All MIBs › CISCO-VIDEO-SESSION-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2011-05-24
Category: Cisco Devices, SNMP Framework, Telephony and VoIP
Description: Declares agent capabilities for video session management including codec, bandwidth, and call statistics on Cisco platforms.
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What Is CISCO-VIDEO-SESSION-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-VIDEO-SESSION-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES declaration for CISCO-VIDEO-SESSION-MIB, meaning it does not itself define managed objects but documents which parts of the referenced video-session MIB a given Cisco agent implementation actually supports. It exists purely as metadata for SNMP management stations to determine feature support (codec negotiation, bandwidth accounting, call statistics) before attempting to poll the underlying video-session objects. As such it has no direct role in reporting hardware/software status itself; its value is in preventing NMS tools from querying unsupported objects on a given platform. It is tightly coupled to and meaningless without CISCO-VIDEO-SESSION-MIB, which it describes compliance for. The CISCO-VIDEO-SESSION-CAPABILITY MIB appears in the MIB set of Cisco voice/video gateway and telepresence-capable platforms alongside the MIB it qualifies.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral, standards-based capabilities module — describes Cisco video/voice gateway and telepresence platforms
Monitoring Examples
A network management system would read this capabilities module to learn, for a specific Cisco device/software release, whether groups covering codec type, call bandwidth, or session statistics from CISCO-VIDEO-SESSION-MIB are implemented, before issuing GET requests for those objects. Without consulting it, an NMS might poll a video-bandwidth or codec object that the agent silently does not support, producing noSuchObject errors instead of real data.
What Can Be Monitored
- supported video-session MIB groups
- codec capability support
- bandwidth accounting support
- call statistics support
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Cisco MIB module for managing video session capabilities in converged broadband routers and video management systems, supporting video session capability detection and fallback to audio-only connections.
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