HPN-ICF-WIPS-MIB

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Last Updated: 2011-12-29

Category: Domain: Security, Technology: Wireless, Vendor: H3C/HH3C, Vendor: HP/HPE

Description: Manages Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) rogue AP detection and countermeasure policies on HP/Comware WLAN.

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What Is HPN-ICF-WIPS-MIB?

This MIB manages the Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) feature on HP/Comware wireless LAN infrastructure, providing configuration and status for detecting rogue access points, unauthorized stations, and wireless attacks, and for applying countermeasures such as blocklisting. It belongs to the HP/H3C wireless (WLAN) MIB family and exposes global enable/license state, timing parameters for device aging and reclassification, and reset controls for trust/block/ignore lists. Its monitoring value is in software-level security posture visibility: hpnicfWIPSSensorLicenseNum confirms how many WIPS sensor licenses are active, while hpnicfWIPSAPInactiveTime/hpnicfWIPSSTAInactiveTime and hpnicfWIPSDevAgingTime reveal how the system ages out detected devices, letting an operator verify that rogue-AP and rogue-station detection is tuned appropriately and hasn't silently gone stale. It has no direct dependency on IETF standard MIBs, being a proprietary HP/H3C WLAN security feature. It is deployed on HP/Comware wireless controllers and access points protecting enterprise WLAN environments from rogue devices and wireless attacks. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the HPN-ICF-WIPS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in HPN-ICF-WIPS-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

  • HP/Comware wireless LAN controller
  • HP/Comware access point

Monitoring Examples

An operator would check hpnicfWIPSEnable and hpnicfWIPSSensorLicenseNum to confirm WIPS is active and adequately licensed across the deployed sensors, then review hpnicfWIPSBlocklistAction and hpnicfWIPSStatisticPeriod to understand how aggressively rogue devices are being countered and how often statistics refresh. If hpnicfWIPSAPInactiveTime or hpnicfWIPSSTAInactiveTime is set too long, a rogue AP or station that has actually left the area may remain listed as active, delaying detection of new threats; hpnicfWIPSResetAllBlockList and hpnicfWIPSResetAllTrustList let an administrator clear stale entries to force reclassification.

What Can Be Monitored

  • WIPS enable status
  • sensor license count
  • blocklist action policy
  • AP/station inactivity aging time
  • statistics collection period
  • trust/block/ignore list reset status
Imported Objects

From HPN-ICF-OID-MIB

hpnicfCommonOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

MacAddress
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using hpnicfWIPSChlStatTotalPkt OID:

Select a HP/Comware wireless LAN controller or access point (Wireless Intrusion Prevention System) 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 hpnicfWIPSChlStatTotalPkt 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. Represents the count of total frames in the channel. 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 Counter64-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, 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

Hewlett-Packard Wireless Intrusion Prevention System MIB for detecting wireless attacks and managing intrusion prevention policies.

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