Googling hasn’t got me any answers yet. Has anyone done this? Running cnMaestro X 5.2 in the cloud and could use some help please!
I think you need to use the Edge Controller to be able to manage PTP850 devices in cnMaestro:
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We use the Edge Controller + cnMaestro cloud to manage all of our PTP8X0 radios. It relies heavily on SNMP being set up properly and making sure that all the radios can reach the Edge Controller on your local network… so if you have a routed network, you’ll need to make sure that you have the proper port holes in place.
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Thank you for the quick response Simon! It must be a pain to support all of the wildly different device types in a single application. It has proven difficult for me to use with all of the different applications required. The ptp670 uses snmp to talk to cnMaestro without any extra confusing infrastructure, too bad the 850 cannot.
The PTP670 actually uses the cnMaestro agent and not SNMP. To my knowledge the PTP8X0’s are the only radios that use the Edge Connector service along with SNMP to connect to cnMaestro.
Thats right, I stand corrected. Hardware architecture can’t be that different? Can they add a cnMaestro agent to the 850? Simple snmp collecting in cnMaestro?
FEATURE REQUEST: snmp agent monitoring in cnMaestro cloud for simple monitoring … link Status/throughput/ rssi
So the problem with adding cnMaestro agent to PTP8X0 is that the hardware and software are jointly developed between Cambium and Ceragon. Since Ceragon doesn’t have a need for the cnMaestro agent, this development task would fall entirely on Cambium and it would present a challenge in that there would be a fork in the firmware. Every new release would need to have the agent re-integrated and tested extensively. ALSO, adding the cnMaestro agent takes additional resources to run on the radio and this can cause unexpected issues over time (memory leaks, etc). There’s also a lot of operators that never update their PTP8X0 firmware, they buy it because it’s so stable and so they set and forget… so the safest way to add monitoring features was to go the SNMP → Edge Controller route.
As to monitoring 3rd party SNMP devices via the Edge Controller (or in cnMaestro in general), I’ve been told that this is not going to happen.
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appreciate the reply, and you are clearly more in the loop than I. I do remember a memory leak issue on the ptp670’s because of the cnMaestro agent, glad that got fixed. I didn’t realize that the 850e was just a rebranded Ceragon radio, makes sense after seeing the GUI! Do you know if any snmp collector, such as PRTG, can collect stats? Is there documentation for the OIDs or would you need to look at Ceragon documentation?
All of the PTP8X0 radios MIB’s can be found at the Cambium Downloads portal. There are many SNMP polling applications that can be used to monitor and graph these values. I’d do some searching both within the forum here and online to find software suggestions.