CAPWAP-BASE-MIB

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Organization: IETF Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Working Group http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/capwap-charter.html

Last Updated: 2010-04-30

Category: Wireless and WLAN

Description: Manages the CAPWAP protocol for centralized control and provisioning of wireless access points (WTPs), including WTP profiles, station ACLs, and radio event statistics.

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What Is CAPWAP-BASE-MIB?

CAPWAP-BASE-MIB is an IETF standards-track MIB (RFC 5833) defining the base managed objects for CAPWAP (Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points), the protocol by which a wireless LAN controller (Access Controller, AC) centrally manages Wireless Termination Points (WTPs, i.e. thin access points). It exposes session-capacity and current-session-count objects for both WTPs and wireless stations, security policy options for the CAPWAP data and control channels (DTLS, authentication), a table of configured AC names with priority for WTP failover, and notifications for CAPWAP events. Its monitoring role covers both operational capacity/status (how many WTPs and stations are currently connected versus the licensed/configured limit) and software-level configuration (security policy in force), which together indicate whether the controller is nearing capacity or has WTPs failing to establish sessions. As a vendor-neutral IETF MIB it is designed to be implemented alongside CAPWAP protocol binding MIBs such as CAPWAP-DOT11-MIB for technology-specific details. It is deployed on wireless LAN controllers (Access Controllers) managing fleets of CAPWAP-based thin access points, consistent with the CAPWAP-BASE-MIB RFC that defines this base object set.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CAPWAP-BASE-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

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
  • wireless LAN controller (Access Controller) managing CAPWAP access points

Monitoring Examples

An operator would compare capwapBaseWtpSessions against capwapBaseWtpSessionsLimit, and capwapBaseStationSessions against capwapBaseStationSessionsLimit, to see if the controller is approaching its licensed capacity for access points or client stations. Reviewing capwapBaseAcNameListTable/capwapBaseAcNameListEntry entries (capwapBaseAcNameListName, capwapBaseAcNameListPriority) helps confirm WTPs are configured to fail over to backup controllers in the correct priority order. Checking capwapBaseDataChannelDTLSPolicyOptions and capwapBaseControlChannelAuthenOptions confirms whether the expected encryption/authentication policy is actually enforced on the CAPWAP tunnels.

What Can Be Monitored

  • current vs limit WTP sessions
  • current vs limit station sessions
  • DTLS/authentication policy in force
  • configured AC name list and failover priority
Imported Objects

From ENTITY-MIB

PhysicalIndex

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
ifGeneralInformationGroupOBJECT-GROUP

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
PhysAddress
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

From SYSAPPL-MIB

LongUtf8String

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using capwapBaseFailedDTLSAuthFailureCount OID:

Select a Wireless LAN controllers managing CAPWAP access point 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 capwapBaseFailedDTLSAuthFailureCount into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. Represents the number of failed DTLS session establishment attempts due to authentication failures. 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 between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points MIB managing wireless device configuration and status.

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