We made the switch from Powercode to Sonar a little over a year ago.   All in 
all I think we are happy we made the switch, but polling is a challenge in 
Sonar as well.  Before making that switch, I’d love to talk to folks about some 
unexpected issues they are likely to encounter.   We also spun up LibreNMS to 
resolve many monitoring issues.   It really stinks to have to manage another 
system to do basic monitoring, but that is what we have to do.

I would love to see a hosted version of LibreNMS with an agent/appliance that 
could be deployed inside your network.   We don’t want to be in the server 
build/backup/management business, we’d rather be putting up towers.   Not sure 
if anything like that exists out there.

Regards,

David Coudron
From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 3:42 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] powercode and mikrotik BMUs

There is always sonar...

From: Steve Jones
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:34 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: [AFMUG] powercode and mikrotik BMUs

Powercode has become quite a joke. Half our probes havent worked for months and 
they dont even respond to the ticket. We had to spin up Librenms just to get 
monitoring data

Trying to integrate mikrotik BMUs and having issues, they have zero legitimate 
documentation and when you ask whats supposed to be happening they tell you to 
seek out a consultant and that the info may be proprietary.

Thats all bad enough, but i figure ill do some packet sniffing to find out what 
the communication is between the billing server and the mikrotik, maybe find 
out I misconfigured something, come to find out the nitwits are sending out the 
authentication in PLAIN TEXT. They dont even have a disclaimer when you add one 
of these. but christ, if youre operating an off network BMU, your 
infrastructure credentials are getting tossed into the ether like its nothing.

I wish simon hadnt left
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