Extended wireless reports

[hsachse]

I'm still missing historical data of important wireless metrics like channel utilization per ap/channel and historical data for other statistics you could view in the EWC reports like "Wireless Statistics by APs" and "AP Performance Report by Radio". A historical report of channel utilization could help you to find out were you have or are close to wireless performance problem or maybe a non-WiFi interference source exists.

I've tried to create my own custom report in OneView, but i could not found the values I'am looking for. Hopefully next version of Extreme Control Center add more usefull features to the Wireless Tab making admins lifes more easy. Compared to competitor WNMS many things are still missing.

If I'm wrong, please tell me how can view the things I'am looking for.

Best Regards
Hartmut

[Thomas_Hucke]

Hi Hartmut.
We are testing EMC (Netsight Suite 8.0.3.53) and still I can't find any information of Channel utilization of an AP. Could you resolve your problem meanwhile?

Regards,
Thomas.

[hsachse]

Hello James, thanks for your reply. I will try this, but its only a "hack" not a customer friendly solution.

I know you could do several interesting stuff at the CLI/linux busybox. With knowledge of the filesystem I've placed a picture in the guest portal voucher, also a hack, but many customer ask for it. The downside is not update save. Solutions like this are cool for "geeky" wireless guys or admins, but customers like easy useable solutions.

Hopefully Extreme listen more to customer requirements and the feedback from the Systems Engineers working in with there production in real world scenarios. Channel utilization history is one important feature every vendor should implement in there NMS/WNMS. Its not nice to have, its a must have in my opinion.

Kind Regards
Hartmut

[James_A]

If you download an AP report, the dcs file contains historical channel utilisation, or if you log in over SSH, it's /proc/dcs. Another totally undocumented way is if you get a shell on the controller and then use /var/controller/debug/cm/shmstatstest ap_channel_snmp_report which will give you the current data that you could then graph.

[Joshua_Puusep]

I've been told by GTAC that a lot of those snmptraps listed in the oneview reports are not enabled for typical collection. I was told that the ap channel utilization trap is only collected for VENUES. Not sure what "VENUES" means exactly.

If you go to oneview>administration>diagnostics (change the level to diagnostics in the top left)>historical statistics collector>statistics collection targets

Then filter the Type column for "AP", you will see all the ap's that netsight has collected data from. select an Active entry and show details. You will see all of the stats that oneview is collecting for that device. On my AP's, it is only collection 14 traps, even though there are so many more listed in the oneview reports.

This is been a major let down for me, as i haven't been able to report on things like historical channel utilization and DCS noise, even though the traps are available.

[hsachse]

Thanks for your answer. Hopefully Extreme makes it easier to access this data for all customers.