We have a wireless network that is currently available 24 X 7. It includes a guest SSID to allow visitors to our office to easily access the internet. In an effort to keep this account from being used by the neighbors to get free internet access, we are thinking of restricting its use to certain hours.
Since by monitoring the switch I can see the bandwidth used on the AP's, this seems like a perfect point to study to see if we even have any after hour's users to worry about. Now for the Zenoss question: Is there a way for me to set up an alert that is triggered during a certain window of time by use over a threshold that I set? One way I could do this would be to set the threshold and then use production state to say that the AP's are down during the day but this seems like a hack to me. It seems that there should be a way to do this in a more straight forward way. The data is all in the system, I just need to figure how to access and use it. If I can make this work it actually opens up Zenoss for use as a security tool. I.e. if somebody accesses the accounting system after hours, it alerts and, if this is not normal activity, I at least know to take a look. One thing that would be needed is to add a start and stop data/time filter to the alerting rules. This seems pretty easy. The other part would be to add filters that allow you to look at more than just events. This may not be so easy, I don't know. Anyway, thanks for any insight; James James Alspach Systems Analyst II Shasta County Office of Education 1644 Magnolia avenue Redding, California 96003 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> (530) 225-0293 IT Hotline: 225-0279 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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