HP Cisco MDS 9020 Cisco MDS 9000 Family MIB Quick Reference (OL-18087-01, Febr - Page 7
AGENT-CAPABILITIES, About Cisco MIB Files
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Send documentation comments to [email protected] AGENT-CAPABILITIES In SNMP, capabilities files provide implementation details for the associated MIB. These files, called AGENT-CAPABILITIES, list supported conformance groups and any deviations from the MIB as implemented in the associated software version. For instance, the CISCO-AAA-SERVER-CAPABILITY provides the implementation details for the CISCO-AAA-SERVER-MIB, as implemented in the Cisco MDS NX-OS or SAN-OS. Note Capabilities files may have implementation details for more than one software release. You need to match your software release to the corresponding AGENT-CAPABILITIES clause in this file. About Cisco MIB Files The Cisco MDS 9000 Family MIB files can be obtained by File Transfer Protocol (FTP) from http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml, under Cisco Storage Networking. Cisco MIB files are a set of objects that are private extensions to the IETF standard MIB II. MIB II is documented in RFC 1213, Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based Internets: MIB-II. Portions of MIB-II have been updated since RFC 1213. See the IETF website http://www.ietf.org for the latest updates to this MIB. If your NMS cannot get requested information from a managed device, such as a Cisco switch, the MIB that allows that specific data collection might be missing. Typically, if an NMS cannot retrieve a particular MIB variable, either the NMS does not recognize the MIB variable, or the agent does not support the MIB variable. If the NMS does not recognize a specified MIB variable, you might need to load the MIB into the NMS, usually with a MIB compiler. For example, you might need to load the Cisco private MIB or the supported RFC MIB into the NMS to execute a specified data collection. If the agent does not support a specified MIB variable, you must find out what version of system software you are running. Different software releases support different MIBs. Note Cisco and IETF MIBs are updated frequently. You should download the latest MIBs from http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml whenever you upgrade your Cisco MDS NX-OS or SAN-OS. Americas Headquarters: Cisco Systems, Inc., 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA © Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.