Ok, SEVERAL people asked me for this information so here goes.... cross posted even!
There are several different methods of gaining access to several different statistics on the Tranzeo radios. 1. The Web interface. (slow, slow and still slow... then multiply that by 2-700 radios. 2. Screen scraping or downloading the /com/ui.js file from each radio (total PITA! Get ready for base64 encoding hell.) 3. SNMP. A little faster, but requires some know how. I use option 1 to with the application "curl" <http://curl.haxx.se/> to update radio firmware: An example curl operation would be to upload firmware to the radio unit: > c:\>.\curl -F "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/upload.cgi I brute force this operation by making a text file with one line per radio. BEWARE this method can BREAK your radio!!!!!! WARNING!!!. A few minutes after I run this script, I the firmware version on the radio with SNMP (below) I used to use option 2 to get signal strength from the radios, I stopped doing this. Now, on to the question asked.... I use SNMP to query the radios for lots of data. To Start, get familiar with SNMP. You will need a few things. 1. A membership to WISPA: ASAP. Only 25ish a month, more than worth it! 2. A SNMP browser or walker of some sort: Windows users can get Getif <http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/getif.htm> a great little SNMP toy. All others can get the iReasoning Java based SNMP browser < http://www.ireasoning.com/mibbrowser.shtml> I use this one on OS X and it works great. 3. The Tranzeo private MIB: Download any firmware upgrade and extract the tranzeo.mib file. <http://support.tranzeo.com/files.php?download&uid=163> 4. The IEEE802dot11-MIB and IF-MI: from the ByteSphere MIB repository <http://www.oidview.com/mibs/detail.html> 802.11: <http://www.oidview.com/mibs/0/IEEE802dot11-MIB.html> Click the zip file icon to download it. IF-MIB: <http://www.oidview.com/mibs/0/IF-MIB.html> Now that you have all of that.. let's browse! 1. Toss the MIBs into the MIB folder of the getif or open iReasoning and import the MIBs into that application. 2. Setup the Tranzeo radio under Administrative Settings -> Read Community -> Read Community. (use something OTHER than a password you already use. This data is cleartext over the air and EASY to access! While it won't allow people to change things, they can tell how much bandwidth etc you are using and size up your customer base etc...) 3. Setup the Tranzeo radio under Statistics -> Check all of the boxes and click apply settings. This will allow you access to all of the 802.11 information. 4. open your MIB browser up and navigate to the following MIB: iso - org - dod - internet - private - enterprises - tranzeo Under this heading you will find signal -> rssi and Signal -> noise. There is a high, low and average for each of these headings. Pay attention to the OID listed for the items you are clicking on. In the case of rssi -> signalaverage the OID is .1.3.6.1.4.1.24575.1.1.2 Now how do we use all of this?!? 1. MRTG: This application is your friend. You do NOT want to be caught with your pants down when a customer calls you and tells you things are not fast enough or when you need to call and ISP and you need hard data. This application works on unix, windows, even netware!? <http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/>. I use this software to monitor several thousand switch ports, power usage, wind direction... well, just about everything. If you need to scale this application, you can upgrade the back-end to rrd-tool <http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/> You can find really basic config snippets here: <http://www.cspott.com/mrtg> Look carefully at the config lines and notice that I multiply everything by -1. MRTG cannot handle negative numbers multiplying by -1 reverses that. The result will be that all of your graphs will be "upside down". 2. Cacti: This application is VERY pretty and after you get into the cacti mindset, really easy to configure. I personally like the fact that I can click and drag and really get details as to what is going on. <http://cacti.net/> There is an XML template here for Cacti. <http://forums.cacti.net/about20777.html&highlight=tranzeo> since cacti is independent of MRTG and uses rrdtool as its backend, it can handle negative numbers. 3. Nagios: This application is the end all of monitoring, it can monitor just about anything. I have it monitoring for ping, and webpage load times on my customers radios. Since MRTG/Cacti will not graph text strings, I have Nagios check every few minutes via SNMP for the following OIDs: .1.2.840.10036.1.1.1.9.1 -> SSID that the radio is associated to. .1.2.840.10036.3.1.2.1.3.1 -> the Device Name assigned to the radio (it is a good reality check when you start getting IP address all mixed up!) .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3 -> system uptime (is the customer rebooting constantly?!) .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1 -> sysDescr (this gives the firmware and tells you that you have an "0dBi int. antenna!) I hope all of this helps those on the list. I started monitoring things and automating them because I am inherently lazy, not clever or something! I hope to have a more complete "how to" for WISPs showing all of the things that I had to find out for myself as I started doing all of this. When I put it out, I think I might put it in the WISPA members' area. Have a good day! ryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D. Ryan Spott Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Tranzeo] Does any one know of software that can read tranzeo radios signal strength on snmp? Yes, hit me off-list. Thanks! ryan -----Original Message----- From: "kerrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/12/07 5:46 PM Subject: [Tranzeo] Does any one know of software that can read tranzeo radios signal strength on snmp? Does any one know of software that can read tranzeo radios signal strength on snmp? 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