CISCO-VISM-MODULE-CAPABILITY

Description: Declares agent capability statements for Cisco VISM module-level management MIB across MGX platform releases.

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CISCO-VISM-MODULE-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module that documents which objects and groups of the separate CISCO-VISM-MODULE-MIB are actually implemented by specific Cisco VISM firmware/software releases on the MGX platform. As a conformance/capability declaration, it does not define or expose any monitoring objects of its own; instead it enumerates supported variations for different VISM release levels. It therefore plays no direct role in monitoring hardware or software runtime status — its purpose is purely to inform network management systems which capabilities of the base MIB a given agent version supports, aiding interoperability rather than data collection. It is inherently dependent on, and meaningless without, the corresponding CISCO-VISM-MODULE-MIB whose object support it describes. Typical deployment context is within NMS tooling that needs to validate feature/version compatibility before polling a Cisco VISM module on an MGX chassis. Engineers can download the CISCO-VISM-MODULE-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

This module contains no runtime data objects and defines only AGENT-CAPABILITIES statements, so there is no monitoring scenario to describe. It is honestly a compliance/version-support declaration rather than a source of pollable status. An NMS would consult it only to determine, at configuration time, which CISCO-VISM-MODULE-MIB objects a given VISM agent release actually supports.

Cisco VISM module agent capabilities and feature support matrix for voice/data gateway modules.