It's one of those that it may not work for you, but it works for me type
of things. I have a Spreadsheet for every POP that I put all the site
equipment in, UPS, Site Monitor, Backhauls, routers, etc. Then a set of
scripts read that file and builds the MRTG cfg File and web pages. The
script also does some other things, like on the 450 equipment, it
calculates what the Signal level should be based off of the SM Distance
and installed antenna bare/Stinger/dish and puts that in the webpage.
On 6/14/2016 10:32 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
How do you add devices to be monitored?
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
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Troy, OH 45373
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Nate Burke <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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.
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Best regards,
Brandon Yuchasz
GogebicRange.net
www.gogebicrange.net <http://www.gogebicrange.net>
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*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Nate Burke
*Sent:* Tuesday, June 14, 2016 10:00 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Session Counts in ePMP
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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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