ALVARION-PUBLIC-ACCESS-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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Organization: Alvarion Ltd.

Last Updated: 2007-10-31

Category: Vendor: Alvarion, Wireless and WLAN

Description: Alvarion public access (hotspot) MIB for managing captive portal, subscriber sessions, and billing integration.

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What Is ALVARION-PUBLIC-ACCESS-MIB?

ALVARION-PUBLIC-ACCESS-MIB is a vendor MIB from Alvarion for its wireless broadband devices, used to manage public access (hotspot-style) captive portal features, including subscriber session status, credentials, session timeout, accounting, and billing integration. It exposes objects for overall public access status and the cause of status changes, per-device user credentials, session timeout admin/operational status, configuration mode, authentication profile linkage, and accounting/billing enablement. Its monitoring role is largely software/service status - whether the public access feature is currently enabled and functioning, how many users are permitted, and whether accounting/billing integration is active, important for verifying hotspot service availability rather than physical hardware health. It relies on integration with AAA/RADIUS-style authentication and accounting infrastructure (referenced via profile indices) similar to the related ALVARION-AAA-CLIENT-MIB. It's typically deployed on Alvarion wireless broadband access points/base stations offering public Wi-Fi or WiMAX hotspot access, where ALVARION-PUBLIC-ACCESS-MIB SNMP monitoring confirms hotspot service availability and accounting integration.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in ALVARION-PUBLIC-ACCESS-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • Alvarion wireless broadband access points/base stations (public Wi-Fi/WiMAX hotspot deployments)

Monitoring Examples

An admin polls publicAccessStatus and publicAccessStatusChangedCause to determine whether the hotspot service is currently up and, if it recently went down, why. publicAccessDeviceSessionTimeoutOperStatus versus its Admin counterpart reveals whether configured session timeout policies are actually being enforced, and publicAccessDeviceAccountingEnabled combined with publicAccessDeviceAccountingProfileIndex confirms billing/accounting data is being generated for active sessions; publicAccessUsersMaxCount helps detect when a site is nearing its subscriber capacity limit.

What Can Be Monitored

  • public access service status
  • status change cause
  • session timeout admin/operational status
  • accounting/billing enablement
  • maximum concurrent users
Imported Objects

From ALVARION-SMI

alvarionMgmtV2OBJECT-IDENTITY

From ALVARION-TC

AlvarionNotificationEnable
AlvarionPriorityQueue
AlvarionProfileIndexOrZero
AlvarionSSIDOrNone
AlvarionSecurity
AlvarionUsersAuthenticationMode
AlvarionUsersAuthenticationType

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
MacAddress
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using publicAccessUserSessionDuration OID:

Select an Alvarion (Cambium) wireless broadband access points/base station (legacy) as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type publicAccessUserSessionDuration into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. Indicates how long the user's session has been active. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline (in seconds), since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Manages public access authentication system status, device configuration, and user authentication for Alvarion wireless networks.

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