Given how unmanageable custom MIB pollers are for collecting all the information I need from my WLCs, I haven't bothered to create the several hundred I would like. What we really need is support in the Orion Wireless Monitor for Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers to provide a useful GUI to summarize all the useful wireless information that other people are able to collect from their fat access points.
Here is the only custom MIB poller that I'm using for my WLCs. It will show you the number of wireless clients that are connected to the WLC.
1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.1.1.38
aLTeReGo:Given how unmanageable custom MIB pollers are for collecting all the information I need from my WLCs
This should get a lot better with Orion 9. And we'll support MIB Tables, which should open up other possible monitoring.
denny.lecompte:This should get a lot better with Orion 9. And we'll support MIB Tables, which should open up other possible monitoring.
Agreed, this is much better in v9.0 but you need to understand that clients that are using Wireless LAN Controllers tend to be large organizations with hundreds or even thousands of access points. They moved away from fat access points because thin APs are much easier to deploy and manage. I have several wireless LAN controllers each with 150 AP's connected. Let's say I wanted to collect information from 5 OIDs per AP connected to the WLC. That's 750 custom MIB pollers per WLC. That's quite a bit of administrative overhead, and the layout of that information is no where near as easy to understand or customize as it is un the Orion Wireless Monitor add-on.
Given the fact that large organizations are the ones that tend to be moving in the direction of thin access points, Solarwinds should extend support in the Wireless Monitor Add-on for these devices and restructure the pricing for the module to a per-AP model to recover development and support costs.
aLTeReGo:Given how unmanageable custom MIB pollers are for collecting all the information I need from my WLCs, I haven't bothered to create the several hundred I would like. What we really need is support in the Orion Wireless Monitor for Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers to provide a useful GUI to summarize all the useful wireless information that other people are able to collect from their fat access points. Here is the only custom MIB poller that I'm using for my WLCs. It will show you the number of wireless clients that are connected to the WLC. 1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.1.1.38
That OID gives me zero all the time even though the WLC shows more than that connected. Unfortunately MIB Walk of this device will not work using the toolset. I get a error that the box isn't responding with the community string yet I'm running this from the Orion poller that SNMP does work to the device. Not sure the issue there.BB
The WLC uses SNMP v2 by default and the SNMP walk tool uses SNMP v1. Go to the WLC GUI interface and "enable" SNMP version 1 and the SNMP walk will work.