So who out there has switched from Prizm?
Thoughts & observations?
Pros/Cons?
We are waiting for WM3 to evaluate, but i think we are going to upgrade…
Any idea on a date for WM3? We’re looking to upgrade as well.
Its announced for Novembrer/2010
Yeah I had found that too, just didn’t now if there was any more info on specifically when.
If you still need BAM, you will still have to run this separately as OPWM doesn’t support or integrate. That being said though, RADIUS will be supported for Canopy in v11 which hopefully should be out very soon… so there really won’t be a need for BAM. Also, if you have any Canopy Lite using Floating Licenses these also won’t be supported in OPWM so you will either have to keep your PRIZM installation or uprade your Lite SMs with a fixed license.
Oh, RADIUS support in Canopy would be great. We don’t currently use BAM but have been wanting to implement authentication but just haven’t yet because of the costs.
Where did you hear about Canopy v11?
I heard this from one of Motorola’s Technical Rescources. Supposedly it was slated for release at the end of November, but I’ve learned based on past experiences to take that release date with ‘a grain of salt’. I was able to obtain an intial list of supported RADIUS attributes, this may change or not be 100% accurate so I wouldn’t rely on it. Doesn’t look like there’s much for accounting features yet:
# -- text --
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# Motorola Canopy attributes.
#
# NOT included in the main dictionaries because of conflicts
# with Ascend attributes.
#
# $Id$
#
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VENDOR Motorola 161
BEGIN-VENDOR Motorola
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-Test 100 string
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VSA 20 tlv
BEGIN-TLV Canopy-VSA
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-LPULCIR 1 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-LPDLCIR 2 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-HPULCIR 3 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-HPDLCIR 4 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-HPENABLE 5 byte
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-ULBR 6 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-ULBL 7 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-DLBR 8 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-DLBL 9 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-LPULCHPRI 10 byte
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-LPDLCHPRI 11 byte
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-HPULCHPRI 12 byte
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-HPDLCHPRI 13 byte
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLLEARNEN 14 byte
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLFRAMES 15 byte
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLIDSET1 16 string # 128 octets
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLIDSET2 17 string # 128 octets
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLIDSET3 18 string # 128 octets
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLIDSET4 19 string # 128 octets
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLAGETO 20 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLIGVID 21 short
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLMGVID 22 short
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-VLSMMGPASS 23 short
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-DLBCASTCIR 24 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-DLBCASTMIR 25 integer
ATTRIBUTE Canopy-ACCESSLEVEL 50 byte
VALUE Canopy-HPENABLE Disable 0
VALUE Canopy-HPENABLE Enable 1
VALUE Canopy-VLLEARNEN Disable 0
VALUE Canopy-VLLEARNEN Enable 1
VALUE Canopy-VLFRAMES All 0
VALUE Canopy-VLFRAMES Tagged 1
VALUE Canopy-VLFRAMES Untagged 2
VALUE Canopy-VLSMMGPASS Enable 0
VALUE Canopy-VLSMMGPASS Disable 1
VALUE Canopy-ACCESSLEVEL GUEST 0
VALUE Canopy-ACCESSLEVEL TECH 1
VALUE Canopy-ACCESSLEVEL INSTALL 2
VALUE Canopy-ACCESSLEVEL ADMIN 3
END-TLV Canopy-VSA
END-VENDOR Motorola
Great, now I’ve got my hopes up and will be feverishly checking the software updates site until it is out. 
I pretty anxious as well… been waiting for RADIUS support for a while. Hopefully the information that I was given is accurate and we can start testing before year end.
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