I'm old school and still use MRTG with a bunch of custom scripting I
wrote, but you can substitute in your favorite graphing platform. I
graph these parameters and they have worked well for us for a number of
years. We monitor every SM in the network.
FSK - Traffic, RSSI, DBM, Associated to Which AP in Cluster
450- Traffic, DBM, SNR, V-H Ratio, Associated to Which AP in Cluster
EPMP - Traffic, MCS, DBM, TX Power, Associated to Which AP in Cluster
On 6/14/2016 10:18 AM, Brandon Yuchasz wrote:
Nate,
Can you go into a little more detail on how you monitor those SMs?
I always get a kick out of the Saturday afternoon calls when they have
not had internet for three days. I generally tell them I have put them
in the schedule for Monday and it�s a shame they didn�t call sooner I
was right by their house twice during the week. I know I should bite
my tongue but sometimes I can�t help myself. I think a lot of the
time people say its hasn�t working in days thinking it will add some
level of priority to it when in fact it just went off line a few
minutes ago.
Best regards,
Brandon Yuchasz
GogebicRange.net
www.gogebicrange.net <http://www.gogebicrange.net/>
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Nate Burke
*Sent:* Tuesday, June 14, 2016 10:00 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Session Counts in ePMP
I monitor all SM's directly (FSK,450 and EPMP).� Makes it very easy
to see if they have changing signal levels, or when they dropped
out.� Like if they slowly lose signal the entire month of May, then
you know it's trees.� But if they just lost 20db one day, then it
moved.� If it just dropped offline, then power supply.� Also
monitor the Sub Bandwidth, when they say 'No internet for a 2 days'�
You can tell them 'Check with your Kids, because someone has been
streaming non stop'.� Or the '2 days' really is only 2 hours, but
they want you to think it's worse.
On 6/14/2016 9:25 AM, Brandon Yuchasz wrote:
Since I came from a FSK background and then started in on the 450
platform I am having a few issues troubleshooting customers on
ePMP. In FSK and 450 you can log into the AP pull up the Session
Status tab and then scroll through looking at the session counts,
re-registrations, power levels and even see the SMs that are idle.
So if you are looking up a customer that �hasn�t has internet
since Monday� and you see they went idle with only one session
count and a� -62 at the time. You can assume the power supply
got damaged in the storm Monday afternoon. A little on the phone
support and they verify no green light.� On the other hand now
that the leaves are on the trees and nice and thick we can scroll
through the session counts and find customers that have been up
for 8 years that are now having issues with the tree cover. 568
session counts in 24 hours. Yep best put them in the schedule and
get out at take a look.
�
So�. Where the heck do I find similar information in ePMP. I
can�t even find if a session is idle.� I can find how many SMs
have registered to the AP but no specifics about which SM it was
or if all the extras are one SM , guys doing site surveys or a
combo of both. So how are you guys troubleshooting the ePMP
platform? I feel blind using this stuff.
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Best regards,
Brandon Yuchasz
GogebicRange.net
www.gogebicrange.net <http://www.gogebicrange.net/>
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