APC9630 firmware v5.01 versus v5.11

[Anonymous user]

According to tech support, APC will no longer be supporting extended ASCII in the SNMP community strings - you'll only get a-z, A-Z, 0-9.

Firmware v5.01 currently supports extended ASCII (so you can use standard l33t transforms).
As of firmware v5.11, extended ASCII is no longer supported.

This is the only APC firmware that exhibits this bug.

[Anonymous user]

According to tech support, APC will no longer be supporting extended ASCII in the SNMP community strings - you'll only get a-z, A-Z, 0-9.

Firmware v5.01 currently supports extended ASCII (so you can use standard l33t transforms).
As of firmware v5.11, extended ASCII is no longer supported.

This is the only APC firmware that exhibits this bug.

[BillP]

[this should apply|http://nam-en.apc.com/cgi-bin/nam_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=8690]

certain characters are restricted for security reasons. you can list the characters here that you are looking to use and we can look into it for a future release.

[Anonymous user]

In SNMP, we also use colon (:) as a delimiter, for use with mapping software interface of Nedi. We use this for 3-4000 devices on our network - anything that supports SNMP (IOS, WinOS, Sun, Linux, etc.).

An example of a colon-delimited SNMP location would be
DC:NMAI:4thSTREET:1st:56:NCC
in Cisco config that would be "snmp-server location DC:NMAI:4thSTREET:1st:56:NCC"


DC is Washington, DC
NMAI is National Museum of the American Indian
4thSTREET is the street location/address
1st is the 1st floor
56 is the Room Number
NCC is the Room name

Nedi turns that SNMP location into a hierarchical (clickable on the web interface) map of our network and escalates alarms up to the top layer so you can click your way through the map to find something. Very useful.

By default, Nedi uses colons as the SNMP location delimiter, but allows us to specify any other character as a delimiters. It is possible to go change the SNMP location strings on the 3-4,000 devices in our network, but it would be extremely bothersome.

[BillP]

Security reasons: APC is very conservative in allowing character input to combat cross site scripting.

after all of this feedback, we will address this character usage and limitation in a future firmware release.

[voidstar_apc]

Nice work i picKed a winna,

teshb, you might want to look at aos/sumx503. It has all the UPS capabilities that sumx511 has, but without the AOS511 features.

[BillP · Accepted solution]

if you do decide to downgrade, please be aware of [this knowledgebase article|http://nam-en.apc.com/cgi-bin/nam_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=10922]