We currently use the Airwave AMP platform. It has worked great for us. Airwave two biggest niches in the industry is its reporting capabilities and that it supports muli-vendor APs. Aruba bought Airwave for the AMPs reporting capabilities.
Another plus about Airwave is that if you decide to go with a LWAPP controller setup so can use the Airwave AMP for reporting Also their support is some of the best in the industry. ---- Nicholas Urrea Information Technology UC Hastings College of the Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] x4718 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Hay Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Management Software I agree. We never purchased it because we moved to a controller based system, but AirWave was great when we tested it. Nathan Nathan P. Hay Network Engineer Computer Services Cedarville University www.cedarville.edu <http://www.cedarville.edu/> >>> Lee H Badman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/9/2008 10:57 AM >>> For multi-vendor management, AirWave is it. See http://www.networkcomputing.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197005719&qu eryText=AirWave It's not cheap, but is extremely powerful. One nice thing is that you can do basic switch monitoring (not management)despite it being a wireless management tool. Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Jr., D. Michael Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Management Software I need a quick survey of what all of you out there use for management of your wireless devices (APs and such). We are a small shop with only 127 Access Points and 97 switches but the number of APs will probably double within the next year or so. Most of our devices are HP but we have some legacy Cisco stuff too. Any advice would be appreciated on management software for handling firmware updates, mass configuration changes, monitoring, etc... Thanks, D. Michael Martin, Jr. Network Administrator University of Montevallo ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. <http://www.educause.edu/groups/> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. <http://www.educause.edu/groups/> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
