Access5800 Firmware Version 1.6 Release Notes 2/28/03

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Access5800™ Firmware Version 1.6

Release Notes

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1. Purpose

This document contains information on new features, benefits, and installation details about software release v1.6 of the Access5800 firmware. These notes reference new changes and enhancements released in v1.6 as well as those introduced in interim release v1.51. Information in this document overrides information presented in release notes prior to v1.51.

2. Upgrade Procedure

See the attached document “V1.6 Upgrade Procedure.doc” for detailed instructions for upgrading your radios to v1.6. Please be sure to follow the instructions in this document precisely in order to prevent a failed upgrade.

3. Summary of v1.6 Enhancements and New Features

SNMP Support – this release provides an embedded SNMP agent in the Access

Point for monitoring and control.

Robust Telnet sessions – this release greatly enhances the reliability of Telnet

sessions.

Password on HTTP sessions – this release enhances the HTTP security by

adding password protection on the HTTP access. This feature was released in v1.51.

Settable HTTP port – this release enhances the HTTP security by allowing user

to change the HTTP access port. This feature was released in v1.51.

Broadcast switch settings to SU – this release provides capability to broadcast

switch settings to the entire sector served by the AP. This feature was released in v1.51.

4. New commands

a. set httpport – change HTTP port. (avail in 1.51)

b. su sw all – broadcast switch setting to all SU’s in a sector (avail in 1.51) c. su testrflink aptx – set the size of link test packet (avail in 1.51)

d. echo – enable/disable echo from the device during Telnet or Hyperterminal session (avail in 1.51)

e. su ip – change SU’s IP address (avail in 1.51)

f. su password all – broadcast password to all SU’s in a sector (avail in 1.51)

g. set subnet – set subnet mask on the device for SNMP trap configuration. NOTE: This subnetmask is not used for routing, but for SNMP

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h. set gateway – set default gateway on the device for SNMP trap

configuration. NOTE: This subnet is not used for routing, but for SNMP management only.

5. SNMP Overview

Firmware v1.6 provides support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). For more information on SNMP and its uses, you can visit

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/snmp-faq/.

This release supports MIB-II (system only) and the Trango proprietary MIB. The SNMP agent resides on the AP ONLY. It gathers health and status, performance statistics from all SUs locally, then responds back to the SNMP manager upon request.

Users interested in using the SNMP functionality should review the entire Trango MIB for a complete understanding of its features.

The following is an overview of a few of the SNMP objects which provide new functionality for the Access5800.

Overview of SNMP Objects for Monitoring and Control

a. SU Bandwidth monitoring – this release provides capability for network manager to monitor bandwidth usage on each SU via an SNMP Manager program.

1. suEthRxAvgThroughputLog – Average payload data throughput (in Kbits/sec) received on the Ethernet port over the period specified by suStatisticsSamplePeriod (1 ~ 60 minutes).

2. suEthTxAvgThroughputLog - Average payload data throughput (in Kbits/sec) transmitted on the Ethernet port over the period specified by suStatisticsSamplePeriod (1 ~ 60 minutes).

3. suRfRxAvgThroughputLog - Average payload data throughput (in Kbits/sec) received on the RF link over the period specified by suStatisticsSamplePeriod (1 ~ 60 minutes).

4. suRfTxAvgThroughputLog - Average payload data throughput (in Kbits/sec) transmitted on the RF link over the period specified by suStatisticsSamplePeriod (1 ~ 60 minutes). 5. suRfInOctets – Number of octets of payload transmitted from

AP’s RF port.

6. suRfOutOctets – Number of octets of payload received from AP’s RF port.

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1. apsysEthRxAvgThroughputLog – Average payload data

throughput (in Kbits/sec) received on the Ethernet port over the period of 1 minute.

2. apsysEthTxAvgThroughputLog - Average payload data throughput (in Kbits/sec) transmitted on the Ethernet port over the period of 1 minute.

3. apsysRfRxAvgThroughputLog - Average payload data throughput (in Kbits/sec) received on the RF link over the period of 1 minute.

4. apsysRfTxAvgThroughputLog - Average payload data

throughput (in Kbits/sec) transmitted on the RF link over the period of 1 minute.

5. apsysEthInOctets – Number of octets of payload received on Ethernet port

6. apsysEthOutOctets – Number of octets of payload transmitted on Ethernet port

7. apsysRfInOctets – Number of octets of payload received on RF port

8. apsysRfOutOctets – Number of octets of payload transmitted on RF port

c. Link status monitoring – this release provides capability for network manager to monitor status of link via SNMP. There are 5 traps

defined as follows:

1. Cold start – when SNMP agent starts running 2. Link up – when AP enters opmode “AP” 3. Link down – when AP reboots

4. su link up – when SU associates with the AP

5. su link down – when SU dis-associates with the AP

6. Failure to go to ap mode – when AP fails to enter opmode “AP” d. AP and SU Control - SNMP also provides control capabilities which

were only available via Command Line Interface (CLI) and the HTTP interface in the past. The majority of the features available on the CLI are now also available via SNMP. To name a few of these

features:

1. Add/delete subscriber 2. Change channel

3. Set power

4. Set radio sensitivity

Review the Trango MIB (trango.mib) for the complete listing of MIB Objects.

6. SNMP Setup

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Access5800™ AP via SNMP. The procedure will be varied for different SNMP-based packages.

1) Unzip trangopkg.zip file to a local temporary directory.

2) Go to your local temporary directory, you will see 4 files shown below.

trango.mib - M5800S AP MIB file trango.ico - M5800S AP icon

autoico.txt - Select Trango icon automatically during initial

set-up

3) SNMPc software will be located at C:\Program Files\SNMPc Network Manager as default during install.

4) Copy trango.mib file to C:\Program Files\SNMPc Network Manager\mibfiles

5) Copy autoico.txt file to C:\Program Files\SNMPc Network Manager\mibfiles

6) Copy trango.ico file to C:\Program Files\SNMPc Network Manager\bitmaps

Note: By default, the Read Community is set to “public”, Write

Community is “private” in the AP and Trap Community is “SNMP_trap”.

The manager needs to have the same settings in order to communicate with the AP successfully.

AP setup

You need to do the following setup on the AP to send traps: 1) trap destination IP (Trango MIB object trapconfig–

trapconfigInfo)

2) trap community string (Trango MIB object trapconfig–

aptrpTable-AptrpEntry)

3) enable each trap (Trango MIB object

traponfig–aptrpTable-AptrpEntry)

Note: For all the set operations on the Trango MIB, you need to set object

UpdateFlashAndActivate at Trango MIB apsystem-apsystemInfo to

Access5800 Firmware Version 1.6 Release Notes 2/28/03