Monitoring Wireless Networks in Wireless Service Providers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17234647 en Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:42:45 EDT Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:42:45 EDT Re: Monitoring Wireless Networks http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17271702 gunther_01 :
said by joemaloy See Profile :

I need something really bad, I have units that I know are suppose to be on network that I cant see and other that I can see that aint suppose to be there. My packet sniffer picks up one of them, then I have Look@lan that sees the one thats not.
If your bridged you can see all kinds of stuff that you won't think is yours, and may not be... Doesn't your AP have an association table to show what customers you have associated. I guess that statement reads strange to me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17271702 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:30:01 EDT Re: Monitoring Wireless Networks http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17270289 joemaloy : I need something really bad, I have units that I know are suppose to be on network that I cant see and other that I can see that aint suppose to be there. My packet sniffer picks up one of them, then I have Look@lan that sees the one thats not.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17270289 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:34:54 EDT Re: Monitoring Wireless Networks http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17268800 lutful : This thread also mentions Nagios. :)
»What do you use to monitor network?

BTW many low-cost radios do not provide a fully tested MIB file and you may have to manually edit it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17268800 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:34:52 EDT Re: Monitoring Wireless Networks http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17266702 korym : Speaking of monitoring networks, this one looks pretty cool:

»nrg.hep.wisc.edu/

" - Apache web server throughput
- Apache web server query rates
- BIND dns server query rates
- BIND dns server error rates
- Cisco ATM PVC utilization
- Cisco CPU busy
- Cisco memory utilization
- DNS query response times
- FTP response times
- IMAP response times
- HP ProCurve CPU busy
- HP ProCurve memory utilization
- HTTP response times
- Network interface utilization via SNMP
- Network interface errors via SNMP
- Ping data (latency and reachability)
- POP3 response times
- Sendmail message rates
- Sendmail message throughput
- SMTP response times
- SSH response times
- Unix file system utilization via Net-SNMP's snmpd
- Unix load average via Net-SNMP's snmpd
- Unix memory utilization via Net-SNMP's snmpd
- Unix virtual memory utilization via Net-SNMP's snmpd"
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-- What is Cacti? --
Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles the data gathering. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.
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»cacti.net/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17239052 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:37:37 EDT Re: Monitoring Wireless Networks http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17235943 gunther_01 : I use PRTG but it doesn't do packet loss directly. You could try solarwinds, or even smoke ping. PRTG uses mainly SNMP, other products can utilize ICMP and SNMP to provide packet loss stats.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17235943 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:34:10 EDT Re: Monitoring Wireless Networks http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17235924 viperm : Depends on the product you have I know Tranog has proprietary MIBs and just simple SNMP will not work. You may have to use several tools. Whats up gold, Paessler, MRTG etc etc.

Some manufacturers have thier own software that montitors the network others use home made stuff, I know we use the this software to monitor our alvario radios for all of the above..

»www.wirelessconnections.net
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It's a freeware for Windows.

If the devices are capable of SNMP you can sniff a great deal of information.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17235260 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:38:58 EDT Monitoring Wireless Networks http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17234647 robertj : I work for an Internet Service Provide that offers a fixed point wireless internet service. I am trying to find a software product that will help us to monitor the health of our wireless network. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is an effective tool for monitoring wireless signal strengths, packet loss, throughput speed, etc. Any and all suggestions welcome.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17234647 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:03:36 EDT