All MIBs › TUBS-IBR-AGENT-CAPABILITIES
Organization: TU Braunschweig
Last Updated: 2000-02-09
Category: Network Management and SNMP Infrastructure, TU Braunschweig Research MIBs
Description: Defines TU Braunschweig IBR SNMP agent capability statements for supported MIB compliance levels.
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What Is TUBS-IBR-AGENT-CAPABILITIES?
TUBS-IBR-AGENT-CAPABILITIES is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module from the TU Braunschweig Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks (IBR), describing which MIB modules and compliance levels a particular experimental SNMP agent implementation supports (e.g. for Linux-based agents). As an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module it defines no runtime data objects at all; it purely documents supported object groups and variations for interoperability and tooling purposes. It has no monitoring value for hardware or software status directly; instead it is metadata describing what a given agent build claims to implement, useful to management tools deciding which OIDs are safe to poll on that agent. It inherently depends on and cross-references the other TUBS-IBR MIB modules (such as TUBS-LINUX-MIB and TUBS-IBR-PING-MIB) whose support it declares. It is typically used in academic/research SNMP agent deployments, particularly Linux-based agents built with the TU Braunschweig TNM/IBR toolkit, where researchers consult the TUBS-IBR-AGENT-CAPABILITIES MIB to confirm exactly which object groups a given agent build claims to support.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
- Linux-based SNMP agent host
Monitoring Examples
This is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES module with no runtime data objects, so it cannot be honestly described as offering a monitoring scenario; its 'linux' sample object simply reflects that it documents capability statements for a Linux-targeted agent implementation. It would be consulted by a management application at configuration time to determine which object groups (e.g. from TUBS-LINUX-MIB) a given agent instance actually implements before attempting to poll them.
Imported Objects
OIDs
RFC description
TUBS MIB documenting SNMP agent capabilities for Internet Backbone Router functionality.
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