Network Management Ideas
Background / Problem
- Most network management tools don't deliver real value, most fall back to basic up down monitoring and being used in a reactive way.
- Reactive - once a device is down or someone complain we use network monitor to trouble shoot.
Ideas
- Measure more and make it easy to add multiple devices of same type.
- Utilization on links.
- Errors on links with alarming.
- Radio link rf interference and signal strength
- Automate detection of main links, e.g. CDP and alarming on faults with redundancy.
- Else failure of a redundant link will only be visible when primary also fails.
- Power - UPS status
- Environment, temperature
- Security, eg. movement or cabinet access.
- Track more static info.
- Assest register integration, e.g. serial numbers, could be retrieved via snmp from some devices.
- Location, GPS coordinates, and for Radio links direction, allow display of Google Maps overlay.
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