The recent report sent to this mailing list by U of T made me wonder
what University's are doing out there to collect information on their
wireless networks. I've been looking for a good way to
gather/store/display/aggregate AP statistics. We have a mixed AP
environment. Also, I'm thinking statistics as in number of users online
over time, throughput over time, throughput per user over time, etc.
Cacti, for example, is what I have been looking at to track # of users
on an AP. This organizes it pretty well but I haven't had success
aggregating the information together to form additional logical groups
like # of people on wireless in a building, number of people on wireless
for a quad, etc.
What apps/products does everyone out there recommend? What
apps/products should be avoided?
In addition to that, what specific metrics have been valuable to
gather? What metrics have been of little or no value or not worth the
effort to gather them?
I would like to hear about all products that people recommend but
specifically, at this time, I'm looking for freeware. (no budget
currently and not likely to get one)
Thanks,
Ryan.
Ryan Lininger
Network Systems Engineer
Denison University
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