Hi Adair, We would be interested in hearing more about this. We have much to learn about Powercode, but as of yet, we aren’t able to do what Christopher is asking about below. We can SNMP pull the MAC for Rx and Tx and we can get the traffic Rx and Tx throughput on the radio. However, because the MAC changes all the time due to small changes in signal strength etc, or if there is new interference that shows up, we never have a consistent MAC number to work with. That coupled with an ever changing amount of traffic being sent through the radio means that we would need a real time calc to take traffic divided by MAC Tx and Rx to figure out how much of the currently available MAC is being used by the amount of traffic going through the radio (near realtime utilization of the link). Powercode can get the individual data points, but we have not found a way to do the calculation and present that in its own graph. We’d love to be able to do this right in Powercode though. Is that what you are doing with Grafana? If you have done this in Powercode and would be willing to share, we’d owe you more than a couple of beers 😊
Thanks, David Coudron david.coud...@advantenon.com<mailto:david.coud...@advantenon.com> | Mobile: 612-991-7474 Advantenon, Inc. [cid:image001.png@01CEE562.60FF8FC0] <http://www.linkedin.com/company/Advantenon> [cid:image002.png@01CEE562.60FF8FC0] <http://www.twitter.com/Advantenon> [cid:image003.png@01CEE562.60FF8FC0] <http://www.facebook.com/Advantenon> [cid:image004.png@01CEE562.60FF8FC0] <http://blog.advantenon.com/> i...@advantenon.com<mailto:i...@advantenon.com> | 3500 Vicksburg Lane N, Suite 315, Plymouth, MN 55447 | www.advantenon.com<http://www.advantenon.com/> | Phone: 800-704-4720 | Local: 612-454-1545 [cid:image005.jpg@01D340FD.3FAB2280] From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adair Winter Sent: Monday, October 9, 2017 10:49 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Link Utilization Monitoring It's really not that hard. On Oct 9, 2017 8:33 AM, "Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com<mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote: powercode "does" this with snmp, but requires too much work to get the right graphs and alerts set up On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Adair Winter <ada...@amarillowireless.net<mailto:ada...@amarillowireless.net>> wrote: The do this with grafana, it's pulling link capacity and looks at throughput, if it gets with in 90% we get an alert in slack On Oct 9, 2017 7:12 AM, "Christopher Tyler" <ch...@totalhighspeed.net<mailto:ch...@totalhighspeed.net>> wrote: So, what are people using to monitor their backhaul links? Specifically, how do you get notified when a link is getting close to saturation? Does your solution take RF link quality into account or is it blind to the actual, real-world link capabilities? Looking for something that is fire and forget. I think that initial data entry and updates will quickly become untenable if the responsibility for determining the link speed is left to a manual process. For example, if I have to run a link test to determine the link speed for every link, then that is going to be a nightmare just for the initial data entry alone. If I have to do that even once a week, it becomes a non-starter. By the time I was finished doing them all, I'd immediately have to start over to keep the links even close to being accurate. That would require a full-time employee just to handle that single task. I don't care if it's open or closed source, free or paid. I just need something that works. -- Christopher Tyler MTCRE/MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCWE Total Highspeed Internet Services 417.851.1107<tel:417.851.1107>
