Afar AR-24010E, Operator'S Manual

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pulsAR radio Operator's Manual
WhatsUp Gold (Ipswitch Inc)
http://www.ipswitch.com/
USD 800 (approx)
SNMPc (Castle Rock Computing, Inc)
http://www.castlerock.com/
USD 900 to USD 2700 (approx, depending on options)
OpenView (Hewlett-Packard)
http://www.openview.hp.com/
USD 3,000 to USD 10,000
The OpenView product line has been revamped; HP is now positioning it not as a turnkey
software product, but as a custom adapted application to be bought through a value-added
implementation partner.
Multi-Router Traffic Graphing
http://www.mrtg.org/
This is a free, open-source software, capacity planning tool.
5.2.5 pulsAR radio Management Information Base (MIB)
The pulsAR radio implements only the core MIB-II. A management station will see three interfaces in
the interfaces group :
1 - Bridge
2 - Ethernet
3 - Radio
The first of these represents the attachment of the SNMP agent to the bridged network. Only IP traffic
seen by the embedded host is counted.
The ethernet device ( ifIndex=2 ) represents the traffic passing through the radio's ethernet port. This is
what should be tracked by MRTG.
The third device represents the wireless transceiver. If will appear as down if the radio does not have
a working link to its peer. This is useful for confirming the loss of a link. The traffic counts show all
packets to and from the radio, including handshaking between the two radios radios.
5.3 UDP Command and Data Interface
5.3.1 Purpose
The pulsAR radio firmware includes an optional command/data interface based on the UDP/IP
protocol. This interface can be used for two purposes:
1. As a command interface allowing radio text commands and replies to be encapsulated in UDP/IP
packets. This is useful when you want to configure the radio from a program running on an
external computer
2. To send and receive vital packets which the radio classifies as the highest priority.
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