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Category: Vendor: IBM
Description: IBM MIB for managing Remote Work Stations (RWS) on IBM AS/400 (iSeries) midrange systems.
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What Is IBM-AS400-RWS-MIB?
IBM-AS400-RWS-MIB is an IBM-specific module for managing Remote Work Stations (RWS) attached to IBM AS/400 (iSeries) midrange systems, an area tied to IBM's legacy 5250-terminal and APPC-based remote workstation connectivity. It exposes an rwsTable listing each configured remote workstation's controller name, APPC device name, and workstation type/model, alongside operational and device state fields. Its primary monitoring use is software/session status rather than hardware sensors: rwsOperState and rwsAppcDevState reveal whether a given remote workstation controller and its associated APPC device are currently active, inactive, or in error, letting an operator spot session or connectivity problems for terminals and printers attached through the AS/400. The overall rwsNumCtls count gives a quick health check on how many controllers are configured/active system-wide. This MIB depends on IBM's APPC/SNA session-management conventions for its device-state semantics and is deployed specifically on IBM AS/400 (iSeries) hosts serving remote 5250 workstations and printers. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the IBM-AS400-RWS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- IBM AS/400 (iSeries) midrange system
- attached 5250 remote workstation/printer
Monitoring Examples
An admin would poll rwsTable/rwsEntry to read rwsCtlName and rwsOperState for each controller, and rwsAppcDevName with rwsAppcDevState for the associated APPC device, catching a workstation controller whose rwsOperState has dropped from active to inactive/error. rwsType and rwsModel identify what kind of remote device (terminal or printer type) is attached, helping correlate an outage with a specific hardware model. rwsCpName gives the control-point name for the session, useful when tracing a specific failed session back to its logical unit.
What Can Be Monitored
- remote workstation controller operational state
- APPC device state
- workstation type/model
- count of configured controllers
Imported Objects
OIDs
RFC description
Vendor-private MIB for IBM AS/400 systems; manages AS/400 remote workstation (RWS) controllers such as 5494 units (note: deprecated in favor of newer enterprise MIBs).
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