Discovering the devices/network
Once WiFi Manager is installed, it automatically discovers the network
devices as Access Points, Mobile
units, routers, switches, wireless switches and gateways. Discovery
of these devices is enabled via inputs from both wired and wireless side.
These include techniques like SNMP, Http, Telnet, CLI
and AP scanning. Initially, the auto discovery
is enabled only for devices in the same subnet. To add devices of different
subnet, you can use the add network option for adding an entire network,
or add device option for adding individual devices or add a range of devices
through the web client. The options to add a network, add a device and
adding a range of devices are shown in the following steps:
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How to
add a device
Having installed the software in your WLAN, you need to
specify the devices like Access Points, routers,
Switches, Mobile Units or the gateways for discovery.
Remember to enable the category of devices you want to discover in the initialization wizard of WiFi Manager.
To add a device, follow the procedure given below:
Procedure:
- Select Admin tab
- Choose the “Add Device” option.
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Fill in the device details:
- IP
Address : e.g.: 111.122.111.2
- Netmask : e.g.:255.255.255.0
- SNMP port:
161 (assigned for SNMP)
- Read Community: public/private
- Write Community: public/private
- Click on the Discover button to to add the device.
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How to add a range
of devices
You may want to add a range of devices into your network
than just a single devices. It may be a tedious process for you to add
devices one by one into the network. In such a case you may use the Add
a range of devices option, where you just have to specify the starting
IP and the last IP address of the devices in that range and it gets added
to the respective network.
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Add a network into
the system
To add a network, you can use the Add Network option in the Inventory
Tab of the webclient. This saves you the time and effort of actually adding
individual devices in a network one by one. The Add Network option permits
you to add an entire Network into the software to be discovered or monitored.
You can check and view the added network from the Inventory Tab> Networks
option.
The parameters you need to fill in to add a network are as follows:
- Network Address: This indicates the IP address of
a particular Network, e.g.: 111.12.1.0 may be a network address and any
IP address of a device with this IP for e.g.: 111.12.1. 30 will be added
under this network.
- Netmask : 255.255.255.0
- SNMP read /write properties: specify Public/private.
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How to import from CSV files
When you are required to add devices in large numbers, belonging to
different networks,it can be done either by adding devices individually
or by adding these networks. But while the first method, i.e, adding devices
individually is a tedious process if the numbers are huge, the second
method will subsequently lead into adding unwanted devices in the networks
for discovery.In such cases, you can use the Import from CSV file option.
To be able to use the CSV import option, it is important to follow the
format given below while maintaining a CSV file.You can also specify the
Business View hierarchy using this
file which will automate the creation of corresponding maps and symbols.
CLIPROTOCOL,CLIUSERNAME,CLIPASSWORD,CLIENABLEPASSWORD,READCOMMUNITY,WRITECOMMUNITY,IPADDRESS,NETMASK
telnet,admin,admin,admin,public,public,192.168.111.16,255.255.255.0
telnet,user,password,admin,private,private,192.168.111.89,255.255.247.0 |
Note the following things
while creating the CSV file:
- Header for the CSV file is mandatory.
- The first eight columns (IPADDRESS, NETMASK, CLIPROTOCOL,
CLIUSERNAME, CLIPASSWORD, CLIENABLEPASSWORD, READCOMMUNITY, WRITECOMMUNITY)
are mandatory
- The other columns like company,country,tier,site
are used for the Business view creation.The business view tree will be
created
hierarchically with the above column values.
- The number of entries in the header and the number
of entries in each line should match.If a value is not available say for
eg for a device you do not have a enablepassword leave it empty.
- Also as the delimiter is "," for a csv
file so the column value cannot contain commas,if so they will be considered
as an extra column and there will be a mismatch.
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