VMWARE-AGENTCAP-MIB

Description: Defines SNMP agent capabilities, documenting which versions of VMware MIB modules are supported by specific versions of ESXi, vCenter Server, and NSX.

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VMWARE-AGENTCAP-MIB is a VMware AGENT-CAPABILITIES conformance module that documents which versions of VMware's various MIB modules are supported by specific releases of ESXi, vCenter Server, and NSX. Rather than modeling runtime data, it enumerates supported object groups per product version, which management stations use to determine feature/version compatibility when polling a VMware SNMP agent. As a conformance module it carries essentially no monitorable hardware or software status data itself, its function is purely declarative. It depends entirely on the full set of companion VMware MIBs (e.g., host, VM, and NSX-related modules) whose object groups it references by version. It's relevant when integrating VMware ESXi/vCenter/NSX SNMP agents into an NMS to confirm which MIB features a given deployment exposes. Engineers can download the VMWARE-AGENTCAP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

This is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES module, the lone sample object vmwEsxCapability is itself a capability declaration rather than a data object, so there is no runtime monitoring scenario; its purpose is solely to state which companion VMware MIB object groups a given ESXi/vCenter/NSX version implements.

Defines agent capabilities for VMware ESX platforms supporting SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 protocols.