APC AP8959NA3 User's Manual
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1. ab N 4 mM O p 4 z ts e u hed C eb eb e o 990 6052J 11 20062. e Visit the APC Web site to access documents in the APC Knowledge Base and to submit customer support requests www apc com Corporate Headquarters Connect to localized APC Web sites for specific countries each of which provides customer support information WWW apc com support Global support searching APC Knowledge Base and using e support e Contact an APC Customer Support center by telephone or e mail Regional centers Direct InfraStruXure 1 877 537 0607 Customer Support toll free Line APC headquarters U S Canada 800 800 4272 toll free 1 t Latin America 1 401 789 5735 USA Europe Middle 353 91 702000 East Africa Ireland 0 35434 2021 6 1 2 9955 9366 Australia Japan Australia New Zealand South Pacific area Local country specific centers go to www apc com support contact for contact information Contact the APC representative or other distributor from whom you purchased your APC product for information on how to obtain local customer support Copyright Entire contents copyright 2006 American Power Conversion Corporation All rights reserved Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited APC the APC logo MasterSwitch and PowerNet are trademarks of American Power Conversion Corporation All other trademarks product names and corporate names are the property of their respective owners and are used for informational purposes only
3. Contents About This Guide 1 Pu urp se of th G ide s a eid sosi ma dniki daia sede dad eee ee E i dka 1 Related Documents and FileS a an nnana ann annann 1 PowerNet MIB Structure 2 Manage Agents and Management Cards 5 Locate the OID Sviit ehini aa aE a Ean rabion 5 Monitor a PowerNet Agent 2 00 cece eee eee eee eee 5 Manage an SNMP Agent of a Hardware Device 2500005 6 PowerNet MIB Traps 10 OVGIVIGW 4 23 26 cca teecereoans 2 25 Ses Mate eee oS Bee es Bo aad eae 10 Index 12 eb a 4 mM O p 14 t O u i eb eb e o About This Guide Purpose of the Guide Use this guide to assist you in managing APC products that can be monitored and configured with the Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP Related Documents and Files This guide describes how to use the PowerNet MIB only See the User s Guide and any other documentation shipped with your APC product for information about other interfaces you can use to manage that product See the documentation provided with your Network Management System NMS for information about your NMS For information on product specific OIDs use a standard MIB browser to view their descriptions in the MIB For information on traps open the mib file itself and go to the consecutively numbered traps at the end of the file For assistance with this or any other APC product contact APC Worldwide Custo
4. MS will receive You must use powernet 1 Wu Wu O Z Wu oc TT TE 1 oc r 99 aa am O p a9 Biss e u e ab ab e iy 99 A Agents managing 5 of hardware devices 6 rebooting 7 viewing information about 6 BOOTP value showing whether BOOTP is enabled 6 D Date setting fora card or device 6 F Files transferring 8 L Locating the OIDs agents 5 Management Cards 5 Managing agents 5 agents of a hardware device 6 Management Cards 5 MIB structure 2 Monitoring a PowerNet agent 5 O OIDs categories above PowerNet MIB 3 categories within PowerNet MIB 3 major categories apcmgmt 3 hardware 4 products 4 software 4 system 4 products thatuse OIDs 2 tabled 4 P PowerNet agent monitoring 5 PowerNet MIB location in OID hierarchy 3 R Rebooting an agent 7 S SNMPv1 and SNMPv3 access control for NMSs 2 defining trap receivers 11 Software modules of an agent 6 F Tabled OIDs 4 Time setting for a card or device 6 Transferring files 8 Trap receivers defining 11 setting 6 eb a an O 4 z Boss O a eb z eb e 4 4 Traps defining trap receivers 11 enabling argument types for 8 V Version of an agent 6 APC Worldwide Customer Support Customer support for this or any other APC product is available at no charge in any of the following ways
5. NMPv1 and SNMPv3 e Associate an NMS IP address to an SNMP community name SNMPv1 or to a user profile SNMPv3 to limit access to only the defined NMS e Configure the access for an NMS to an SNMP community as write access read access or no access SNMPv1 For more information on SNMP access controls see the User s Guide for your Management Card or network enabled device Structure of the OID hierarchy in the SNMP browser The PowerNet MIB fits into a hierarchical structure within your SNMP browser s categories For example for an HP OpenView for Windows SNMP browser the OID categories from the top of the structure down to the top category of PowerNet MIB OIDs are as follows e iso for International Standards Organization e org for organization e dod for Department of Defense e internet e private e enterprises e apc for American Power Conversion Structure of the OID hierarchy in the PowerNet MIB In the hierarchical structure of the PowerNet MIB the apc category of OIDs is at the top and individual OIDs are in specific OID categories or within specific O D tables See Tabled OIDs There are two categories under apc e products for OIDs to manage specific products e apcmgmt for OIDs that affect the operation of hardware based SNMP agents for example Management Cards and MasterSwitch units See Manage Agents and Management Cards There are three categories unde
6. efine trap receivers as follows e Each Management Card or other APC hardware device can send traps to up to six trap receivers but you can define only four through the APC PowerNet MIB You can define the other two through the user interface of the Management Card or device e Each PowerNet agent can send traps to up to four trap receivers e You can define only SNMPv1 trap receivers through the APC PowerNet MIB To define SNMPv3 trap receivers use the interface of the Management Card or device that will send the traps if it supports SNMPv3 In a MIB browser select in order these OID categories to access the PowerNet MIB OIDs that you use to define a trap receiver apc e apcmgmt mconfig OID Task mconfigNumTrapReceivers The number of NMSs to receive traps always 4 mconfigTrapReceiverTable A tabled set of OIDs to define parameters for each trap mconfigTrapReceiverEntry receiver trapIndex e The trap receiver s number i e the read only index to the trap receiver entry receiverAddr The NMS s IP address The default value 0 0 0 0 prevents all NMSs from receiving traps communityString e The password community name that a trap must use to be sent to this trap receiver severity e This OID is obsolete and always returns zero accept ThisReceiver e Enables or disables sending traps to this NMS e yes 1 Enable e no 2 Disable receiveTrapType e The type of traps that this N
7. erform the tasks described in Manage an SNMP Agent of a Hardware Device use your MIB browser to select in order the following OID categories apc apcmgmt e Any of the following mcontrol mconfig mtrapargs mfiletransfer Monitor a PowerNet Agent Use the powerNetSubAgent OIDs to view information about a PowerNet agent These OIDs are in two sub categories powerNetSoftwareSystem and powerNetSoftwareConfig ab i 4 mM p a9 e c nest cb eb e a9 4 Wu Wu Q Z 1 an TT TE L am Arc View information about an agent Use the powerNetSoftwareSystem OIDs to view information about the agent including its version number the technology that it uses to implement the PowerNet MIB and the length of time it has been running continuously on the network powerNetSoftwareSystemDescription powerNetSoftwareOid powerNet SoftwareSystemUpTime View information about an agent s software modules Use the powerNetSoftwareConfig tabled OIDs to view the version number name and installation date in the format mm dd yy of any of the agent s software modules powerNetSoftwareTableSize powerNetSoftwareTable powerNetSoftwareEntry moduleNumber moduleName moduleVersion moduleDate Manage an SNMP Agent of a Hardware Device Use the apcmgmt OIDs to manage the SNMP agent of an APC hardware device such as the Network Ma
8. ide the following parameters needed to transfer the file e The file name and path e The IP address for the remote TFTP server if you are using TFTP for the transfer e The IP address user name and password for the remote FTP server if you are using FTP for the file transfer The mfiletransferConfigSettings subcategory has one OID mfiletransferConfigSettingsFileName The mfiletransferConfigTFTP subcategory has one OID mfiletransferConfigTFTPServerAddress Arc The mfiletransferConfigFTP subcategory has these OIDs mfiletransferConfigkTPServerAddress mfiletransferConfigkTPServerUser mfiletransferConfigkTPServerPassword Perform the file transfer Use the OID in the mfiletransferControl category to download the file from the TFTP server or from the FTP server mfiletransferControlInitiateFileTransfer eb a 4 an O p 4 z Bs O ahead eb eb e 4 am o PowerNet MIB Traps Overview This section describes how to define which NMSs can receive PowerNet MIB traps See How To Define Trap Receivers No device can generate all traps and no NMS can receive a trap until at least one of the four trap receiver definitions exists for the device By default all APC devices Management Cards and agents have no trap receivers defined ab a 4 mM C O p 4 z t O c chest z eb 4 am 4 How To Define Trap Receivers You can d
9. mer Support e 4 aa am O c nest G eb z eb O am 4 Wu Wu Q Z 1 oc TT TE L oc Wu Wu O Z 1 oc TT TE TT cc ab a 4 aa am O c nest G eb eb O am 4 PowerNet MIB Structure Traps Management Cards APC devices and APC agents can send traps to a Network Management System NMS when specific events occur The trap receiver definitions that a particular Management Card device or agent uses determine which NMSs can receive traps The MIB provides the meaning of each trap See PowerNet MIB Traps OIDs APC products than can use OIDs PowerNet MIB OIDs allow an NMS to use its SNMP browser to manage the following Any APC product that relies on an external pre installed or embedded built in Management Card for its network interface and that has its SNMP access controls set to allow an NMS to have SNMP access e A PowerNet Agent and the devices it controls A PowerNet Agent has limited control over a UPS and does not use SNMP access controls SNMP access controls You can use the Web interface or control console of a Management Card or a device with an embedded Management Card to define these SNMP access controls for up to four SNMP communities SGNMPv1 four user profiles SNMPv3 or both e Disable SNMP access to prevent access by any NMS S
10. nagement Card installed pre installed or embedded of a UPS or other APC device The apcmgmt OIDs are in four subcategories mconfig mcontrol mtrapargs and mfiletransfer View BOOTP value set trap receivers date and time Use the mconfig OIDs to perform the following tasks e Identify whether BOOTP is enabled so that BOOTP provides the device s IP configuration or disabled so that the device uses its stored IP configuration e Configure up to four NMSs as trap receivers as described in How To Define Trap Receivers e Configure the date and time on a Management Card or other device mconfigBOOTPEnabled mconfigNumTrapReceivers mconfigTrapReceiverTable mconfigTrapReceiverEntry trapl Index receiverAddr communityString severity obsolete always returns 0 acceptThisReceiver receiveTrapType obsolete always returns 1 mconfigCl mconfigCl ock ock Date mconfigClockTime Control the agent s rebooting behavior Use the one mcontrol OID to control when a Network Management Card or network enabled device reboots and whether basic network settings or agent code are changed No reboot occurs if a user is logged on to the Management Card or device mcontrolRestartAgent Use the available values described in the MIB file to do any of the following e Reboot the Management Card or device now e Download new agent code if available and reboot the Management Card or de
11. r products e hardware contains sub categories for each type of hardware product that you can manage using PowerNet MIB OIDs e software contains one sub category powerNetSubAgent of read only OIDs to monitor a software PowerNet agent only See Manage Agents and Management Cards e system contains read only OIDs that identify models of APC UPSs and other APC devices by unique numbers that other OIDs can reference For example the system OIDs in other OID categories of the PowerNet MIB use a PowerNet MIB system OID number for the MIB II s sysObjectID value Tabled OIDs For any PowerNet MIB OID category listed in the SNMP browser you can access a list of the current values for all OIDs in that category and in all sub categories below it in the hierarchy except OIDs grouped in a table To access the current values of OIDs in an OID table select the OID table always enclosed in braces in the SNMP browser For example to access the OIDs that define all four trap receivers that you can configure through SNMP for a device select mconfigTrapReceiverTable in the SNMP browser Manage Agents and Management Cards Locate the OIDs To find the OIDs to perform the tasks described in Monitor a PowerNet Agent use your MIB browser to select in order the following OID categories apc products software powerNetSubAgent powerNetSoftwareSystem or powerNetSoftwareConfig To find the OIDs to p
12. vice e Reset basic TCP IP settings of the Management Card or device to their defaults optionally including the resetting of its boot mode to DHCP and BOOTP and perform a reboot Value 3 now applies to the Network Management Card and to other APC network enabled devices The three PowerNet adapters mentioned in the Note description in the MIB file for value 3 are not longer sold by APC Value 4 is now obsolete Enable APC traps to use a specific argument type Use the mtrapargs OIDs to enable APC traps to use an argument of a specific type integer IP address octet string Gauge or TimeTicks which may not be defined as part of the APC MIB mtrapsapargsiInteger mtrapsapargsIpAddress mtrapsapargsString mtrapsapargsGauge mtrapsapargsTimeTicks Enable transfer of any file that is supported by the Management Card Use the mfiletransfer OIDs to allow the transfer of any type of file that the Management Card can recognize The mfiletransfer OIDs are in three sub categories mfiletransferStatus mfiletransferConfig and mfiletransferControl View the results of the most recent file transfer attempt Use the one OID in the mfiletransferStatus category to find out whether the most recent attempt to transfer a file succeeded or failed and if it failed the reason for the failure Provide the required parameters to transfer the file Use the OIDs in the three subcategories under the mfiletransferConfig to prov
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