Tom, Take a look at Cacti (www.cacti.net) to do this. It allows you to give create users and only give them access to their data. It can also display 95% usage and total transfer so customers can know what their billing will be.
> Adam, > > You lsited some Neat/powerful feature ideas, Nagios is capable of. > > Are you aware if any of the Monitoring solutions support displaying unique > info for multiple resellers of the ISP. > Meaning... It nice to collect a historical log of uptime or downtime. I'd > like my custoemrs to view their specific info, but not all the info of my > otehr customers. > And I'd like my resellers to view info for all their custoemrs, but not my > other customers. > > This is one of the issues when I ised RRDTool and MRTG to collect data... > I > only collect it into a common portal. I'd rather have it multi-user, > multi-view. > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 3:42 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Monitor > > >> Another 2 cents of mine.... >> >> I took a look at OpenNMS and The Dude. I have been using Nagios since >> the days of it being called "Netsaint". You literally can make Nagios >> check anything and respond in almost any way to an outage. It's free and >> open source and I believe really has the capability to show what OSS is >> all about. >> >> Some things that are extremely cool (and really not hard to implement) >> for nagios that are WISP/ISP specific: >> >> - Check various wireless gear signal strengths and compare them to >> temperature and fog conditions of weather in that area. Adjust >> notifications of lower signals based on that info. (i.e., it's foggy, I >> would rather know there is fog than to get alerts of a sudden drop in 50 >> radios) >> >> - Checking/Notification of BGP peers receiving significantly less routes >> than they should >> >> - Access point drops all of it's associated radios. Nagios can try to >> "fix" the problem by running a script which would reboot the AP. Didn't >> work? Well then it notifies you. It also notifies that it tried >> rebooting ;) >> >> Have an idea of something you want implemented? Write a bash script, >> perl script or C/C++ app to do it and let nagios have fun. There are >> other things like grouping services/checks/hosts etc. by using regular >> expressions. All I do is add a device to our network and create a file >> with a specific host name in the file and IP address. Nagios takes care >> of looking at the name to identify what type of services should be >> checked etc. >> >> Really Nagios just gives you ultimate flexibility. I can't seem to find >> in OpenNMS where you can identify thresholds for various services. It >> only appears that they must match up with a MIB file for results. I also >> don't necessarily like that I have to define downtimes in an XML file >> with OpenNMS. Nagios I can just click on a host and schedule it right >> there. Or for an entire group of hosts. But maybe I missed that in >> OpenNMS on accident? >> >> If you want something with Nagios flexibility with a really good web >> interface, check out Centreon at www.centreon.com >> >> >> Adam Kennedy >> Senior Network Administrator >> Cyberlink Technologies, Inc. >> Phone: (888) 293-3693 >> Fax: (574) 855-5761 >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Dennis Burgess >> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 11:57 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Monitor >> >> Free is also a good thing. Alerts and such work great, the kewl part is >> >> the agents. You can put a remote agent out there ( we use it for >> hotspot networks ), and the agent polls the devices behind the NAT at >> the hotspot location. Slick as can be, simple, and works! >> >> Guess I am biased though, seeing I'm one of two MT Dude Consultants. :) >> >> >> We have been putting these in quite a bit, takes some time if you start >> building from scratch, but works like a champ! >> >> >> Tom DeReggi wrote: >>> Well, >>> >>> Very good question, and I only have one answer... >>> >>> Nagios/Cacti is open source, so it can be adapted to the WISP's >> specific >>> need as required. >>> >>> However, for someone that doesn't want to be a developer, I agree, >> Dude is >>> pretty sweet, and much easier to put up and run. >>> >>> Tom DeReggi >>> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc >>> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Jim Patient" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 5:01 AM >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Monitor >>> >>> >>> >>>> I'm having a hard time understanding why yawl just wouldn't use the >>>> Dude? It's FREE, it emails me in the event of an anomaly, sends text >>>> msgs, monitors/graphs number of hotspot users, bandwidth, outages, >>>> traffic on my links, uptime, or just about anything else you want to >>>> look at, log, notify you of, login to, upgrade, or have your wife go >>>> fix;-) It even has a nice pretty web interface for your level 1 >> support >>>> crew (daughter or son) to look at. >>>> >>>> I'm interested in finding out what I would gain by running Nagios or >>>> Cacti? From what I see on this thread, it would take both to do the >> job >>>> of just one Dude? >>>> >>>> Jim >>>> >>>> rabbtux rabbtux wrote: >>>> >>>>> I used the cacti/nagios combo for years, but in Feb I switched to >>>>> OpenNMS. >>>>> It was tricky to get setup, and the folks on their IRC were >> invaluable! >>>>> Now >>>>> it auto scans multiple ip networks and ranges I specify every 4 >> hours and >>>>> sends me a txt msg each time I add customers. For all the normal >> stuff >>>>> it >>>>> runs every 5 minutes and produces graphs for not just ping but >> 'smoke >>>>> ping', >>>>> http, dns, ssh, and other commonly discovered ports. It also >> collects a >>>>> good bit of snmp data and graphs it. The time invested and IRC >> questions >>>>> this last Feb are paying off in a sweet way now. My system looks at >> a >>>>> couple hundred interfaces and a total of about a thousand >> ports/graphs >>>>> for >>>>> the network. Just My 2 cents worth. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Adam Kennedy >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> The Wireless Connections app is actually based on Cricket, not >> Cacti. >>>>>> Huge difference there... >>>>>> >>>>>> I have released Alvarion templates for the Cacti system. They are >>>>>> available from the Cacti forums at: >>>>>> http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=18328 >>>>>> >>>>>> We also run the Nagios/Cacti combo. I have quite a few years of >> Nagios >>>>>> experience behind me if anyone needs some guidance getting things >> going. >>>>>> We currently have 631 hosts and 4,382 services being checked every >> 2 >>>>>> minutes or so on Nagios with average service check latency of 3.06 >>>>>> seconds >>>>>> >>>>>> Yea, it's pretty sweet :P >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Adam Kennedy >>>>>> Senior Network Administrator >>>>>> Cyberlink Technologies, Inc. >>>>>> Phone: 888-293-3693 >>>>>> Fax: 574-855-5761 >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>>>>> Behalf Of John Rock >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:26 PM >>>>>> To: WISPA General List >>>>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Monitor >>>>>> >>>>>> Check our free application that initiates Cacti graphs and config >> files >>>>>> can >>>>>> easilly be made and/or updated to adapt to about any SNMP device. >>>>>> All we ask is that you buy all your gear from us... >>>>>> Kidding of course. The system is a bit dated but we can help adapt >> it to >>>>>> >>>>>> your needs. We also have a free support email list to get your >> questions >>>>>> >>>>>> answered. >>>>>> >>>>>> Software: >>>>>> >> http://www.wirelessconnections.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_ >>>>>> >> download&gid=23&&Itemid=58<http://www.wirelessconnections.net/index.php? >> option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=23&&Itemid=58> >>>>>> >>>>>> RTFM: >>>>>> >> http://www.wirelessconnections.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_ >>>>>> >> download&gid=22&&Itemid=58<http://www.wirelessconnections.net/index.php? >> option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=22&&Itemid=58> >>>>>> >>>>>> Copy and paste the entire links if the don't work correctly.... >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> >>>>>> John Rock >>>>>> Wireless Connections >>>>>> Director of Operations - Senior Engineer >>>>>> ACCessing the Future Today!! >>>>>> ofc. 419.660.6100 >>>>>> cell 419-706-7356 >>>>>> fax 419-668-4077 >>>>>> http://www.wirelessconnections.net >>>>>> This transmission and any files attached to it, may contain >> confidential >>>>>> >>>>>> and/or privileged information and intended only for the named >> recipient. >>>>>> If >>>>>> you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that >> any >>>>>> disclosure, reproduction, retransmission, dissemination, >> disclosure, >>>>>> copying >>>>>> or any use of the information or files contained is strictly >> prohibited. >>>>>> If >>>>>> you have received this transmission in error, please notify the >> sender >>>>>> by >>>>>> reply transmission and delete this electronic mail. >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Carl Shivers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:02 PM >>>>>> Subject: [WISPA] Network Monitor >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> We are looking for Network monitoring software. 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