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Organization: Cisco Small Business
Last Updated: 2010-10-31
Category: Wireless/WiFi
Description: Manages Cisco Small Business Nikola series router configuration, WAN connectivity, and device status.
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What Is Nikola-MIB?
Nikola-MIB is the private MIB module definition for Cisco Small Business's "Nikola" series router product line, registered under the CISCOSB (Cisco Small Business) private enterprise tree. It establishes device identification and configuration branches for this router model, including switch/module identifiers and an rndMib branch, intended to support WAN connectivity and general device status monitoring per its short description. Because the available sample objects are largely OID-tree scaffolding (ciscosb, otherEnterprises, switch001, rndMib) rather than runtime counters, the concrete hardware/software status objects (uptime, WAN link state, etc.) it ultimately exposes are not directly evidenced in this sample, though the vendor description confirms device status and WAN connectivity are in scope. It sits within Cisco's broader private enterprise MIB tree and would be expected to reference standard IF-MIB-style interface objects for WAN status, though this is not confirmed by the given data. It is deployed on Cisco Small Business Nikola-series routers used in small office/branch office network setups, where Nikola-MIB SNMP monitoring supports basic WAN-connectivity and device-status checks.
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Supported Devices
- Cisco Small Business Nikola-series router
Monitoring Examples
The sample objects available (ciscosb, otherEnterprises, switch001, rndMib) are OID-tree/branch identifiers rather than monitorable runtime data, so a concrete polling scenario with real counter values cannot be honestly constructed from this sample alone. In practice, per the short description, an admin would use this MIB's device-status and WAN-connectivity objects to confirm the Nikola router's WAN link and general operational state, but the specific object names for that are not present in the provided sample.
Imported Objects
From RFC1155-SMI
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OIDs
RFC description
Defines OID tree for Cisco Small Business products and administrative information.
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