There are several problems with STB monitoring in Spectrum 1 – the sheer number of devices. It quickly becomes troublesome to keep all those in Spectrum and keep Spectrum in sync with the changes. So you would need to have some type of automation setup to make sure that you keep Spectrum up to date. There used to be the broadband service container that worked out well for summarizing the information. It gave you a way to group devices together, so let’s say you want all the STBs off a particular node in one container. Then you could alarm when a certain percentage of those went offline or alarmed. It was handy.
2 – The changing IP address problem in Spectrum. Spectrum likes static IPs. It doesn’t handle DHCP well at all. So, what we used to do is to use other devices that would summarize the information about the STBs for us. For example, there are quite a few tables in the NC that tell you about the condition of the STB. Even that was cumbersome to maintain. So at this point, we have moved STB mgmt to our own in-house developed tool and we are using Spectrum for monitoring CMTS up through the core. Anything between the CMTS and the home is handled by our own tool. This could be an interesting area for CA to explore. However, they would need to be able to handle DHCP and also link in with provisioning systems to keep modeling accurate. Bill Barnes From: <Bohra>, Saurabh <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "Bohra, Saurabh" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday, May 8, 2015 at 7:58 AM To: spectrum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [spectrum] Set top box (STB) monitoring Does anyone have experience which you can share doing deep down monitoring set top boxes (STB’s), using Spectrum on any other product or method? Thanks, Saurabh Bohra Sr. Network Mgmt Systems Analyst ESPN Inc. O: 860-766-0842 | M: 860-385-3597 | e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> * --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
