Cisco Cisco MGX 8880 Media Gateway

Cisco is adopting the Unique Device Identifier (UDI) product identification standard. UDI is an asset 
management feature that helps Cisco customers better track their Cisco products. Using UDIs, customers 
can further automate electronic inventory systems and better calculate uptime, thus reducing operating 
expenses.

The UDI is a combination of identifiers that create a unique value. The UDI includes the orderable 
Product Identifier (PID), the hardware version identifier (VID), and the product serial number (SN).

MGX releases 5.0.10 and higher support the Cisco-wide UDI initiative. To be compliant with this 
initiative, the following enhancements have been made for various physical entities, which include 
non-legacy service modules, switch chassis, and backplanes:

Five MIB objects of the entityPhysicalTable (in Entity MIB) are populated to provide information 
about the physical entity in accordance with UDI specifications. Of these five fields, the following 
combination is called the UDI:

PID (18 Characters) + VID (3 Characters) + SN (11 Characters).

Though the entityPhysical MIB table can be retrieved to view the above mentioned objects, a new 
CLI command, show inventory, is required by the UDI initiative. The new command's syntax and 
output fully conform to UDI standards.

For questions about UDI, contact udi-info@cisco.com.

For older service modules, the VID field is not available because VID was not programmed into older 
service modules’ NVRAM. Thus, this object is likely to be missing from older service modules, making 
older modules non-compliant. 

UDI is supported on platforms with MGX release 5.0.10 or higher. The feature is supported on:

MGX 8880

 

This section contains SCT file information for Release 5.0.20. 

The following are the AXSM and AXSM/B files:

SCT 2: Policing enabled, PNNI 

SCT 3: Policing disabled, PNNI 

SCT 4: Policing enabled, MPLS and PNNI 

SCT 5: Policing disabled, MPLS and PNNI