On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:21:54 +0200 Sigurd Mytting sigurd@mytting.no wrote:
I will be deploying about 100 mobile routers in cars the next six months, they will be offline whenever the car is moving and out of cellular coverage and when the car is not in use by our roadside people. These routers will be in a closed VPN/APN from our teleprovider so I have full access and controll whenever they are online.
I'm wondering how to add these to NAV; I really don't care if they are down and preferably they should not show up as such under "Status". I would like statistics whenever they are online (not to mention the mac-adresses connected, possibly also a few other more specialized metrics like cell signal and so on).
Anyone having any pointers to how I should manage them in NAV?
NAV was never designed with such a scenario in mind. Uptime is king :)
Currently, I think your best option may be to place your mobile routers on maintenance in NAV until the next millennia or so.
NAV will hold back alerts from these routers while they are on maintenance, but will still try to poll them. You will, however, find an excess of active alerts on the status page, whenver you look at it. All the routers will be reported as "on maintenance". They may also be reported as not responding to SNMP while they are offline, but the alerts will only show in the status page - no e-mails, SMS-es or instant messages will be sent.
The active maintenance task may also clutter your maintenance schedule calendar.