Chapter 6 Advanced Screen

The managed devices contain object variables/managed objects that define each piece of information to be collected about a device. Examples of variables include such as number of packets received, node port status etc. A Management Information Base (MIB) is a collection of managed objects. SNMP allows a manager and agents to communicate for the purpose of accessing these objects.

SNMP itself is a simple request/response protocol based on the manager/agent model. The manager issues a request and the agent returns responses using the following protocol operations:

Get - Allows the manager to retrieve an object variable from the agent.

GetNext - Allows the manager to retrieve the next object variable from a table or list within an agent. In SNMPv1, when a manager wants to retrieve all elements of a table from an agent, it initiates a Get operation, followed by a series of GetNext operations.

Set - Allows the manager to set values for object variables within an agent.

Trap - Used by the agent to inform the manager of some events.

6.1.1SNMP Traps

The NXC-8160 can send the following traps to the SNMP manager.

Table 20 SNMP Traps

TRAP NAME

DESCRIPTION

Configured and connected APs of

This trap is sent when an AP is disconnected or connected

channel [<channel number>]

from/to the WLAN controller.

 

 

AP <ap number in hex base> has

This trap is sent when an AP is connected to the WLAN

been connected

controller.

 

 

AP <ap number in hex base> has

This trap is sent when an AP is disconnected from the WLAN

been disconnected

controller.

 

 

Reference Host is up

This trap is sent when the referenced host is up.

 

 

Reference Host is down

This trap is sent when the referenced host is down.

 

 

Standby Switch is up

This trap is sent when the backup WLAN controller is up.

 

 

Standby Switch is down

This trap is sent when the backup WLAN controller is down.

 

 

Inactive - Reference Host is down

This trap is sent when the referenced host is down and the main

 

WLAN controller becomes inactive.

 

 

Inactive Standby Switch - Main

This trap is sent when the backup WLAN controller is deactived

Switch is up

because the main WLAN controller becomes active.

 

 

Main Switch is active again

This trap is sent when the main WLAN controller becomes

 

active again.

 

 

Failure detected in Main Switch -

This trap is sent when the main WLAN controller is down and

Switching Over

then the backup WLAN controller is enabled.

 

 

6.2 Configuring the Advanced Screen

Click Advanced to display the screen as shown.

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