InfiMONITOR NEXT allows the network engineers to monitor the status of the wireless devices and to manage their configurations.
The section includes two key areas:
The list of devices is displayed in a table with the following columns:
Each device is presented by its profile contains the whole information about device. There are following section in profile:
The "Status" section consists of several parts:
The status of device and its wireless link.
Network interfaces statistics.
General information.
There is special section includes both the current and remote device. This section presents characteristics of wireless link in downstream and upstream.
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Management functionality requires network connectivity from wireless devices to the monitoring system port 2121/TCP, please check your firewall rules.
Management tools are presented in the "Maintenance" section of device's profile.
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The configuration is automatically loaded for each device added to InfiMONITOR NEXT. If the device's configuration has been changed, it will be reloaded, but the previous configuration won't 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. |
To view the device configurations list, click on the "Manage" button in the "Configuration" row:
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 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 by clicking "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.
Configuration applying procedure eliminates the risk of loss of communication with the device due to configuration errors or other failures. For details, see the Description and operational principles. |
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 "Create job" button. Same to the configuration update jobs, you can run the update immediately or schedule it for a later time.
