I think you need to increase the number of monitor points to help with that. For example.
We monitor each thing at the tower to start and I am sure you are doing that. We have a device that we have that is plugged into unconditioned power also. Risky as it may get nailed but if we lose contact with it, generally it means there was a loss of power and we are on backup. We monitor CPU uptime on our radios also. This tells me if an AP has been rebooting a lot and if so, could mean it's going to die or that there is an ethernet issue otherwise. Information overload is the next best thing to being psychic I guess. You bring up a good point in monitoring. We have been trying to figure out how we can automatically monitor things on our network that allows us to start determining where and why issues happen. I feel, with all the monitoring we do, I am still blind to issues. Ping monitoring does not tell me when a customer is having poor speed issues, so we are not looking into how we can track link rates, ccq, AMQ and many other factors that can indicate when a customer is starting to degrade. Let me warn you all, with Title 2 rules and other BS the FCC is cooking up, we are all going to need to have more eyes on our networks telling us stuff many of us don't know about our networks. I have had to stare at screens manually for hours to figure out where and why a problem happens and given the volume of customers we have now, I am either going to have to start hiring more eyeballs or get some automation going. I don't see any help from the manufacturers right now on this front. This would be a good discussion at the CTO round table at WISPAPalooza. Or I can keep hoping that I crash into a truck with radioactive waste or maybe get bitten by a radioactive spider and develop those super powers I have always wanted. *Alex Phillips* CEO and General Manager RBNS.net HighSpeedLink.net *WISPA.org Board of Directors ** (2011-2016)* *WISPA President (2015-2016)* *540-908-3993* On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Matt Hoppes < [email protected]> wrote: > I would love to see dieing gasp functionality added to Ubiquiti gear. > > It would greatly aid the troubleshooting process as we could quickly know > if the radio died or was simply unplugged. > > Even so asking the end user of the PoE brick has power and can they power > cycle it only results in success part of the time :/ > > Same for APs. Did the tower just have a power issue, or did a lightening > strike just take things out? > _______________________________________________ > Ubnt_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users >
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