Hi Folks,
My topic seemed to be deleted somehow, so I'll try again.
So many questions... We run a network primary with the PMP 450i AP's & SM's.
I guess I'll just list out what I'm hoping to see in cnMaestro and on the PMP 450i stuff. It's mostly related to cnMaestro, but let me know if some of this should be posted in a different forum. If it's something already supported, I'd appreciate to be pointed in the right direction. This list is a few months old, so some items may reflect that. Thanks in advance!
Item ID | Feature | Entity | Notes | Response/Q&A |
1 | cnMaestro VM Appliance for Microsoft Hyper-V environment | cnMaestro | Workaround can be performed to convert appliance to Hyper-V, but Hyper-v Integration services don't work properly and errors are constantly thrown on the hypervisor while the VM is running. | CN: We are planning to support a Hyper-V option in cnMaestro 1.8 (towards end-2017). |
2 | Mute Radio TX | AP/cnMaestro | To disable an AP transmitter |
CN: Please provide more information on the use case for this. OP: Tower work where the AP would need to be muted. Interference troubleshooting – being able to mute the transmitting AP to listen for interferer. This is not a mission critical feature request, perhaps doesn’t need to be added. Thoughts? Suggestions? |
3 | Suspend Subscriber | SM/cnMaestro | Seasonal, disconnect, nonpay, etc. No current option to do this when SM goes offline before sending a job |
CN: Is the request to push configuration when the devices come back on-line? OP: Essentially , yes until a profiles solution is available. Currently, we’ve disabled subscribers by turning the SM’s LAN network interface off, essentially turning off connectivity between the SM and the subscriber device. We were curious if a feature could be that the SM registers and is remotely manageable but only managed network traffic is available. I think we tried QoS at 0 and that also didn’t work for our application. |
4 | Historical MIMO Reporting | AP/cnMaestro | CN: Is this with dashboards or graphical reports (planned release for latter in 1.7.x)? Also, what MIMO statistics are priority? OP: If there is an update coming in 1.7.x then we can wait for that. We’re trying to be able to assess the capacity and performance of the AP and SMs attached so we know when we need to trigger a bandwidth increase to continue to support subscriber bandwidth. Subscribers in MIMO-B increase AP throughput capacity. When is an AP considered at capacity in terms of frame utilization with a 2.5ms frame period and bandwidth 75/25? That’s essentially what we are trying to assess, taking into account the frame utilization, frame period, downlink data spilt, and contention slots. Is frame utilization of 70% too high or the point where we’d need to consider taking steps to address the capacity? It would be interesting to get some sort of alert about capacity because one of these parameters were exceeded and the corrective action to take. |
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5 | Historical Throughput Reporting | AP/cnMaestro | CN: This is currently present for a week, but we will be extending that soon as part of a Pro package. | |
6 | Historical Frame Utilization Reporting | AP/cnMaestro | CN: This is also present for a week and embedded in the Throughput graph. Over the next couple months we will completely redesign the statistics pages to make the data more accessible. | |
7 | GPS status | CMM/cnMaestro | OP: Will CMM monitoring be added to Maestro at some point? | |
8 | GPS status | AP/cnMaestro | CN: General GPS status is present in the Statistics >Details pages. Is more information needed? OP: Not seeing the Statistics -> Details page where GPS is present but I think this is alright with the CMM tracking and controlling sync. |
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9 | More users | cnMaestro | We have teams of Sales, Customer Service, NOC, and Engineers who ideally will all have unique accounts. | CN: The current count is at 10 users per account. This will be extended in the future as part of a Pro package. |
10 | Km to Miles change | cnMaestro | CN: We will add an option to configure this in global settings. | |
11 | Historical Bandwidth Reporting (more than 1 wk) | cnMaestro | CN: Extended analytics storage will become part of a future Pro package (which is expected to start rolling out in the 1.8 time frame) | |
12 | Historical MIMO Reporting (more than 1 wk) | SM/cnMaestro | CN: Same answer as with 11. | |
13 | Temperature in Farhenheit | cnMaestro | CN: We will add an option to configure this in global settings. | |
14 | Granular User Permission levels | cnMaestro | CN: cnMaestro 1.6 (September) supports Super Administrator, Administrator, Operator, and Monitor roles. These are designed around granular permissions, but we will not enable custom Roles (with granular selection) until 1H/2018. | |
15 | Multiple SM Configuration Deployment | SM/cnMaestro |
CN: Can you provide more information on this request? |
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16 | Receive Power SM tracking/reporting | SM/cnMaestro | CN: We need to explore the availability of this… | |
17 | cnMaestro SM Profiles | cnMaestro | The profile concept creates a relationship between the device listing in cnMaestro to the actual device. It would enforce configurations when the device comes online, or throughout its session; such as bandwidth, service enabled state, etc. allowing cnMaestro to be the central place of management and ensuring that SM's have a consistent configuration dictated by the provider. | CN: This is under discussion, but it is a more challenging implementation than Wi-Fi (due to the amount of device- and sector-specific configuration). We don’t have an explicit date on adding a profile concept in addition to templates. |
18 | Allow Local Management of SM in NAT mode when enforcing MVID | SM | When management VLAN is used, a local device can ping the local SM IP (169.254.1.1) but cannot access its webpage. Once the SM disconnects from the AP, the MVID (Management VLAN ID) is no longer applied and the web page is once again reachable. |
CN: Regarding item # 18, Could you please try Release 15.1.1 firmware. SM, when in NAT mode and VLANs are enabled, webpage should be accessible while it is registered or not, using 169.254.1.1. |
19 | In NAT mode, display RF Public Network Interface (Valid only when NAT enabled with public addressing) instead of LAN1 Interface IP Address in cnMaestro | SM/cnMaestro | 169.254.1.1 is shown as the management IP in cnMaestro, which is not helpful for remote management. | CN: We will review this. In Maestro 1.5 OP: It seems SMs in NAT mode now report to Maestro their RF Interface IP. Was this addressed |
20 | RF interface on separate L2 domain than LAN interface | SM | If internal network is cabled improperly, SM receives DHCP assignment from local internal DHCP server rather than DHCP server over RF interface. | CN: Item # 20 is a bug. It would be addressed in a future release. |
21 | Retry queue for configuration jobs | cnMaestro | If we need to disable service for a customer for whatever reason, we're left at running a job to disable the SM's ethernet interface. What happens if the device is offline at that time for whatever reason? The customer can simply get back online at a later date. It's not feasible to check back daily to see if the SM is online to run a job. Profiles in item 17 would solve this also. | CN: We will add this as well, possibly in 1.7.x. OP: Could there also be an alert/alarm set in global settings for configuration jobs that fail? |
I'm sure there's more, but this is what I've got for now.
Thanks,
Brian