Pre-Requisites; Viewing The Mib Objects; Configuring The Mib Objects; To Configure The Scalar Objects - Proxim ORiNOCO AP-8000 User Manual

Using SNMP Interface to Manage the Access
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-layer protocol designed to facilitate the exchange
of management information between the network devices. It is a part of the TCP/IP protocol and is most commonly used
by the Network Administrators.
SNMP MIB (Management Information Base) is a collection of various network objects that can be accessed using a
network-management protocol such as SNMP. MIB supports two types of network objects:
• Scalar Object: Scalar object is a single object instance.
• Tabular Object: Tabular object is a multiple object instance that are grouped in MIB table.
SNMP is a client-server network management architecture. A server requests information from a client's MIB. A particular
MIB defines few Object Identifiers (OIDs) which are used to request information from a client.
NOTE: Refer to the supplementary document for MIB description.

Pre-requisites

Listed below are the pre-requisites before configuring the AP device using MIB browser.
• Ensure that you have configured the IP address of the AP device in the MIB browser. Proxim provides the MIB along
with the CD.
NOTE: Proxim recommends to use Proxim Vision ES (PVES) to make configuration changes. If you want to browse
the MIB, then Proxim recommends to use NuDesign.
• Configure the version of SNMP as V2c.
• Configure the Port Number. By default the port number is set to 161.
• Configure the Read Community Password. By default, the password is "public".
• Configure the Read/Write Community Password. By default, the password is "public".
NOTE: To receive traps, MgmtSnmpTrapHostTablePassword should be same as MgmtSNMPTeadPassword.

Viewing the MIB Objects

1. After configuring the pre-requisite information, load the MIB file.
2. Navigate to Proxim under the private node.
• To view all the objects, right-click and select Walk. This will display all the default and configured objects.
• To view a particular object, select a particular object, right-click and click Get. This will display the selected
configured object.

Configuring the MIB Objects

To Configure the Scalar Objects

1. Select the object, right-click and click Set. This will display the existing configured values.
2. To make changes to the existing value, double-click the object. This displays the list of values for configuration. Select
the desired values and click Ok.
3. Click Execute to store the changes in the temporary buffer and proceed to SysMgmtCfgCommit table to Commit the
changes.

To Configure the Tabular Objects

1. Select the object, right-click and click Get Table. This displays the Table List.
2. From the menu, click Set and drag the table entry for which you want to make the changes to the Set window.
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