KBRIDGE-MIB

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Organization: KarlNet Incorporated

Last Updated: 2002-01-28

Category: Wireless and WLAN

Description: KarlNet Incorporated MIB for managing wireless bridge configuration and link status on KarlNet Wi-Fi bridging products.

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What Is KBRIDGE-MIB?

KBRIDGE-MIB is a KarlNet Incorporated enterprise MIB for managing KarlNet's wireless Ethernet bridging products, which were used to extend LANs over point-to-point or point-to-multipoint wireless radio links. The available source only identifies the module's placement in KarlNet's enterprise OID tree and does not list concrete object or table names, but modules of this kind typically expose radio/link configuration and wireless link status. Its likely purpose is to help confirm whether a wireless bridge link is up and performing acceptably, i.e., monitoring the software/link-layer status of the bridging function rather than deep hardware sensor data. No explicit dependency on other standard MIBs is indicated. It would have been deployed on KarlNet wireless bridge units linking remote LAN segments, largely a legacy product line by current standards, though the KBRIDGE-MIB download is still available for administrators maintaining these older wireless bridges.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in KBRIDGE-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

  • KarlNet wireless Ethernet bridge

Monitoring Examples

No usable sample object names were provided for this module (the source objects list is empty/placeholder), so a concrete polling example referencing real OIDs cannot be given honestly.

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
enterprises

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using kbWirelessStationExclHellos OID:

Select a KarlNet wireless Ethernet bridge 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 kbWirelessStationExclHellos 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. The number of Hello packets from the KarlBridge that were received by the remote station with Excellent signal quality. 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, 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

A proprietary bridge management MIB, likely an extension or vendor-specific variant of the standard IEEE 802.1D bridge MIB (RFC 1493/RFC 4188), providing additional SNMP monitoring for bridge switching functions.

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