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Category: Wireless/WiFi
Description: Manages NMS Communications wireless LAN access point configuration, SSID settings, and client associations.
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What Is NMS-WLAN-MIB?
NMS-WLAN-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB from NMS Communications for managing wireless LAN access point functionality, modeled around IEEE 802.11 ("dot11") information elements. It exposes configuration data for SSIDs and access-point settings along with status information about currently associated wireless clients. It is used in monitoring to track the operational state of the wireless service — which clients are associated and what configuration is active — providing visibility into wireless service availability and client connectivity rather than deep hardware diagnostics. Its structure parallels the IEEE 802.11 MIB conventions, indicating a conceptual dependency on that standard's data model even though implemented as a proprietary table. It is typically deployed on NMS Communications access points or gateways offering integrated Wi-Fi service monitored alongside wired network management, and administrators can download the NMS-WLAN-MIB file to load it into their MIB browser for wireless client monitoring.
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Supported Devices
- NMS Communications wireless access point/gateway
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would poll the NMS dot11 table to retrieve current SSID configuration and the list of associated wireless clients, checking client counts and association status to confirm the AP is serving expected traffic. A drop in the number of associated clients or a missing/incorrect SSID entry would indicate a wireless service outage or misconfiguration. Because specific object names were not available in the source data, this description is based on the module's stated purpose of maintaining an NMS dot11 table.
What Can Be Monitored
- SSID configuration
- associated wireless client list
- client association status
Imported Objects
From NMS-SMI
| nmsMgmt | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From RFC1213-MIB
| ifIndex |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
OIDs
RFC description
Wireless LAN management including 802.11 configuration, SSID settings, and radio properties.
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