All MIBs › WLSX-MESH-MIB
Organization: Aruba Wireless Networks
Last Updated: 2007-08-06
Category: Aruba Wireless Networking
Description: Manages Aruba wireless mesh network portal and point configurations, link metrics, and topology status.
Start monitoring vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, any SNMPv3-capable network device (SNMP engine identity/boot/clock status) with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor. Import MIBs, browse SNMP OIDs, create custom SNMP monitors, configure alerts, and monitor any SNMP-enabled network device from a single console.
What Is WLSX-MESH-MIB?
WLSX-MESH-MIB is an Aruba Networks (WLSX enterprise tree) proprietary MIB used to manage and monitor wireless mesh networking on Aruba wireless LAN controllers. It provides information about mesh portals (the wired uplink access points) and mesh points (wireless relay nodes), including topology relationships and link quality metrics between mesh nodes. This makes it a status/performance-oriented MIB for wireless infrastructure: it is used to check whether mesh links are up, assess link metrics indicating signal quality or throughput, and confirm the overall mesh topology is forming correctly, which is effectively monitoring the operational health of the wireless mesh fabric. It operates within the broader Aruba controller MIB ecosystem and likely correlates with standard IEEE 802.11 MIB objects for radio-level detail, though no explicit dependency objects were listed. It is typically deployed in outdoor or hard-to-wire enterprise/campus wireless deployments where access points relay traffic wirelessly back to a wired mesh portal instead of individual Ethernet uplinks, and WLSX-MESH-MIB SNMP monitoring is how operators keep tabs on mesh topology and link quality there.
IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in WLSX-MESH-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
- Aruba wireless LAN controller
- Aruba mesh access point
Monitoring Examples
No sample objects were captured for this module, but based on its stated purpose an administrator would query mesh portal and mesh point status/topology objects to confirm a given access point is correctly attached to the mesh as a point rather than isolated, and would check link metric values between mesh nodes to detect a degraded wireless backhaul link before it causes client connectivity issues.
What Can Be Monitored
- mesh portal status
- mesh point status
- mesh link metrics
- mesh topology relationships
Imported Objects
From ARUBA-MIB
| wlsxEnterpriseMibModules | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From ARUBA-TC
| ArubaEncryptionMethods | |
| ArubaMeshRole | |
| ArubaPhyType |
From SNMPv2-CONF
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Counter32 | |
| Integer32 | |
| IpAddress | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE | |
| Unsigned32 | |
| snmpModules |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DateAndTime | |
| DisplayString | |
| MacAddress | |
| PhysAddress | |
| RowStatus | |
| StorageType | |
| TAddress | |
| TDomain | |
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION | |
| TestAndIncr | |
| TimeInterval | |
| TruthValue |
From WLSX-WLAN-MIB
| wlanAPMacAddress | OBJECT-TYPE |
OIDs
RFC description
Provides information about mesh portal topology and node status in Aruba wireless controllers.
Start monitoring Aruba wireless LAN controller, Aruba mesh access point (mesh-portal/topology link-quality status) with a free 30-day trial of IPNetwork Monitor. Import MIBs, browse SNMP OIDs, create custom SNMP monitors, configure alerts, and monitor any SNMP-enabled network device from a single console.