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Organization: Cisco Small Business
Last Updated: 2008-03-16
Category: Device Management, Vendor: RADLAN/Cisco SB
Description: Manages Cisco Small Business switch login banner message configuration for CLI and web interface.
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What Is CISCOSB-BANNER-MIB?
CISCOSB-BANNER-MIB is a Cisco Small Business switch MIB that manages configuration of login banner messages shown on CLI, web (HTTP/HTTPS), and console/Telnet/SSH interfaces. It exposes primarily configuration data: the banner text itself, dynamic placeholders like hostname or domain, and display/formatting instructions such as bold, inverse, or blink, along with which connection types display the banner. This is a configuration-management MIB rather than a hardware/performance-monitoring one, so it does not surface uptime, temperature, CPU, or fault data; its monitoring value is limited to verifying banner configuration state (e.g., confirming a compliance banner is correctly set) rather than tracking device health. It has no significant dependency on other MIBs beyond standard Cisco Small Business MIB conventions. It is typically deployed on Cisco SMB switches where administrators need to enforce legal or informational login banners across Telnet, SSH, console, and web management access. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the CISCOSB-BANNER-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco Small Business switches
Monitoring Examples
No sample objects were listed in the source data for this module, so specific object names cannot be confirmed. Based on the description, an admin would poll or set banner-text and banner-display-mode objects to verify the correct login banner (e.g., a legal notice) is configured and applied to the intended access methods (Telnet/SSH/console/web). This is a configuration-verification use case rather than a fault/performance monitoring one.
What Can Be Monitored
- login banner text configuration
- banner display mode per connection type (Telnet/SSH/console/web)
Imported Objects
From CISCOSB-MIB
| switch001 | MODULE-IDENTITY |
From P-BRIDGE-MIB
| EnabledStatus |
From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
| SnmpAdminString |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| RowStatus | |
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
OIDs
RFC description
Cisco Small Business private SNMP MIB module for configuring and managing system banner messages displayed during authentication and connection events on Cisco switches, supporting dynamic content and display options.
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