Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? in Wireless Service Providers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17704915 en Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:48:32 EDT Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:48:32 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17710195 gunther_01 :
said by jdmarti1 See Profile :

Why can't we get 28 hrs in a day?
I am sure if everybody in the US complained enough, our government could change that for you ASAP. /rant--Couldn't resist]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17710195 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:03:06 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17707464 jdmarti1 : I don't use it - I was investigating it when Big Brother went wacko on their licensing. Basically it was able to do anything that BB did, you just have to configure it. I am using Dude, but am looking at other options - I just need time to configure something. Why can't we get 28 hrs in a day?
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»magicwisp.com]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17707464 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:05:22 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17707149 superdog :
said by jdmarti1 See Profile :

Big Sister is an open source play on Big Brother.

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Jack, That looks like a really cool setup!. Although it appears to me more server oriented(Watching CPU cycles, disk sizes etc.)?, I am sure it would work well for WISP?. Do You use it? :uhh:
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»bigsister.graeff.com/
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»magicwisp.com]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17707119 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:55:46 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17707029 wifimaker : post was removed as spamming or self promotion of products is not allowed. ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17707029 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:09:46 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17706472 Airplane777 : Sounds like Big Brother has a lot of alarm monitoring capability.

Do I understand correctly, that Big Brother uses some kind of server to do this hardware monitoring you mentioned? Is it some kind of pinging program thats placed on a server?

When you say offsite, do you mean I can have the Big Brother server located at our office, using one ISP connection. While my WISP system that I want Big Brother to monitor for hardware problems, is located elsewhere, and is connected to a completely different backbone to the Internet?

For BW consumption monitoring of your different clients,is that what you use MRTG for?

As my little WISP system gets larger, I'm going to have to be able to do some kind of alarm monitoring and also BW consumption stats gathering. I had another guy walk into our office today, and tell me when I get my WISP signal in his neighborhood, he'll buy Internet service from me. I can't wait to get more APs up on a tall hill somewhere, so I can serve a very large area. Then I'll really get a bunch more customers. Which means, that I will need to get monitoring software such as you mentioned here.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17706472 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:33:12 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17705100 j2sw : I remember big brother years ago. Then they went crazy on what was considered a free license, what was not, etc. Now you have to e-mail them for a quote. I hate that.

Justin]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17705100 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:02:55 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17704915 superdog : We use Big Brother ( »bb4.com/ ). You can set it up to page You or text Your phone for just about any situation You can think of when it comes to hardware issues. It will also monitor Your servers and watch for full disks, bad disks etc. We also use MRTG to monitor most of our backbones. The Big Brother server should be offsite though, so if Your back bone goes down, it can still get out to send messages etc.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17704915 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:29:51 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17704482 j2sw : Cacti, Dude from Mikrotik, Nagios, and Look@Lan. All good ones. Look@Lan only runs on windows though.

Justin]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17704482 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:20:28 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580265 jbunyea : Nagios based...

»www.groundworkopensource.com/pro···iew.html]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580265 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:54:48 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17577050 gpilot : Lets not forget the DUDE. We found this to be great software and freeware also.

its on the Mikrotik website.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17577050 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:55:05 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576752 vincentfox : Nagios is for health-monitoring many aspects of a network and the hosts on it. I don't believe it has anything for traffic graphing that is the domain of other software like MRTG, Cacti, etc.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576752 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:00:00 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17572954 Airplane777 : Does Nagios also do BW stats?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17572954 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:12:09 EDT Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17568087 vincentfox : For monitoring, nothing beats Nagios. Open Source and lots of plugins. The initial learning curve is a bit steep, but after some initial setup work you just keep adding new hosts and checking new functions. I've recently added to mine, having it monitor processes on the remote AP's and routers. I get an email about a problem and if the phone rings I already know what it's about, sometimes it's already fixed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17568087 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:42:12 EDT Re: WISP management...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17564304 Keithb : As well as PRTG Traffic Grapher, Paessler also offer IP Check monitor that will send SMS alerts to your cell phones, etc. I haven't used it, so I can't say how good it works but not a bad price.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17564304 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:42:57 EDT Re: WISP management...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17553678 canadiancree : Regarding HP-Openview, as someone that used to use it a lot (for HP's Canadian network no less), I foudn it to be extremely useful and robust. However, unless your WISP is on par with the Bell's and Roger's of the world (or for our American readers, the AT&T's and Verison's of the world), the cost of the software would put it out of reach of most of us here.

Granted my cost info is at least a year old, but I doubt they've put it on sale anytime soon.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17553678 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:30:10 EDT Re: WISP management...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17551606 Rhaas : A couple of programs to look at:

1. I use cacti and cricket, I think for the most part Cacti will be easier to setup for setup simple results as it already has some templates as default. I still use cricket because there are a few scripts that I have written that I have yet to port into Cacti. MRTG (I am a *nix only shop so no experience with prtg) and Cricket are pretty close together as far as functionality, I jsut like the config of Cricket better than MRTG.

2. I use nagios and I plan on integrating it with Asterisk so that it has the capability to dial-out. Big-Brother, Big-Sister and HP-Openview are also monitoring\altert programs.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17551606 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:58:17 EDT WISP monitoring...general programs ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17551294 Airplane777 : As a WISP grows, I understand a WISP operator should consider deploying certain types of management/monitoring programs.

Without initially getting too specific about program names, can you tell me in general what programs I might need to deploy...as my WISP gets larger?

I will kind of guess here to give you an idea of what I'm looking for...

I figure I might need programs for:

1. Statistics bandwidth monitoring to monitor the BW used by each of my customers and the BW used by the whole system. I would need this "stats" data, in order to know if I need to order more BW capacity. And the individual stats will tell me who is the BW hog.

2. Alarm monitoring...to tell me if I lose an AP, a CPE, or router, etc. Maybe this program will call my cell phone or page me in some way if an outage occures.

Are these two general types of monitoring the only type of monitoring I might need to do?

Once I get the general types of monitoring figured out, then I'll "home in" on what the exact programs are that will let me do the monitoring that I need to do.

For instance...I understand that PRTG and MRTG are very good "stats" monitoring programs. I'll probably give them strong consideration.

But I'm not sure what program to use that will let me do alarm monitoring...so that I can find out right away when a piece of my equipment fails. I'd like to know, before a customer even calls me to report an outage.

Thanks for any info on this.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17551294 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:47:06 EDT