All MIBs › WS-INFRA-FILE-MGMT-MIB
Organization: Symbol Technologies
Last Updated: 2006-10-06
Category: Symbol Technologies Wireless
Description: Manages Symbol Technologies wireless infrastructure file transfer, configuration backup, and storage operations.
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What Is WS-INFRA-FILE-MGMT-MIB?
WS-INFRA-FILE-MGMT-MIB is a Symbol Technologies enterprise MIB for managing file transfer operations on a wireless switch/controller infrastructure, covering firmware upgrades, configuration backup, and restore operations. It exposes objects related to file transfer sessions, such as the operation type (upload/download), transfer status, and target file, rather than sensor-style hardware telemetry. It supports monitoring the software status of the device by revealing whether a firmware upgrade or configuration backup/restore job is in progress, has completed, or has failed, which is critical operational state during maintenance windows. As part of Symbol's broader WS-* wireless-switch MIB family it is meant to be used alongside sibling infrastructure MIBs rather than independently. It is deployed in enterprise wireless LAN environments where administrators push firmware updates or back up configuration to/from a Symbol wireless switch and need to confirm the transfer succeeded before rebooting the unit. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the WS-INFRA-FILE-MGMT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in WS-INFRA-FILE-MGMT-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
- Symbol Technologies/Motorola/Zebra wireless switch controller and infrastructure
Monitoring Examples
No concrete object names were supplied for this MIB (its module description was only a placeholder), so a specific object-level scenario cannot be honestly given beyond its stated file-transfer/firmware-management purpose. In general use, an admin initiating a firmware upgrade would expect to poll a transfer-status object until it reports success or failure, avoiding a reboot into a partially transferred image.
What Can Be Monitored
- firmware transfer status
- configuration backup/restore status
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-CONF
| MODULE-COMPLIANCE | |
| OBJECT-GROUP |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Counter32 | |
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DateAndTime | |
| DisplayString | |
| TruthValue |
From WS-SMI
| wsInfra | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From WS-TYPE-MIB
| DoActionNow |
How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor
Example using wsInfraImgUpdCounter OID:
OIDs
RFC description
A Ciena WhiteScape (Converged Campus) infrastructure file management MIB. Provides SNMP support for file system management and infrastructure file operations on Ciena WS platforms.
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