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Written by Airplane777
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Monday, 01 January 2007 |
" 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."
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.
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.
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