All MIBs › ZYXEL-RADIUS-MIB
Organization: Enterprise Solution ZyXEL
Last Updated: 2012-07-01
Category: ZyXEL Security and Access Control
Description: Manages ZyXEL RADIUS client configuration including server addresses, keys, timeouts, and authentication settings.
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What Is ZYXEL-RADIUS-MIB?
This is a ZyXEL vendor-specific MIB for configuring RADIUS client settings used in authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) for network access control, such as 802.1X port authentication or administrative login. It exposes configuration objects for RADIUS server addresses, shared secret keys, timeout and retry parameters, and related authentication settings. Its monitoring value is primarily configuration verification and troubleshooting authentication failures: administrators confirm the correct RADIUS server IP and timeout values are configured, which helps diagnose why devices or users are failing to authenticate onto the network (e.g., a misconfigured server address or an overly short timeout causing false rejections). It typically works alongside 802.1X/port-security MIBs since RADIUS is the backend authentication service for those access-control mechanisms. It is typically deployed by network administrators managing centralized authentication for switches or wireless access in ZyXEL-based enterprise/SMB networks. Engineers can download the ZYXEL-RADIUS-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- ZyXEL switch
Monitoring Examples
An administrator checks the configured RADIUS server address and timeout objects on a ZyXEL switch after users report intermittent 802.1X authentication failures, to confirm the switch is pointing at the correct, reachable RADIUS server. If the configured timeout is too short relative to the RADIUS server's actual response time, authentication requests may be dropped as timeouts even though the server would have eventually responded. No sample objects were present in the source extract, so exact object names cannot be confirmed here.
What Can Be Monitored
- RADIUS server address
- shared secret configuration
- authentication timeout/retry settings
- RADIUS client enable state
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| IpAddress | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| NOTIFICATION-TYPE | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| DisplayString |
From ZYXEL-ES-SMI
| esMgmt | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Configures RADIUS server settings for authentication including server selection mode and timeout parameters.
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