{"id":255,"date":"2004-07-07T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maydanoz.arved.priv.at\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2004-07-07T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T15:00:09","slug":"wireless_lan_so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/07\/07\/wireless_lan_so\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless LAN solution engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The university&#8217;s WLAN currently consists of 60+ Accesspoints. We are planning to double this number to cover whole buildings in the near future. Monitoring is currently done by a shellscript\/MRTG combination that monitors Reachability, Configuration changes, Associations and Traffic.<br \/>\nNow we are evaluating buying a Cisco product called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/products\/sw\/cscowork\/ps3915\/index.html\">Wireless LAN solution engine<\/a> for $$$$.<br \/>\nIt is basically a pentium-machine running an IOS like Operating System with a Web\/JavaApplet Application.<br \/>\nIt has tons of features including statistics of everything and a Radio Manager that monitors the coverage, interferences etc. Of course it also includes Configuration and Firmware management.<br \/>\nUnfortunately I haven&#8217;t found any neutral reviews on the Net. Only Product information and a default password vulnerability earlier this year.<br \/>\nWhat speaks against it: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Handbook consists of 1102 pages.<\/li>\n<li>It requires specific Browers and specific versions of Java Plugins. For Cisco Works, another Network Management Tool we use, I have not found a working combination of Browsers\/Java Plugins that works on FreeBSD.<\/li>\n<li>It needs to be updated with every new Firmware version Cisco releases for its Accesspoints<\/li>\n<li>It requires a lot of effort to use it optimal:\n<ul>\n<li>A LEAP setup needs to be established between the Accesspoints<\/li>\n<li>For every Accesspoint you need to collect data by running running around the covered area with a Laptop<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes the Radio Manager needs to recalculate its data, which requires the WLAN to be shut down<\/li>\n<li>Maps and Sizes of every building and every floor need to be scanned and imported into the WLSE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I tend not to buy it, but I am not sure if this are just my predjudices against closedsource Software. I would be glad to hear a review from anybody who bought this product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The university&#8217;s WLAN currently consists of 60+ Accesspoints. We are planning to double this number to cover whole buildings in the near future. Monitoring is currently done by a shellscript\/MRTG combination that monitors Reachability, Configuration changes, Associations and Traffic. Now we are evaluating buying a Cisco product called Wireless LAN solution engine for $$$$. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/07\/07\/wireless_lan_so\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wireless LAN solution engine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}