It has not. We have been using SNMP proactive monitoring for years. It takes more custom programming to make the SNMP data as realtime as one needs it to be viewed. And that is a much more complicated issue, as it requires consideration of a whole management platform and how that data is recovered in realtime in relation to realtime changes made to the link. Sometimes these changes are syncronized to the 4-5 seconds that that change was made. Just locating a specific radio in a list of 300-500 radio links in a remote management/monitoring platform is a challenge. It can take 10 minutes jsut to identify you are looking at the right radio. Plus if you pull data in realtime, there is also a significant bandwdith use.
It is jsut plain straight forward to have a tool built into the radio that one is already logged into and working on, that does.... Click Button, test runs. 10 seconds pass. Returns results, "This is the performance of the link". And have that data be detailed and complete. Packetloss, error rate, throughput, side of link the packets were lost on, etc. Its that simple. Even if I bought into your SNMP arguement, I'd argue the SNMP monitoring solution is NOT what it needs to be today. Don;t say HPOpen voew nobody can afford it, and don;t say MRTG and RDDTOOL, as thats months of custom programming to get it wher eit needs to be, and what we use now. But I will say, there is a huge oppoortunity for consultants and programmers to help write these platforms for WISPs. For example... Dude, is a cool Mikrotik Monitoring tool. It would be really easy to add a "test" button to a configured radio that would launch a test tool on the remote Mikrotik radio, and report back the results. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT tools > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Tom DeReggi wrote: > >>The problem with stats is they often are displayed as total loss >>from the beginning of time. Not specific to an exact period, of >>controled usage. What difference does a particular setting on a >>radio have, and the ability to measure it after the change nad >>before the next one. This is why ON-Demand test tools are useful, >>that home in on a predfined time period, and isntantly viewable. > > This is why SNMP is available. > >>Yes the data is out there, to enable writing the tool. The question >>is... Why hasn't it been written yet? > > It has. SNMP. That is called proactive monitoring. > > -- > ******************************************************************** > *Butch Evans *Professional Network Consultation * > *Network Engineering *MikroTik RouterOS * > *573-276-2879 *ImageStream * > *http://www.butchevans.com/ *StarOS and MORE * > *Mikrotik Certified Consultant *Wired or Wireless Networks * > ******************************************************************** > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
