Integrating Awms With An Existing Network Management Solution (Nms) - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

Figure 30 AMP Setup > ACS > Add/Edit Details Page Illustration
3. Complete the settings on AMP Setup > ACS > Add/Edit Details.
Table 33 AMP Setup > ACS > Add/Edit Details Fields and Default Values
Field
IP/Hostname
Protocol
Port
Username
Password
Polling Period
4. Select Add to finish creating the new ACS server, or Save to finish editing an existing ACS server.
5. The ACS server must have logging enabled for passed authentications. Enable the Log to CSV Passed
Authentications report option, as follows:
Log in to the ACS server, select System Configuration, then in the Select frame, select Logging.
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Under Enable Logging, select CSV Passed Authentications. The default logging options function and
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support AWMS. These include the two columns AWMS requires: User-Name and Caller-ID.
What Next?
Go to additional tabs in the AMP Setup section to continue additional setup configurations.
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Complete the required configurations in this chapter before proceeding. Dell support remains available to you for
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any phase of AWMS installation.
Integrating AWMS with an Existing Network Management Solution
(NMS)
This is an optional configuration. The AMP Setup > NMS configuration page allows AWMS to integrate with
other Network Management Solution (NMS) consoles. This configuration enables advanced and interoperable
functionality as follows:
AWMS can forward WLAN-related SNMP traps to the NMS, or AWMS can send SNMPv1 or SNMPv2 traps
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to the NMS.
AWMS can be used in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve Manager.
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The necessary files for either type of NMS interoperability are downloaded from the AMP Setup > NMS page
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as follows. For additional information, contact support.
Perform these steps to configure NMS support in AWMS:
62 | Configuring AWMS
Default Description
None Sets the DNS name or the IP address of the ACS Server.
HTTP Launches a drop-down menu specifying the protocol AWMS uses when it polls the ACS server.
2002 Sets the port through which AWMS communicates with the ACS.
AWMS generally communicates via SNMP traps on port 162.
None Sets the Username of the account AWMS uses to poll the ACS server.
None Sets the password of the account AWMS uses to poll the ACS server.
10 min Launches a drop-down menu that specifies how frequently AWMS polls the ACS server for
username information.
Table 33 describes these fields:
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