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Feature Requests Wireless AP Monitoring Enhancements

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over 4 years ago

Wireless AP Monitoring Enhancements

I'm bringing this back since I can't reply or edit .

In addition to ideas posted in I have some which I think are long overdue:

Make Machine Type of access point, the actual Machine Type and not the Machine Type of the Wireless Controller.
Make Access points manageable objects without license penalty which can be individually added to a Network Atlas Map. Not just adding an Access point as an ICMP node without advanced information such as clients, RSSI, etc.
Create custom properties for each access point so I can enter custom details about the Access Point like location information.
Access point visibility on switches.
Create Dependency where access point has a Parent of the switch to which it is attached. (courtesy of cbaser)

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tallyrich over 8 years ago

We use Aruba wireless and all of the AP information comes through the controller. It would be great if that individual AP information could come to Solarwinds so that we could look at all the APs from our preferred tool.
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tallyrich over 8 years ago

We use Aruba wireless and all of the AP information comes through the controller. It would be great if that individual AP information could come to Solarwinds so that we could look at all the APs from our preferred tool.
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tallyrich over 6 years ago in reply to tallyrich

Since my orifinal posting of this we have switched from Aruba - boo hiss over to Ruckus Wireless - Yippie, yeah, "you're my hero" (just some of the comments that I have heard - yes, it's working a million times better but I don't want to exaggerate so I'll just say 999,999x better)
With the Ruckus I have created universal pollers that allow me to reach into every AP and get any statistic I need.
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