gunther_01
Premium
join:2004-03-29
Saybrook, IL
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Re: Monitoring Wireless Networks
said by 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. 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. |
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joemaloy
join:2004-12-21
Tonopah, AZ | reply to robertj
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. |
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lutful
Premium
join:2005-06-16
Ottawa, ON
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| reply to robertj
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. |
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korym
Go Wisp's
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join:1999-12-23
Richmond, VA
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| reply to robertj
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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robbin
Premium,MVM
join:2000-09-21
Leander, TX
| reply to Rej
Wispermapper/Intermapper is a good product depending on the radios you want to monitor. It doesn't work well for the Trango client device. I also noticed that their prices have gone up!  |
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Rej
@shawcable.net | reply to robertj
For our WAN we've been using wispermapper/intermapper by dartware and it's worked 100%. They have updates to the software every 4 months adding new probes and new features. |
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gunther_01
Premium
join:2004-03-29
Saybrook, IL | reply to robertj
Cacti should be able to monitor any device that has SNMP. As long as your client,AP, switch, whatever,,, offers that protocol. |
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robertj
join:2006-11-07
Ogden, UT | reply to BinarySeed
We already use cacti to monitor our network, however is cacti able to monitor wireless networks? Can you watch packet loss, signal strengths, etc.? |
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rb384997
join:2006-10-31
Athens, OH | reply to BinarySeed
nagios , big brother |
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BinarySeed
join:2005-11-03
Kalispell, MT
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You can use Cacti. It's a free open source monitoring tool.
-- 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/ |
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gunther_01
Premium
join:2004-03-29
Saybrook, IL | reply to robertj
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. |
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viperm
Carpe Diem
Premium
join:2002-07-09
Winchester, CA
| reply to robertj
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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Keithb
join:2003-09-16
US | reply to robertj
You could try: »www.paessler.com/prtg
It's a freeware for Windows.
If the devices are capable of SNMP you can sniff a great deal of information. |
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robertj
join:2006-11-07
Ogden, UT
|  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. |
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