All MIBs › CISCO-VPC-CAPABILITY
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Last Updated: 2013-07-10
Category: SNMP Framework, Vendor: Cisco Devices
Description: Defines agent capability statements for Cisco Virtual Port Channel (vPC) feature on Nexus switches.
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What Is CISCO-VPC-CAPABILITY?
CISCO-VPC-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module describing which parts of CISCO-VPC-MIB (Virtual Port Channel, a Cisco NX-OS feature for dual-homed link aggregation across two Nexus switches) a particular device/software release implements. It contains no managed objects of its own; instead it enumerates supported object groups and compliance statements for the vPC feature. Its practical monitoring role is indirect: NMS tools consult it to know whether vPC peer-status, consistency-check, or role objects are queryable on a given Nexus platform before polling, rather than exposing uptime, temperature, or counters directly. It depends entirely on and has no meaning apart from CISCO-VPC-MIB, which defines the actual vPC domain, peer-link, and consistency-check objects. It is relevant wherever Cisco Nexus switches are deployed in vPC dual-homed topologies for data-center network redundancy. Engineers can download the CISCO-VPC-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral capabilities declaration — applies to Cisco Nexus switches running vPC
Monitoring Examples
A management station would consult this module to determine whether a given Nexus switch's agent implements the vPC peer-status and type-1/type-2 consistency-check groups from CISCO-VPC-MIB before attempting to poll peer-link state or role (primary/secondary) objects, avoiding failed GETs against unsupported vPC features on older software.
What Can Be Monitored
- supported vPC MIB object groups
- vPC compliance level per platform/release
Imported Objects
From CISCO-SMI
| ciscoAgentCapability | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| AGENT-CAPABILITIES |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Cisco Virtual Port Channel (vPC) agent capability definitions for Nexus switch redundancy.
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