Hello to everyone,
We have a wifi network infrastructure composed of few centralized controllers managing Thin AP spreaded everywhere.
Until now information for the Thin AP has been gathered through the "Wireless" view in NPM, where, thanks to the information in the controllers is possible to know which wlans are broadcasted by the thin AP, how many clients are connected and so on.
The fact is, we want to have this Thin APs also as physical nodes inside NPM, so we added them (ICMP only).
Now, the thing I would like to do is to bind the NPM nodes for the thin AP (which are stored in the db inside the Nodes table, with a unique NodeID) with the thin AP as seen on the wifi page (which are stored in the NPM_NV_WL_APS table with another type of ID, RecordID). This is needed in order to include, inside the node details view with the standard information for the node collected by NPM, details about Wlans and Clients connected to the AP.
The main binding factor I can see is the IP address (Nodes.IP_Address and NPM_NV_WL_APS.IPAddress) which unfortunately is not taken into account automatically by NPM.
Is there a possibility to create custom resource objects?
i.e. this resource:
Is the resourceID 672, and it is populated by the system with the ThinAP ID (NPM_NV_WL_APS.RecordID) and the wireless controller ID (NPM_NV_WL_APS.NodeID).
Is there the possibility to load it inside the NPM node details page dynamically passing to it the two values taken in the db in some sort of sql query?
Starting from the nodeID, that is surely available since it's in the link to the Node details page it should be possible with a simple innerjoin like:
Select AP.RecordID, AP.NodeID From Nodes inner join NPM_NV_WL_APS AP on Nodes.IP_Address = AP.IPAddress where nodes.NodeID = *currentviewednodeid*
If this is not possible, I would like to have at least a link to the whole page containing wifi informations (i.e. _ttp://Orion/Orion/NetPerfMon/NodeDetails.aspx?thinap=42322&netobject=N:2441&viewkey=Wireless%20Thin%20AP )
Can this kink be somehow dynamically obtained?
Maybe via HTML and custom SQL variables like:
<a href=_ttp://orion/Orion/NetPerfMon/NodeDetails.aspx?thinap=${SQL:Select AP.RecordID From NPM_NV_WL_APS AP AP.IPAddress = ${IP_Address}}&netobject=N:${SQL:Select AP.NodeID From NPM_NV_WL_APS AP AP.IPAddress = ${IP_Address}}&viewkey=Wireless%20Thin%20AP>Wifi Details</a>
I've also thought about manually putting the thin AP ID and Controller ID inside a couple of custom properties for the node.. than a link could easily be obtained with the user links function, which parses custom properties... the problem is, the thin AP may switch to another controller making a statinc binding between node and controller ID unusable.
Thanks to everyone had the patience to read the whole post, and even more thanks to anyone will suggest some ideas to solve this.
ps. sorry for my english which is far from perfect, but I hope to be at least understandable.
