NTWS-AP-IF-MIB

Description: Monitors AP radio interface statistics including channel utilization and error counters on Nortel NTWS WLAN systems.

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NTWS-AP-IF-MIB is a Nortel Networks proprietary MIB providing interface-level objects for wireless Access Points (APs) managed by an Access Controller (AC) in Nortel's WLAN switch architecture. It exposes an AP interface table keyed by AP serial number and interface index, reporting interface name, type, MTU, high-speed rate, and MAC address for each AP radio/interface. Its monitoring role centers on hardware/interface status of the access points: identifying which interfaces are present on a given AP by serial number, their negotiated speed, and their MAC addressing, functioning as an AP-scoped analog to the standard IF-MIB. It closely mirrors and depends conceptually on IETF IF-MIB conventions (ifName, ifType, ifMtu, ifHighSpeed patterns) applied per-AP. It is deployed in Nortel wireless switch (WLAN AC/AP) infrastructure in enterprise campus networks. Engineers can download the NTWS-AP-IF-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

An administrator would poll ntwsApIfTable entries indexed by ntwsApIfApSerialNum and ntwsApIfIndex, reading ntwsApIfHighSpeed and ntwsApIfMac to confirm a specific access point's radio interface is up and reporting its expected link speed and hardware address. A missing or stale entry for a given AP serial number would indicate that access point has dropped its association with the Access Controller.

Nortel Networks wireless access point network interface management for wireless switches and controllers.