Hi!
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).
If it matters; we'll be using Cisco hardened 819 routers with an integrated WiFi access point.
Anyone having any pointers to how I should manage them in NAV?
Cheers, -Sigurd
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.
[Morten Brekkevold]
|| 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 :)
Yes it is. But it will drain batteries on our vehicles and probably give me a line of angry people with pitchforks outside my office door ;-)
| Currently, I think your best option may be to place your mobile routers | on maintenance in NAV until the next millennia or so.
They are all in the same location and room, "Car", if I put the room or location on maintenance, will I get the same result as if I put the device on maintenance?
Thanks for your input!
Cheers, -Sigurd
[Sigurd Mytting]
| They are all in the same location and room, "Car", if I put the room or | location on maintenance, will I get the same result as if I put the | device on maintenance?
And, of course, will all future devices registered on this room/location also be on maintenance?
Cheers, -Sigurd
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:17:53 +0200 Sigurd Mytting sigurd@mytting.no wrote:
| Currently, I think your best option may be to place your mobile routers | on maintenance in NAV until the next millennia or so.
They are all in the same location and room, "Car", if I put the room or location on maintenance, will I get the same result as if I put the device on maintenance?
Yes.
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:25:29 +0200 Sigurd Mytting sigurd@mytting.no wrote:
And, of course, will all future devices registered on this room/location also be on maintenance?
I believe so, yes.
[Morten Brekkevold]
|| And, of course, will all future devices registered on this || room/location also be on maintenance?
| I believe so, yes.
Looks like both yes and no in my setup, the status widget will show the device down even if the room is on maintenance, but the status-page won't show it. If I edit maintenance of the room it disapears from the widget as well. Seems to be valid for all devices I put into a room already on maintenance.
Does this make sense?
Cheers, -Sigurd
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:59:28 +0200 Sigurd Mytting sigurd@mytting.no wrote:
[Morten Brekkevold]
|| And, of course, will all future devices registered on this || room/location also be on maintenance?
| I believe so, yes.
Looks like both yes and no in my setup, the status widget will show the device down even if the room is on maintenance, but the status-page won't show it. If I edit maintenance of the room it disapears from the widget as well. Seems to be valid for all devices I put into a room already on maintenance.
Does this make sense?
No, but I am only able to confirm some of your findings. Specifically, I am unable to confirm a difference between what the widget and the status page shows.
It seems something went missing when Trond refactored the maintenance engine a year or two back. Now, the maintenance engine seems to active maintenance mode for devices only as the maintenance task status transitions from scheduled to active. It used to re-enforce the maintenance status of active tasks as well.
Would you please file a bug report? I will investigate further...
[Morten Brekkevold]
| Would you please file a bug report? I will investigate further...
Bug #1374384
Cheers, -Sigurd
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