NSE feature requests for cnMaestro

[ntox (Anthony)]

Hi folks & Cambium Team

@GaryHansen @TrevorM

We’ve just deployed our first, and not last NSE appliance. Liking it so far. However, it is lacking some needful information within cnMaestro.

Need:
Port/uplink status page or tab. We only see “active port”, no info.

Need port details, link speed, tx/rx, dropped packets, etc. ARP table/clients?

Add a new “uplinks/Ports” tab within the Network section of cnMaestro for NSE?

Here are some examples how Meraki displays:

Be nice to also have WAN status for connectivity. [perhaps are of “X” license"]

[TrevorM]

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for the feedback and glad you like it! We do plan to add more stats along the lines you mentioned.

Meanwhile there are debug commands to see some of this information, which you can access from Tools-> Remote CLI
show arp
and
show interface brief
may be useful

The clients table under Clients → Local has extensive data for each client in the network, including fingerprinting to determine device type.

You can see historical WAN up / down status and usage under Networks → WAN

[ntox (Anthony)]

Thanks for fast reply. I had actually dove into the web CLI shortly after I had posted this and was able to pull the stats info on interfaces. Very nice that cambium provides this, along with full config viewer.

Kindly keep us all in the loop with some transparency on next release of what to expect, or a nice feature/change log at next release.

Cheers.

[TrevorM]

Happy to help. Each release on the cnMaestro software update page has a link next to it for release notes with details on new features / fixes / known issues

[Simon_King]

You can also view the index of cnMaestro release notes here:

https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/tags/c/products/cnmaestro/37/release-notes?order=created

[micampo]

Hello

When will cnmaestro on-premise 5.2.2 be available?

When will cnmaestro on-premise support the NSE3000?

Thank you

[micampo]

test and ping

I think this is fantastic.

You can clearly see the quality of the WAN1 and WAN2 services so you can make contractual decisions.

[TrevorM]

Hi micampo

We are gauging customer interest for on-premises support for the NSE, but it is not currently on our committed roadmap.

[ntox (Anthony)]

Any future plans to add throughput testing on the WAN interfaces? Ability for us to quickly “troubleshoot” or prove out WAN bandwidth on the circuit? Have it test to Cambium hosted cnMaestro / Dashboard.

[TrevorM]

There is a periodic speed test you can enable under WAN → WAN Configurations → WAN Speed Test. You can then view the results on the cnMaestro NSE device dashboard under Network → WAN. If you have a connection with metered data transfer though keep in mind that you could quickly use a lot of data. The test runs every hour by default, so on a 1Gbps connection if each run of the test lasts 10 seconds you’d use up 1Gb x 10 x 24 x 30 / 8 = 900GB every month.

Alternatively there is a debug command to run an on-demand speed test. Go to your NSE dashboard → Tools → Remote CLI and run the “speedtest” command. The result of this test is the aggregate bandwidth across all active WAN links. Due to the way it works, on the NSE3000 this may underestimate the speed of higher speed link (~1Gbps).