Alex, I have now enabled NMS polling at both of my locations. I have also loaded (and am running) "Morten's Host Alive" at the suggestion of Eric Calkins with each unit pinged once every 15 seconds or so.
Peter Loop Scorpio Ltd providers of Ledbury Broadband and Highnam Broadband www.ledburybroadband.co.uk www.highnambroadband.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of sB Tech Support Sent: 25 August 2003 09:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Auto-polling to keep units associated Our aim is do some polling to keep the unit "alive" at all times as some claim this will help. So it is interesting to know if this indeed helps. Alex sB Tech Support -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Cartwright Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 2:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Auto-polling to keep units associated Alex, OK I have set the logging on SimpleNMS (didn't realise it did this!). However, on looking at at the file being created (Stat_log) it only seems to collect basic information and not the detailed stuff that SimpleMonitor stores. Be interesting to see if this keeps the units associated. Peter Loop Scorpio Ltd providers of Ledbury Broadband and Highnam Broadband www.ledburybroadband.co.uk www.highnambroadband.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of sB Tech Support Sent: 24 August 2003 18:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Auto-polling to keep units associated You could use simpleNMS that has the ability to log the statistics (Ethernet & Wireless) or build MRTG to poll the statistics. When you click "select from available access point", it may not find one and you just click the refresh button and you should be able to see it. It perform exactly the same. Alex sB Tech Support -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Cartwright Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:13 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [smartBridges] Auto-polling to keep units associated Nish, One of our "problem" units (a new AirBridge Total) that kept regularly losing association has been good as gold this past week, ever since I started leaving SimpleMonitor running on a remote computer with link status logging for that unit. I read another post a day or so ago from someone who seemed to do something similar to "teach" his units to behave themselves! Could it be that this might be the lead everyone is looking for into the "losing association" issue? If doing something like this keeps the units associated, then I can only assume it is keeping the firmware away from a "bad" bit of code. Is there something that SmartBridges could knock up that would allow us to gather link status logging information for multiple units (using the exact same method as SimpleMonitor does now)? If this works, it could provide us all with an effective workaround until the exact issue is resolved. Another thought... I have been finding that I can (contrary to my initial thinking) often re-associate manually by using the Site Survey tab of SimpleMonitor (only works if I happen to be at a customer site when it is down of course). However, I generally have to hit the "refresh" button twice before the available APs show up. Is this significant, I wonder. How does the firmware code differ when searching for available APs when it loses association versus via the Site Survey "refresh" tool? Peter Loop Scorpio Ltd providers of Ledbury Broadband and Highnam Broadband www.ledburybroadband.co.uk www.highnambroadband.co.uk The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
