NaGios

back to http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Sasecurity

Last step on the wrt project before field test I have been using Nagios along with Mrtg to monitor the mesh. I currently have suse 9.0 load on a small 486 computer at the main gateway. Once you are given an IP address on the inside of the mesh you can ping and monitor each repeater or node by it's wiana IP. I load the SNMP software provided through wiana web admin page on each node and then keep track of bandwidth using Mrtg. Then I use nagios to monitor each nodes availability, uptime, services, cpu, etc. The nagios box pages me and e-mails me when one becomes unavailable. I currently use ssh and VNC to remotely view my nagios box across the internet but you can access it's web page directly from the internet with a little more setup, just to lazy to do it :O).

Wes, I am very interested in what you are doing with Nagios. I am attempting to setup some network management/monitoring and am considering Nagios…but, I do not yet understand how my “management station” can monitor the entire mesh without a route to the 1.x.x.x SubNet of the mesh. Are you doing this over the internet? We have a need to be able to have one centralized network management center to monitor numerous small “mesh” networks.

Tom very good question, I wanted an IP address like the wiana ip that I could ping and use for monitoring across the mesh. I have a nagios box setup to pull statistics and notify me when a node goes down. I do this by using the IP assigned by WiaNa and it can be seen "or routed to" from any location on the mesh.

I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that you're just using WDS to transparently bridge a meshAP, so that from the client perspective they are logically associating with the meshAP, not the wrt. Under those circumstances I'm not sure why a 1.x.x.x address for the wrt is of any value. I would like to thank everyone for the help with the ping scrip, it works like a charm. I have one last thing I would like to do before do some field test. I would like to assign the linksys router an IP like in WiaNa, it looks like a class A IP address. I can't figure out how to assign a class A to the linksys and get it seen across the mess like a regular LW repeater. I know I just need to set the project down and walk away for the weekend and come back to it on Monday, then it would probably come to me but I would like to get it mounted into my rootanna this weekend. So if anybody could help nudge me through this development block I would appreciate it.