InfiMONITOR NEXT includes the following features:
The monitoring system system is intended only for monitoring Infinet Wireless devices. Devices from other manufacturers are not supported. |
InfiMONITOR NEXT monitoring system consists of several subsystems, each performing a specific function:
The main InfiMONITOR NEXT subsystem periodically polling the network nodes and obtaining their parameters values.
The subsystem is working constantly. It distributes all the necessary polling in order to perform the entire network polling during a 5 minutes interval, so it prevents peak loads on the wireless network:
The subsystem is designed to create and manage incidents based on the rules set by InfiMONITOR NEXT users.
The incident management subsystem's operation begins after the polling results received through the polling subsystem. This subsystem verifies the match between the rules set and the received values. If the condition specified in a rule is met, an incident is created. The incident management subsystem performs maintenance of each active incident.
The subsystem performs the automatic search and adding of devices. After a device is added manually, the discovery subsystem performs the following:
An important feature of the subsystem is that it performs the search only within a single MINT area. If there are several MINT areas in a wireless network, then at least one device from each area must be added in order to detect the other devices.
The subsystem performs the following functions:
One of the key stage in the process of preparing a device for managing its configurations from InfiMONITOR NEXT. During provisioning unique SSH requisites will be installed to each device, After that the monitoring system will be able to connect to each provisioned device to perform configuration management operations. Provisioning may be done manually or automatically at the device adding stage.
Provisioning is performed via SSH, but you can enable using of Telnet.
This function is available only for provisioned devices.
The monitoring system applies configuration changes made by users. The main advantage of this feature is protection against logical errors in configuration, that may cause connection loss. If applied changes lead to a loss of connection between device and InfiMONITOR NEXT, then the previous configuration version will be restored.
Changing the device configuration includes the following stages:
The subsystem is designed to send notifications to the users of the monitoring system.
A graphical web interface is used for InfiMONITOR NEXT monitoring system management. The Web GUI interacts with all the subsystems.
The Web GUI works properly with the latest versions of the following web browsers:
The recommended minimum screen resolution is 1600×900.
The subsystem provides data storage and quick access to the information for the web GUI and subsequently for the engineers operating InfiMONTOR NEXT.
The license permits using InfiMONITOR NEXT. There are three license types, differ in the validity period and the maximum number of devices for which monitoring will be performed. One license may be installed to only the one monitoring system instance.
License type | Device number | Validity period | Description |
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Free | 30 | unlimited | Free license for full-featured use of InfiMONITOR NEXT for small wireless networks. |
Trial | unlimited | 1 month | A temporary license for the evaluation use of monitoring system. |
Enterprise | defined at ordering | defined at ordering | License for full-featured use of monitoring system for wireless networks of any size. |
All added to InfiMONITOR NEXT devices are divided into the following categories:
In fact InfiMONITOR NEXT performs monitoring of any devices, whether licensed or unlicensed. However, users are provided with monitoring data and management function only for licensed devices. If license limitations on device number will be extended unlicensed devices become licensed and monitoring data for the past period will be available. |
If the maximum device number permitted by license is less than number of being added devices, licenses will be assigned on each device sequentially until license limitation is reached - the rest will be added as unlicensed.
The license must be installed to use InfiMONITOR NEXT, it may be done at installation stage or in the "System configuration" section. Internet access must be provided to workstation used for license installation.
License management is performing in the licensing center.