconnect A with a 9000-byte MTU, this OID reporting a non-general purpose value would warn an admin not to reassign that vNIC's VLANs for ordinary application traffic.

Examples

Walk all instances (SNMPv2c):

snmpwalk -v2c -c public <target> 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1.53.9.1.42
snmpwalk -v2c -c public <target> CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB::cucsVnicEtherPurpose

Get a specific instance (index 1):

snmpget -v2c -c public <target> 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1.53.9.1.42.1
snmpget -v2c -c public <target> CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB::cucsVnicEtherPurpose.1

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OID Breakdown

Upper-level ancestors (10 from the standard OID tree / other modules)
Numeric OIDNameModule
1isoLANART-AGENT
1.3orgAirPair-MIB
1.3.6dodAirPair-MIB
1.3.6.1internetAirPair-MIB
1.3.6.1.4privateAirPair-MIB
1.3.6.1.4.1enterprisesAirPair-MIB
1.3.6.1.4.1.9ciscoCAT2600-MIB
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9ciscoMgmtCISCO-SMI
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719ciscoUnifiedComputingMIBCISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-MIB
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1ciscoUnifiedComputingMIBObjectsCISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-MIB
Numeric OIDNameModule
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1.53cucsVnicObjectsCISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1.53.9cucsVnicEtherTableCISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1.53.9.1cucsVnicEtherEntryCISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1.53.9.1.42cucsVnicEtherPurposeCISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB