Information about the 802.1x status on the switch ports

[lhpaladin]

Hello Everyone,

Extreme
The scenario of a switch that responds "Yes" to the 802.1x NetXMS capability and the interfaces is activated is the option. Should the status of your ports not show anything other than "UNKNOWN" in the PAE State and Backend State columns, when a device is connected?

Huawei
Another problem with this capacity is that it seems to me that Huawei switches that also work with 802.1x enabled do not have this capacity detected in NetXMS.

I appreciate that you can inform me how to make this function work correctly in NetXMS.

[victor]

Hi!

Server reads OIDs 1.0.8802.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 and 1.0.8802.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.2 to determine PAE state of an interface. Could you please check what is returned there by those switches?
For capability detection server reads OID 1.0.8802.1.1.1.1.1.1.0 and expects value 1. Please check what is returned by Huawei switch for this OID.

Another possible issue could be physical port detection - server only runs PAE status poll on interfaces marked as physical ports. Please check if interfaces are marked correctly as physical ports on Extreme switch.

Best regards,
Victor

[lhpaladin]

Hi, Victor.

First of all, thanks for the information, it's been a great help.

In a test, extreme returns values 1 and 7 separately for the respective OIDs, on all interfaces. However, in the NetXMS GUI, only UNKNOWN appears.

For Huawei, the OID mentioned does not return a MIB for the corresponding value. Apparently, there is no support for the standard 1.0.8802.1.1.1.1. Maybe with some specific Huawei MIB?
Here is the link that I believe has the supported MIBs:
https://support.huawei.com/hedex/hdx.do?docid=EDOC1100333029&id=EN-US_CONCEPT_0177099878

[Filipp Sudanov]

Hi, 

For Huawei the information might be here: https://support.huawei.com/hedex/hdx.do?docid=EDOC1100333029&id=EN-US_CONCEPT_0176370110

Can you show walk output for
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.40.4.1.14.1

[lhpaladin]

Hi,

Sent an example

[Filipp Sudanov]

For Extreme:
What do you have in Driver field on the Overview tab?
Pls share information from Interfaces tab in a csv file.

For Huawei - yes, this needs processing 802.1x information from a custom mib. Currently SNMP drivers do not support 802.1x part, so this needs to be added, will take some time, but will be done at some moment. Created an issue for this: https://track.radensolutions.com/issue/NX-2821

When developing Huawei driver the best would be if you could provide us remote access to a huawei device - if this is possible  id would speed up the development

[victor]

Just closed issue 3023 (former NX-2821) - will be part of release 6.2.0.

[lhpaladin]

@victor said in Information about the 802.1x status on the switch ports:

Just closed issue 3023 (former NX-2821) - will be part of release 6.2.0.

Thank you, Victor!