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Symbol Access Point Compatibility

We have some Symbol AP-5131 and we tried to evaluate Wireless Network Monitor but we can see only simple infos, not connected devices, not signal strength or quality. What is wrong about this? These APs are not supported by Solarwinds?

I download a mib file for these APs. Is there anything, that i can do with this?

Thanks in advance

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mcbridea

Hello gdim,

I am the new Product Manager for Wireless Network Manager (WNM). We do support the 802.11 MIB but that doesn't mean it will work with every wireless vendor's implementation. Here is what I recommend:

Check the SNMP Access settings of the 5131 via the device management interface to make sure the Orion machine (or subnet) has access to device SNMP
Walk the 5131's 802.11 MIB from the same subnet as Orion. If you don't have a MIB walk tool you can eval SolarWinds' Engineer's Toolset.

Hope this helps - Andy

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mcbridea

Hello gdim,

I am the new Product Manager for Wireless Network Manager (WNM). We do support the 802.11 MIB but that doesn't mean it will work with every wireless vendor's implementation. Here is what I recommend:

Check the SNMP Access settings of the 5131 via the device management interface to make sure the Orion machine (or subnet) has access to device SNMP
Walk the 5131's 802.11 MIB from the same subnet as Orion. If you don't have a MIB walk tool you can eval SolarWinds' Engineer's Toolset.

Hope this helps - Andy

wburnam

I wanted to see if anyone every had any luck with Symbol 5131 Wireless Access Points. I am using Orion 9.5 SP2 and I have entered a few of our 5131 APs into Orion and also I'm only getting basic node info, but NO wireless information (it doesn't show up in wireless at all).

Thanks,
Bill (Stilgar)

bshopp

Have you tried the troubleshooting steps Andy recommends in the above post? The main thing is does this AP support the 802.11 MIB or not?

wburnam

I have tried some of the troubleshooting steps, but I'm still somewhat new to some aspects of SNMP so if someone could point me in the right direction for more info I would appreciate it:

Check the SNMP Access settings of the 5131 via the device management interface to make sure the Orion machine (or subnet) has access to device SNMP - I confirmed this and everything is fine.
Walk the 5131's 802.11 MIB from the same subnet as Orion. If you don't have a MIB walk tool you can eval SolarWinds' Engineer's Toolset. - This I'm a little fuzzy on. I have the Engineer's Toolset, but I've never had the need to really drill into SNMP (and never dealt with the MIBs, so this is going to be a learning experience for me). If someone can help point me in the right direction I would much appreciate it.

This may help to get all the SNMP info you are looking for from WNM. It may end up that the Symbol implementation does not work as expected. Symbol's proprietary MIBs are not supported at this time but Orion v9 will have a universal collector so you can collect from any MIB (I do have Orion v9.5, so I'm hoping the universal collector will help me out.. but once again I'm really new to all this) I'm trying to figure out how to tell if this AP supports 802.11 MIB.