In response to Dave Molta's query:
Indiana University has well over 1000 access points. Our favorite
tool is the AMP software from Airwave. It provides an excellent
overall central management platform, supports many brands of APs,
pushes firmware, provides realtime data with detailed drill-down,
holds a database of configurations and matches that against SNMP
results (flagging mismatches due to mis-configuration), and provides
a ping failure alert service.
Sorry if that sounds like an ad, but unlike most management software
we have tried, it works well for us.
Another tool: One of our engineers carries a WiFi telephone (we don't
support this generally) as an application-level test of wireless
connectivity. If he gets good voice quality on the phone, his laptop
will be happy too. And it's a faster test than booting a laptop.
Tom Zeller
Telecommunications Technical Advisor
Indiana University
(812) 855-6214
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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