Site is at https://sonar.software, there is a pricing calculator on the front page if you want to run the numbers.
The current release has a complete billing system (with usage based billing) and CRM, inventory management, IPv4+IPv6 IPAM, various provisioning options (DHCP, RADIUS, MikroTik, Procera, Telrad), a ticketing system, and a bunch of the typical things you'd expect (Form 477 generator, elevation profiles, mapping, etc.) Next release will have a field management/scheduling system, which is coming out next month. We're launching a CDR rating engine pretty soon, and the release after that will be a network monitoring module, which will bring us to 1.0. After that, we have a massive list of stuff to add to improve on current features, as well as adding some new ones I haven't talked about yet. We'll be at 1.0 by WISPAPALOOZA.
We have a lot of fairly unique features I think - for example, a full REST API (https://sonar.software/apidoc/) which has already been used by a lot of people to build some pretty cool stuff. We also have a GitHub account at https://github.com/sonarsoftware that has a bunch of things we've built to interface with the API that we give away for free, including a customer portal you can download and customize to your hearts content.
There's a lot more neat stuff we have built in.. full real time search of all your customer/network data, an interface completely optimized for mobile devices, billing that scales to millions of accounts, as well as a lot of little features that I think are pretty unique (as a single example, you can configure Sonar to track whenever a customer views an email Sonar sends, so that you can see if they viewed a ticket response, or looked at their bill.)
Bunch of videos at https://sonar.software/casts if you want to check it out - some of them are of a fairly old version of Sonar, but they should give you a good idea of how it works and what it does. I'll be updating them all once we hit 1.0. System is fully documented internally - each page has documentation available while you're logged in. If you want to check it out, go to https://sonar.software/home, create an account, and you can have your own Sonar instance to play with in <90 seconds.
On 8/19/2016 10:08 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Tell us more. Price, capabilities, URL etc. *From:* Simon Westlake <mailto:simon@sonar.software> *Sent:* Friday, August 19, 2016 8:54 AM *To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SonarYes, it's been available since early this year. You can sign up on the site and get immediate access.On 8/19/2016 9:45 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:Is anything released? *From:* Jon Bruce <mailto:jbruce-af...@ptpbroadband.com> *Sent:* Friday, August 19, 2016 8:44 AM *To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] DHCP option 82 + Canopy + Powercode Yes, Sonar. It's looking really good. On 8/19/2016 10:21 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:WRT PC, wasn’t Simon working on something that possibly could be a competitor?*From:* Jon Bruce <mailto:jbruce-af...@ptpbroadband.com> *Sent:* Friday, August 19, 2016 8:07 AM *To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] DHCP option 82 + Canopy + PowercodeWe're using PC with DHCP for management of SMs and for public IPs. Each is on it's own VLAN and IPs are given out by PC based on MAC address.PC can do RADIUS and has it (sort of half, almost, kinda) built in but I haven't made it work (yet). Calling support will only leave you curled up in a ball, crying.Under Network -> Servers, there is RADIUS and Canopy RADIUS. I asked once what the difference was, what they were meant to do differently and why there are two and was met with documentation removed from their site and several support calls and emails ignored.I hope that helped a little. If anyone can share information on RADIUS and PC, I would love it. On 8/19/2016 1:19 AM, George Skorup wrote:The only thing is full relay vs insertion only. Full relay probably wouldn't work in this scenario. Because you can't define the L3 relay IP per VLAN. The AP is going to relay all DHCP requests to the specified address. I still say the way to go is static management IP on the SMs.Wait... am I being stupid again? Is option 82 inserted for the SM itself or not? Been a while since I messed with it. If it does, that would be a good feature request for Cambium. Let us turn that off for the SM itself.On 8/19/2016 12:03 AM, Sean Heskett wrote:Good call on the VLANs George! I think that might be the ticket. That gives me something to try in our lab :) -SeanOn Thursday, August 18, 2016, George Skorup <geo...@cbcast.com <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>> wrote:Does PC do the zero-touch config? Why can't a new SM come up and get the option 66 info for the config URL, then download its config which contains a static management IP? Or, what about separating things in VLANs? Put your SM management on a dedicated VLAN with its own DHCP server instance and the various options you need? Customer/user/data VLAN would be another DHCP server where you'd act upon the Agent-Remote-ID option 82 info. On 8/18/2016 11:25 PM, Sean Heskett wrote:right now everything is static (mgmt and public ip) we try to deploy SMs with NAT enabled but that's not possible half the time for one reason or another. Once we move to powercode I want to use their zero touch config (dhcp option 66) to config the SM and then option 82 if the SM is bridged to give an ip to their router or our managed calix router. I'd prefer to not have to keep track of router MACs especially if the router is the customer's and not our calix. Powercode doesn't use RADIUS so I'd probably have to set that up on the side or something. Like I said I want to make this as automagic as possible and I'm wondering if anyone has already gone thru this so I don't have to reinvent the wheel. Powercode didn't have any ideas of how to accomplish this so maybe I'm blazing a trail on the cutting edge :-/ -Sean On Thursday, August 18, 2016, George Skorup <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','geo...@cbcast.com');> wrote: I assume you're doing bridge mode? Use RADIUS to assign the SM's management IP. Then DHCP + Op 82 is used for the customer equipment. We just do static management IP on the SMs. Playing with NAT + DMZ on the customer side. Traceroute and other ICMP responses don't work through NAT mode, even with DMZ. And L2TP tunnels. I forget what else I tested on my SM at home. So far I'm not too thrilled with it. On 8/18/2016 10:08 PM, Sean Heskett wrote:Hummmm that's the conclusion we were coming to also. I'm trying to find a way to make it all automagic but that seems not possible :-/ -Sean On Thursday, August 18, 2016, Joe Novak <jno...@lrcomm.com> wrote: From how I understand it that is not possible unless you plan on managing via the public IP. Option 82, in its simplest form, just allows accounting via the SU mac address, along with what 'circuit' (AP) it came from. I think in your situation if you want to use powercode to hand out public addresses you will need a static management network for CPEs. On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: Thx joe, So if it sends the same 0a:00:3e MAC for the bridged device, how do you get the dhcp server to send the management IP to the SM since that would be the same MAC?? -Sean On Thursday, August 18, 2016, Joe Novak <jno...@lrcomm.com> wrote: Sean, No problem! Cambium 450/EPMP behave the same way I am pretty sure without looking at my notes. This post describes it perfectly and also has a raw dump of the dhcp request: http://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t5/PMP-450/DHCP-Opt-82/td-p/39636 <http://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t5/PMP-450/DHCP-Opt-82/td-p/39636> OPTION: 82 ( 29) Relay Agent Information Circuit-ID 0a:00:3e:XX:XX:XX #AP MAC Remote-ID 0a:00:3e:YY:YY:YY #SU Wireless MAC That means that even if the client is in bridge mode the only mac address you need to track is the subscriber unit. I do not know any powercode specific stuff but I am looking at implementing with DHCP ISC. On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: Hey joe, Yeah we are mocking it up in our lab right now. Mainly need to know what MAC gets sent for all the different interfaces - management, NAT enabled, bridged etc. Powercode will only let you add one IP and MAC per device. Since we are in the process of importing all our data for the migration to PC I'd like to set it all up now to be ready for option 82 in the future ;) Joe, do you mind if our network engineer Elijah contacts you off list?? Thanks, Sean On Thursday, August 18, 2016, Joe Novak <jno...@lrcomm.com> wrote: I plan on implementing it with cambium both 450/epmp. Any specific questions? I learned a lot by taking a setting up a dhcp server with whatever verbose logging turned on and watching the requests. On Aug 18, 2016 8:13 PM, "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: I'm almost certain someone does... But I'm not 100% Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340> Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343> 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Aug 18, 2016 8:51 PM, "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: Powercode said they had never done it and didn't know anyone who had. (I was kinda surprised at that response) Figured I'd check to see if y'all had used it. -Sean On Thursday, August 18, 2016, Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: Have you contacted Powercode about this or no? I figure they'd know, their wisp is Canopy. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340> Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343> 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Aug 18, 2016 8:35 PM, "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: We are in the process of migrating to powercode...it's not an easy task but I think it will be well worth it. Lots of details to figure out lol. -Sean On Thursday, August 18, 2016, Tushar Patel <tpa...@ecpi.com> wrote: You moved to powercode!!! Tushar > On Aug 18, 2016, at 6:16 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > > Hey gang, > > Any experts out there have experience with DHCP option 82 + Canopy + Powercode? If so can I pick your brain??? > > Thanks, > > Sean > >-- Simon Westlake Skype: Simon_Sonar Email:simon@sonar.software Phone: (702) 447-1247 --------------------------- Sonar Software Inc The next generation of ISP billing and OSS https://sonar.software
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