It would be really nice to be able to pull the serial numbers of lightweight access points from NPM or NCM. The controllers keep that information, so there's probably some way to get it through the Cisco LWAPP MIB.
Fair enough request, I will get this filed into the system
You can already do that today with the Universal Device Poller. Since Vendors Vary the MIB and OIDs for the Serial Numbers, you will need to check the vendor for the MIB/OID.
I know I can get the SN for an individual, SNMP-enabled node with a UnDP; I already do that for all my Cisco IOS devices.
The wireless LAN controllers are a bit of a different animal. Each WLC controls up to several hundred access points. Since NPM already automatically reads the names and IP addresses of all these access points from each controller and puts them in a nice table, it doesn't seem like an unreasonable request to have it read other key inventory data about the access points, such as serial number, location, etc.
Hi,
I agree with jswan, UnDP is good, however its not as visually good as the obvious inbuilt resources, and it is only associated to an object.
I would go to extend the wireless tab to be able to treat an SSID as an object and do reports on this object.
FOr instance if we run 3 wireless networks it would be great to have a report and a chart/graph that plots the number of associated users to a SSID(Enterprise Wide) over time. In its current for there is very little information within the wireless tab that can give you trending data for the wireless infrastructure as a whole.
Miron
Brandon,
Do you know if enchanced wireless reporting is on the roadmap. It appears to be a realatively static area (wireless) in terms of new functionality.
Regards
This is something we are looking at, however, recently we have been focused on adding more coverage as UnDP can be used as a stop gap. We added Meru Controller support in NPM 10.1
The OID which seems to give the SSID information is:
1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.4.1.7
The problem is that this is in a table format.
So each client is represented in the Row ID and the Test Result is the SSID they are joined to.
Unfortunately I have not found a OID that just gives the SSID Name/ID and the count of clients
So I assume this means that unless you are able to do a count in the table where the test result equals your SSID you cannot graph this "Count" in Solarwinds.
Miron,
I am a Product Manager on NPM (working with Brandon).
I will contact you off-line to drill down on your requirements from this thread (SSID as primary object, users count per SSID...
Francois Caron. Snr Product Manager.
