Cpu Temperature Monitoring In Ws5000; Active Primary Revert; Access Port Ping - Symbol WS5000 Series System Reference Manual

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the necessary traffic to the WIPS server that analyzes the network for any sort of unwanted traffic and protects
against various types of Denial of Service attacks.
The idea of using AP300 is to provide an easy to deploy system for intrusion detection / prevention re-using
existing hardware (typical WIPS systems require a dedicated, expensive sensor). The AP300 needs to be
converted to a "sensor" (with a special Firmware downloaded to it).
WS5000 v2.1 addresses the requirement to integrate the capability of converting a standard AP300 to a sensor
(and back as required) from the switch itself (and not have the administrators use a standalone tool to the do
the same).
To learn more about WIPS support, refer to

1.4.9 CPU Temperature Monitoring in WS5000

Some CPU fan failures have been observed in the field; these failures are typically fatal for the processor of
the switch unless rapid servicing of the switch can take place. To assist in the detection of failure-prone
switches, WS5000 Series 2.1 will expose the following information through the different interfaces:
• The CPU temperature
• The CPU fan speed
• The chassis fans
• The Chassis temperature
This information is available via the CLI, SNMP, Applet, and XML interface for the WS5100 platform. This
functionality will also be available for the WS5000 (SME) platform in WS5000 v2.1.
Additionally to help identify switches that are about to fail, the switch will poll the hardware every 30 seconds.
An event will be generated when threshold values are passed. As for other events, this may result in a syslog
message and/or an SNMP trap depending on the event manager configuration. On the WS5100 platform, this
will also result in an "alert" visual indication on the LEDs.
Refer to Chassis Context on page 8-170

1.4.10 Active Primary Revert

Support issuing '
set mode rev
for troubleshooting a suspected issue with the Primary "Active" box.
Refer to Standby Context on page 8-273

1.4.11 Access Port Ping

This will allow the Admin to ping an Access Port - at Layer 2 (the access port does not support IP). This uses
Symbol's WNMP protocol's Ping Request and Ping Response to check the connectivity between the switch and
the access port.
Refer to rfping in Chapter 9, Service Mode CLI
Converting an AP300 into a Sensor on page
to configure the CPU tempreture in WS5000.
', from the "cfg> standby" context with an "Active" Primary. This is needed
to configure the Auto Revert feature.
learn more about rfping.
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