We at Georgia Tech use Airwave Management Platform with our network of roughly 850 access points. We have a mix of Cisco, Proxim, and even a Vivato thrown in. AMP monitors them all. It has been such an improvement to have a consistent user interface to manage all the APs from the different vendors.
We've got our captive portal configured to send radius accounting packets to AMP. This provides the mapping between client MAC address and user login name. When a user calls the helpdesk with a wireless complaint, we can look him up by login name and pretty quickly see what his client MAC address is, which AP he's associated with, etc. As one user commented, some functions are not well supported with the Proxim APs. In the case that mattered to us, Airwave told us that they can only present the data that Proxim provides and the Proxim APs were providing inaccurate data. The particular case was a Proxim AP1000 with dual 802.11b radios that was showing some crazy numbers (in the hundreds) of users associated simultaneously. This was skewing all the nightly reports of utilized APs, etc. I finally gave in and replaced the AP1000 with an AP2000. I really like the Airwave product. They're responsive to feature requests and their support folks are great. We've even written a few simple scrips to extract data from the Airwave data store. Very handy. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Technologies / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
