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PowerNet MIB Reference Guide
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About This Guide
This introduction provides the following information to help you use this guide.
• Guide Purpose
• Guide Structure
• Related Documents
• Terms Used in This Guide
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described at the end of this manual.
Guide Purpose
This guide describes how to use the PowerNet management information base (MIB), version 3.4.4, to
manage APC products that allow or enable using simple network management protocol (SNMP) for
management:
• MIB version 3.4.4 management of a Management Card, UPS, and an Environmental Monitor
• MIB version 2.2-compatible management of a version 2.2 Agent, its UPS, and an
Environmental Monitor
• MIB version 3.4.4 management of an APC MasterSwitch™ AC Power Controller, a
MasterSwitch VM AC remote control PDU, or a MasterSwitch Plus AC remote control PDU
• MIB version 3.4.4 management of an APC Automatic Transfer Switch and its embedded
Network Management Card.
Guide Structure
This guide’s chapters describe how to use the PowerNet MIB:
• Chapter 1, PowerNet MIB Structure
Provides an overview of the PowerNet MIB, its Object Identifications (OIDs) and its traps
(messages that alert a network management station [NMS] about specific conditions).
• Chapter 2 through Chapter 8
Describe how to use PowerNet MIB OIDs to manage specific products:
- Chapter 2, How to Manage Agents and Management Cards
- Chapter 3, How to Manage a UPS
- Chapter 4, How to Manage an Environmental Monitor
- Chapter 5, How to Manage a MasterSwitch Unit
- Chapter 6, How to Manage a MasterSwitch VM Unit
- Chapter 7, How to Manage a MasterSwitch Plus Unit