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Integrating Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.6 with Centralized NMS Event Corre...

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Integrating Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.6

with Centralized NMSEvent Correlation

Overview

This document describes AirWave’s alert/trap workflow when integrating with a centralized NMS Event Correlation

System. This document includes the following topics:

l "Adding NMS Event Correlation Servers to AirWave" on page 1

l "Configuring Alerts/Traps in AirWave" on page 1

l "Viewing Alerts in Various Destinations" on page 2

l "Acknowledging Alerts" on page 3

l "Compiling the AirWave MIB on NMS" on page 4

l "Matching Severity in the NMS Event Correlation Servers" on page 4

l "Enhanced Integration" on page 4

l "Actual MIB " on page 4

Adding NMS Event Correlation Servers to AirWave

To add a event correlation server to the AirWave Management Platform (AMP):

1. Navigate to AMP Setup > NMS and click Add.

2. Configure server settings.

Figure 1: AMP Setup > NMS Page Illustration

Configuring Alerts/Traps in AirWave

1. Navigate to Systems > Triggers, as shown in Figure 2.

Summary of content (8 pages)

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Integrating Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.6 with Centralized NMS Event Correlation Overview This document describes AirWave’s alert/trap workflow when integrating with a centralized NMS Event Correlation System.
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. Select one of the built-in Alerts/Traps. 3. Click Add.
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Figure 4: Email recipient of an alert As seen by the NMS server via a tcpdump of the actual alert: Device User Count 10:32:52.964243 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto 17, length: 284) demo.airwave.com.38979 > airwave-openvie.snmptrap: [bad udp cksum ebf4!] { SNMPv2c C=foo { V2Trap(242) R=47680 system.sysUpTime.0=10 S:1.1.4.1.0=E:12028.4.15.0.3 E:12028.4.15.1.101=2 E:12028.4.15.1.102=4 E:12028.4.15.1.103="Device: HQ-Engineering https://demo.airwave.
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Compiling the AirWave MIB on NMS 1. Navigate to AMP Setup > NMS. 2. Click on the Download link. 3. Transfer to NMS server. 4. Compile on NMS server. Matching Severity in the NMS Event Correlation Servers Most NMS Event Correlation systems have the ability to color code and esclate based on information received in the trap, as shown in Figure 5. The OID 12028.4.15.1.102 contians the AirWave severity code.
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::= { awampEventObject 102 } awampEventDescription OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DisplayString MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Concatenated String produced from AMP." ::= { awampEventObject 103 } awampEventAPIPOld OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX IpAddress MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Old IP of the AP when AMP changes and sends trap to HPOV.
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"This trap is sent when too many devices are associated simultaneously associated with AP for a period of time. " ::= { awampEventPrefix 3 } toomuchBWAMP NOTIFICATION-TYPE OBJECTS { awampEventID, awampEventSeverityCode, awampEventDescription } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This trap is sent when there is too much BW being used on the WLAN for a period of time.
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rogueAPDetected NOTIFICATION-TYPE OBJECTS { awampEventID, awampEventSeverityCode, awampEventDescription } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This trap is sent when the AMP discovers a Rogue AP.
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