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PowerNet MIB Reference Guide

Chapter 2: How to

Manage Agents and

Management Cards

This chapter describes how to use PowerNet MIB OIDs to manage a Management Card, or to view

software data for a PowerNet Agent. It also includes information on managing the SNMP agent of a

MasterSwitch unit or Automatic Transfer Switch.

In the following cases, the network connection allows an NMS to use an SNMP browser and PowerNet

MIB OIDs to manage the UPS, Environmental Monitor, MasterSwitch unit, or Automatic Transfer

Switch.

• A Web/SNMP Management Card or Network Management Card enables Web-based or SNMP-

based monitoring of a UPS, Environmental Monitor, MasterSwitch unit, or Automatic Transfer

Switch (which has an embedded Network Management Card).

• A PowerNet Management Card allows SNMP-based monitoring of a UPS and Environmental

Monitor.

• A PowerNet Agent indirectly connects a UPS and an Environmental Monitor to the network by

communicating with a PowerChute plus application, which, in turn, communicates with the

UPS and Environmental Monitor.

In addition to using SNMP to manage a device connected to the network by a Management Card or

PowerNet Agent, the NMS can also use PowerNet MIB OIDs to manage any Management Card,

Environmental Monitor, MasterSwitch unit, or Automatic Transfer Switch, or to monitor software

values for the PowerNet Agent.

How to Monitor a PowerNet Agent

You can use [powerNetSubAgent] read-only OIDs to view information about a PowerNet Agent by

performing the following steps:

1. Select [products] under [apc].

2. Select [software].

3. Select [powerNetSubAgent].

The SNMP browser lists two OID categories: [powerNetSoftwareSystem] and

[powerNetSoftwareConfig].

OIDs Tasks

[powerNetSubAgent] read-only

OIDs

View information about a PowerNet Agent. (See How to

Monitor a PowerNet Agent.)

[apcmgmt] OIDs Manage the internal SNMP Agent at a hardware device. (See

How to Manage the SNMP Agent at a Hardware Device.)