Re: [smartBridges] WISP Management and Support Suite

[Dennis Burgess]

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Tom,   I have joined up.  I can't wait for this group to get going full speed.  May I make a suggestion.  There was a EXCELLENT artical posted a couple days ago for Grounding of your WISP tower.  That E-Mail would be great to put on line.  There are of couse others, but that one has stood out for me.    Dennis   ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Haynes To: Smart Bridges list Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 2:07 AM Subject: [smartBridges] WISP Management and Support Suite I have started a new project at sourceforge.net called WISP-MSS located here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wisp-mss/   Everyone, please visit the forums and post any wish lists. This is an open source project that will be available to everyone for free. The more ideas that we get, the better the suite will be. If anyone is interested in contributing to documentation, scripting, user interface, technical advice, visual appearance or to submit any custom scripts that you have already created and would like to share please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can add you to the developer group.   Current ideas for WISP-MSS: SNMP management of network (similar to simpleNMS but with more features for SB tweaking and other mfg device support) Network event management (IE. Email soandso about action A, send reset command if action B, poll for events and traps, etc...) Bandwidth management Customer tracking Accounting Billing Inventory tracking (deployed and stock) Network mapping and visualization Network simulating Coverage mapping Client help desk and support center Knowledge base Client forums and mailing lists Network service management (DNS, DHCP, NNTP, SMTP, Routing, etc...) Network planning services   Design concept: Suite will be configured to run from a central location ran by third party for most functions, eliminating the need to indepth knowledge of services required. Company and customer private information will reside on your own network and used by web based scripts running on you own machines so no private information ever leaves your control. Network monitoring and control is cordinated by third party servers using monitoring software run on your network. Monitoring software uses self-contained 'Watchdogs' to maintain management when off network methods are unavailable. The 'Third Party' could be a distributed service ran on all of the Suite's user's computers to keep availability high and computer time free as well as having multiple routes to check for system integrity.