The AvantCom Private 802.11 MIB for NetSNMP 5.0.8 found here uses Wireless
Extension information driver specific /proc files to populate the AvantCom
private 802.11 MIB. See
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html for more
details about Wireless Extensions.
Drivers vary in what funtions and data they do and do not support in terms of
Wireless Extensions and driver /proc files, so the 802.11 MIB is populated
based on what the particular driver makes available.
See http://hostap.epitest.fi/ for
information on the HostAP driver for the Prism 2/2.5/3 chipsets and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ for more information on the
MadWiFi driver for the Atheros chipsets.
This release assumes you already have a working build for NetSNMP in place.
See http://www.net-snmp.org/ for details
about installing NetSNMP on a Linux or other Unix oriented OS. To add AvantCom
private 802.11 MIB support, unzip the files in this release to the following
directory:
.../net-snmp-5.0.8/agent/mibgroup
Reconfigure NetSNMP by adding the following parameter to the configuration
step (from the .../net-snmp-5.0.8 directory):
--with-mib-modules="avc802dot11"
Your configuration command may look a bit different than mine which is:
./configure --with-cflags="-g -O0 -Dlinux"
--with-mib-modules="avc802dot11"
Now rebuild NetSNMP using the make clean, make, make install commands.
That's it, assuming you already had a NetSNMP build that was responding to
SNMP requests.
Keep in mind this is a beta release and only GETs are supported at the moment.
Please send feedback about problems and/or enhancements to
lsimmons@avantcom.com.
Always use the MIB file that comes with the release. This is an experimental
MIB and objects will move about from time to time. If there is a question about
compatiblily, compare the DEFVAL section of the avSystem.sysMIBVersion and the
value returned in the avSystem.sysExpectedMIBVersion to be certain they match.
avc802do11-0.0.2 - 09/25/2003
Initial BETA release:
Atheros Chipset - MAC and PHY statistics
Prism Chipset - Associated clients table with statistics
avc802do11-0.0.3 - 11/04/2004
1. Added Prism signal, noise, quality and associated client count.
2. Fixed overflow counter problem for Tx and Rx bytes for clients.
See also - 802.11 MIB Support for NetSNMP
See also - AvantCom Wireless Monitor
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