The wireless monitoring in NPM collects a significant amount of data. for example:
Aruba Wireless Controllers
| Polled Information | OID Name | OID Value |
| Discovery | wlsxSysExtModelName | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.2.1.3 |
| Controller | Model | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.2.1.3 |
| Thin AP | IPAddress
Name
Status | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.5.2.1.4.1.2
1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.5.2.1.4.1.3
1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.5.2.1.4.1.19 |
| Thin AP Interface Link | ClientsCount | <strong>1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.5.2.1.7.1.12</strong> |
| Thin AP Interface | SSID
CurrentChannel
RadioType | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.1.3.3.1.2
1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.1.3.3.1.8
<span style="color:#ff0000;">1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.1.3.3.1.6</span> |
| Rogue | SSID
CurrentChannel | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.6.7.1.1.1.4
<strong style="color:#0000ff;">1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.6.7.1.1.1.2</strong> |
| Client | InDataRate
OutDataRate
InTotalBytes
OutTotalBytes
InTotalPackets
OutTotalPackets | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.1.2.2.1.9
1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.1.2.2.1.8
1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.1.2.3.1.4
1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.1.2.3.1.2
1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.1.2.3.1.3
1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.1.2.3.1.1 |
| Client Name | Name | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.4.1.2.1.3 |
| Client Signal Strength | SignalStrength | <em style="color:#339966;">1.3.6.1.4.1.14823.2.2.1.5.2.2.1.1.14</em> |
It can be seen from this that there is information about the thinAP, Rogues, and Clients
1/ the ThinAP information is useful.
2/ the Rogue information is not useful (just outside the campus proper most of the buildings are surrounded by business offering free WiFi; collecting rogue information is not useful.
3/ Students, on average have about 2.5 wireless devices each (staff have slightly fewer ~2.0) -- we peak at around 187,000; this is too much data to collect and I would like to turn it off.
I would like to be able to control which sections of data are collected from the controller -- right now a full poll takes well over 30 minutes; collecting the AP status information takes less than 20 seconds
Please modularize the AP polling and give us control over which sets of statistics are gathered.
