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InfiMONITOR NEXT allows the network engineers to monitor the status of the wireless devices and to manage their configurations.

Devices review

Figure - Management section

The section includes two key areas:

  • Devices list - devices and their groups that are in the user's visibility area.
  • Side area for detailed information.

The list of devices is displayed in a table with the following columns:

  • "Device" - the device name.
  • "Status" - current device status.
  • "Family" - family to which this device belongs.
  • "Serial number" - unique serial number assigned to device at production stage.
  • "IP address" - device's IP addresses list.

Device profile

Clicking on a specific device, its card will be opened. This is a standard interface that includes detailed information about a network host:

  • "Status" - the device's operational parameters.
  • "Maintenance" - in this section, a network engineer can manage the device configuration, updating its software and groups.

Status

This section contains the key information about wireless device status. There are the following subsections:

  • Status of device and its wireless links.
  • Network interfaces statistics.
  • General information.

There is the special block where the current and neighbour devices are presented. The block presents the wireless link characteristics in uplink and downlink streams simultaneously.

Status of device and its links

Network infrastructure requirements

Management functionality requires network connectivity from wireless devices to the monitoring system port 2121/TCP, please check your firewall rules.

Configuration management

For each device added to InfiMONITOR NEXT, the configuration is loaded. If the device's configuration has been changed, it will be reloaded, but the previous configuration will not be deleted. Thus, the monitoring system always stores both the current device configuration and its previous versions.

NOTE

Configuration and software management functions are available only for devices monitored via SNMP v3.

Configuration management is performed in the "Maintenance" section of the device profile. To view the device configurations list, click on the "Manage" button:

Figure - Display configuration list

The list of configurations includes the entire configuration history, displayed as a table with the following columns:

  • "Status" - current configuration status, the following values are possible:
    • Draft - draft configuration stored in NEXT and not applied to the device.
    • Success - the configuration was successfully downloaded from the device or applied to it.
    • Error - the applying of the configuration on the device has failed.
  • "Source" - configuration source, the following values are possible:
    • EMS - configuration applied using NEXT.
    • Device - configuration received from the device. Configuration changes were made directly on the device, the monitoring system has detected it and downloaded the updated configuration.
  • "Version from" - configuration date and time:
    • The date and time of its upload to the monitoring system.
    • For the draft, the date and time of the last change.

List of configurations

Select any configuration to view it:

Figure - device configuration

You can compare the two configurations to see how they differ. To do this, in the "Compare" list, select any other configuration.

To highlight changes in the comparison mode, click on the "Show the difference" button.

Configuration changing

Changing the device's configuration includes the following steps:

  1. Selecting the configuration version.
  2. Editing selected configuration.
  3. Creating job - set a task for applying the configuration on the device.
  4. Applying the configuration — the configuration is applied on the device.

Configuration editing

Click "Edit" button in the selected configuration. A draft will be created, with the content identical to the previously selected configuration. Each device may have only the one configuration draft. If you create a new draft the previous will be rewritten.

After editing, you can save a draft without applying it on the device, or create a job to apply it. You may apply any configuration version without editing, just click "Create job" button.

Figure - edit existing configuration

Job creation

When you are ready to apply configuration draft please click "Create job" button.

In the menu, you can schedule the time for applying the configuration, the following options are available:

  • Create job at a given date and time.
  • Create job for the current time.

Figure - job creation

Applying the configuration

At the set time, the configuration will be downloaded to the device. After successful validation, the configuration will be applied and the device will reboot. After rebooting the device, InfiMONITOR NEXT will re-poll it and perform a configuration check. If it was applied correctly, then the job will be marked as completed successfully. Otherwise, the job will fail.

Figure - completed job

Software management

The monitoring system provides the ability to update the software, both on one and on a group of devices.

Upload firmware files

To update the software, it must be previously uploaded into a special storage of the monitoring system. In order to do this, go to the "Management" section and click the "Software" button.

Figure - software files storage

Each file in the repository has the following fields:

  • "Version" - the software version.
  • "Platform" - the hardware platform for which the software is intended. The monitoring system will allow to create an update task using only those files that are suitable for the device selected.
  • "Type" - the software type, MINT or TDMA.
  • "Source" - firmware files can be uploaded to the repository either manually or automatically from the update center (not available at the moment). Here will be displayed the source of the file.
  • "Build date" - date when the software file was built.
  • "Comment" - the monitoring system administrators can leave comments to each file.
Figure - software files list

Software update on one device

The software update is performed via a special update job. In order to do this, go to the "Maintenance" section of the device card. In the "Firmware" line click the "Manage" button. This will open a list of software files suitable for this device.

Figure - firmware files list

Select the software version to be applied to the device, then click the "Activate" button. Same to the configuration update jobs, you can run the update immediately or schedule it for a later time.

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