All MIBs › CISCO-VIRTUAL-SWITCH-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2012-09-07
Category: Cisco Devices, SNMP Framework
Description: Declares agent capability statements for Cisco Virtual Switching System (VSS) management MIB on Catalyst platforms.
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What Is CISCO-VIRTUAL-SWITCH-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-VIRTUAL-SWITCH-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module for Cisco IOS/Catalyst switches supporting Virtual Switching System (VSS) technology, describing which parts of the companion CISCO-VIRTUAL-SWITCH-MIB a given agent implementation supports. Rather than exposing operational data itself, it declares implementation scope — a compliance/compatibility statement rather than a source of interface, environmental, or performance counters. It does not directly surface hardware/software runtime status such as uptime, temperature, CPU load, or software version; it simply enumerates which VSS objects and notifications a management station can expect to poll. It is entirely dependent on CISCO-VIRTUAL-SWITCH-MIB, whose object groups and notifications it references and constrains. This module is used by NMS tooling during capability negotiation/compliance checks on Cisco Catalyst switches running VSS, rather than in routine monitoring dashboards. Engineers can download the CISCO-VIRTUAL-SWITCH-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco Catalyst switches (VSS-capable)
Monitoring Examples
This is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES/conformance module with no runtime data objects of its own (sample_objects is empty), so there is no monitoring scenario to describe honestly beyond noting that it only declares which VSS objects an agent implements.
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
| SnmpAdminString |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| Unsigned32 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| RowStatus |
OIDs
RFC description
Specifies SNMP agent capabilities for Cisco Virtual Switch MIB on Catalyst 6000/6500 series devices.
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