InfiMONITOR NEXT allows the network engineers to monitor the status of the wireless devices and to manage their configurations.
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The section includes two key areas:
The list of devices is displayed in a table with the following columns:
Clicking on a specific device, its card will be opened. This is a standard interface that includes detailed information about a network host:
This section contains the key information about wireless device status. There are the following subsections:
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.
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Management functionality requires network connectivity from wireless devices to the monitoring system port 2121/TCP, please check your firewall rules.
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.
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:
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The list of configurations includes the entire configuration history, displayed as a table with the following columns:
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Select any configuration to view it:
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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.
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Changing the device's configuration includes the following steps:
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.
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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:
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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.
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The monitoring system provides the ability to update the software, both on one and on a group of devices.
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.
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Each file in the repository has the following fields:
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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.
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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.
