Eric, Thanks - where can I find this?
Would love to try it out, though not sure if it will be enough since I already leave SimpleNMS running which I assume does something similar. Peter Loop Scorpio Ltd providers of Ledbury Broadband and Highnam Broadband www.ledburybroadband.co.uk www.highnambroadband.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Calkins Sent: 24 August 2003 18:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Auto-polling to keep units associated Just setup a ping like morton host alive and ping all the units every couple min. mortons also emails you (or your cell) if the host goes down. FYI, there is also a known issue with the APPo and tranzeo cpe's. Pinging fixes this. Eric Peter Cartwright wrote: > Nish, > > One of our "problem" units (a new AirBridge Total) that kept regularly > losing association has been good as gold this past week, ever since I > started leaving SimpleMonitor running on a remote computer with link status > logging for that unit. I read another post a day or so ago from someone who > seemed to do something similar to "teach" his units to behave themselves! > Could it be that this might be the lead everyone is looking for into the > "losing association" issue? If doing something like this keeps the units > associated, then I can only assume it is keeping the firmware away from a > "bad" bit of code. > > Is there something that SmartBridges could knock up that would allow us to > gather link status logging information for multiple units (using the exact > same method as SimpleMonitor does now)? If this works, it could provide us > all with an effective workaround until the exact issue is resolved. > > Another thought... > > I have been finding that I can (contrary to my initial thinking) often > re-associate manually by using the Site Survey tab of SimpleMonitor (only > works if I happen to be at a customer site when it is down of course). > However, I generally have to hit the "refresh" button twice before the > available APs show up. Is this significant, I wonder. > > How does the firmware code differ when searching for available APs when it > loses association versus via the Site Survey "refresh" tool? > > Peter > > Loop Scorpio Ltd > providers of Ledbury Broadband and Highnam Broadband > www.ledburybroadband.co.uk > www.highnambroadband.co.uk > > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
