RBN-RSTP-CAP

Description: Documents Ericsson SmartEdge SNMP agent capabilities for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol MIB on SmartEdge series BRAS.

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RBN-RSTP-CAP is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module published by Ericsson (formerly Redback Networks) for its SmartEdge Multi-service Edge Router, SM Metro Ethernet Service Transport, and Smart Service Router (SSR) product families, describing how those platforms implement the standard RSTP-MIB (RFC 4318) for Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol. Rather than exposing its own runtime data, it documents which groups, objects, and variations of the RSTP-MIB are supported (or restricted) on a given SEOS software release, effectively acting as a conformance statement layered on top of that IETF MIB. As such it does not directly expose device health data like uptime, temperature, CPU/memory, or power/fan status; instead it indirectly supports monitoring by telling a management station which RSTP spanning-tree state and topology-change objects it can rely on when polling the device. It is explicitly dependent on and only meaningful in conjunction with the standard RSTP-MIB from RFC 4318, which it profiles for Ericsson/Redback hardware. It is deployed alongside the base RSTP-MIB on carrier-grade SmartEdge BRAS and metro Ethernet platforms to inform NMS tooling of supported spanning-tree capabilities per SEOS release. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the RBN-RSTP-CAP file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

As an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module, RBN-RSTP-CAP defines no tables or runtime objects of its own (sample_objects is empty) -- it only cross-references object groups from the standard RSTP-MIB via SUPPORTS clauses. A network engineer would not poll this MIB directly; instead, NMS software would consult it offline to determine, for a given Ericsson SEOS release, whether objects like dot1dStpPortState or topology-change traps from RSTP-MIB are implemented on that SmartEdge/SSR platform. There is no monitoring scenario to describe beyond this conformance-declaration role.

Ericsson RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol) agent capabilities for network bridge management.