With the continuous development of the Internet, the mobile Internet era has been purchased, and the application of mobile terminals has become more and more popular. In order to provide better mobile Internet access services, major enterprises have established their own mobile access stations. Facing the ever-expanding enterprise mobile network, how to effectively manage the wireless microwave equipment in the mobile network to support and guarantee the enterprise's wireless business is a difficult problem faced by all mobile network providers. It is an urgent desire of enterprises to expect a set of integrated network management software to uniformly manage the wireless control equipment AC, wireless access equipment AP, and all connected terminal equipment including mobile terminals and PCs in the enterprise mobile network.

Network management requirements for wireless networks

The network management software uniformly manages the wireless control equipment (AC), a large number of wireless access equipment (AP) and several access terminals in the project;
It can automatically discover AC devices, automatically search for APs, and identify access terminals;
Based on the topology, the APs connected to the AC and the access terminals connected to the APs are displayed to reflect the device affiliation;
Monitor the status of AC, AP, and terminal equipment and collect equipment performance data, including traffic, channel, transmit power, etc.;
With equipment business configuration function;
Receive traps and logs sent by the device to discover the device failure in time, and notify the alarm as soon as possible;
Multi-level authority management;
Generate rich statistical reports;

Zhihe ICT Wireless Microwave Network Management Solution

The wireless/microwave equipment network management software is a network management software system developed based on the Zhihe network management platform SugarNMS for wireless control equipment, wireless access equipment, wireless terminals, and microwave equipment. The user's wireless microwave equipment can be monitored and managed from various aspects, including equipment availability, equipment performance, traffic management and business analysis. The network devices supported by the device management system of the wireless/microwave device network management software include SNMP-enabled wireless control devices, wireless bridge devices, and various types of switches, routers, firewalls, and VoIP gateway devices. The wireless microwave network management solution based on the network management software can perfectly meet the needs of enterprises for wireless and network management.

Functions of wireless/microwave equipment network management software

Automatically discover AC devices, identify the APs connected to the AC and access terminal devices and automatically discover the link relationship between wireless switches, routers, and computers; fat AP devices can also be automatically discovered in fat AP mode;
Automatically scan and discover wireless devices, manufacturer models and device network port diagrams in the entire network;
Manage device ports, bandwidth, throughput, traffic, power, packet loss rate, error packets, channels, operating status, etc.; Graphically monitor network link failures, traffic, and network data;
Support device management and configuration functions;
The network management system provides voice, remote voice, mail, script and other methods to issue alarms in time;
The topology view supports the real-time display of fault data and new energy data, as well as map-based navigation management and topology map background replacement;

Features of Zhihe Network Management Platform Wireless Microwave Solution

One-click intelligent network management

Users only need to enter the IP range, and SugarNMS automatically completes the following operations in one go: adopting multiple physical link algorithms to automatically discover ACs, APs, terminals, wireless switches, device manufacturer models, detect device resources, discover device affiliations, and generate Equipment panel diagram, automatic operation of monitoring tasks, automatic equipment performance data, and automatic presentation of monitoring results to users. Truly one-click operation can easily manage the entire network.

Intelligent discovery of device affiliation

SugarNMS supports a unique wireless device discovery protocol, which can intelligently discover and analyze the affiliation between ACs, APs, and terminal devices, and display the topology view in a graphical topology mode, including device view and terminal view.

Comprehensive network management

SugarNMS wireless microwave network management is a set of comprehensive network management, which can manage wireless (including fat AP and thin AP), microwave, commercial network equipment and servers at the same time. Avoid deploying multiple sets of network management software on the same network.

Rich business configuration functions

The platform supports the configuration of AP monitoring mode, system information configuration, interface configuration, capacity information, load balancing configuration, server configuration, user access control, and SSID configuration for AC devices; system information configuration, interface configuration, terminal configuration, AP configuration for AP devices Service VLAN configuration.

Equipment and fault extension functions

For new device types and unknown device types, new types of AP devices may be added to the project. At this time, users do not need to develop and program, and can use the GUI strategy extension interface provided by the system to complete the support for new devices. The system provides: device types, panel diagram modules, device resources, fault monitoring indicators, performance monitoring indicators, and expansion strategies for TRAP strategies.

Implementation of Wireless Microwave Network Management Solution

Intelligent search for wireless devices

SugarNMS Zhihe network management platform provides four ways to discover topology according to IP range, network range, route search and roaming discovery. The supported device discovery protocols include SNMP and Ping. During the discovery process, the AC can be automatically searched, and the device type and manufacturer model can be identified. Then, according to the relationship between the AC and the AP, the AP is automatically searched. Finally, the corresponding relationship between the AP and the terminal can automatically search out the terminal device. At the same time, it can also search for other devices in the network, such as microwave devices, commonly used switch devices, etc.

Network topology display

Manage the entire network by region, region, and hierarchy across device types based entirely on a graphical interface. Display the device affiliation in detail in each management area or level, support the map navigation mode for microwave devices to display the physical location of the device, and automatically match the device panel diagram. The latest status information of the device is displayed in real time with device icons of different colors in the topology.

Manage connected devices

The platform automatically searches and manages the connected devices of AC equipment and the connected terminals of AP equipment through intelligent technology. It is displayed in the form of topology graph and list. At the same time, it reflects the real-time status of the equipment.

Device panel diagram

SugarNMS supports the management of microwave equipment in the form of a real panel diagram of the equipment, and displays the latest status of resources such as ports, fans, power supplies, and CPUs in real time in the device panel diagram. It also supports editing the device logic panel diagram to display device resources.

fault management

The software actively polls the online status of ACs, APs, and terminal devices. Alarms can be generated when the traffic of the device exceeds the standard, the power is too large, the CPU load, the memory load, the Radius authentication server is unreachable/unavailable/unable to connect, and the number of access terminals is too large. At the same time, the trap and Syslog and other alarm information software actively sent by the device are also acceptable.

Fault collection: SugarNMS has an active fault monitoring function, which can summarize the scattered status information into the current working status from numerous events and statuses, and generate alarms.
Fault optimization: including event filtering mechanism, fault event reporting mechanism, fault event presentation filtering, fault event storage filtering, fault event confirmation and other processing mechanisms to effectively avoid false positives and false negatives.
Fault location: It can realize fast fault location, locate the source equipment of the fault in one step, handle the fault in time, and effectively prevent the fault from happening.
Fault handling: By setting the fault valve value, the notification mechanism can be triggered in advance before the fault really comes. And support three-level gradual warning. After the fault disappears, the system can automatically detect the previous fault and automatically clear the alarm.
Fault notification: The fault can be notified through the interface color, alarm list, sound, SMS, Email, etc. The alarm can be traced up step by step, and the fault display can be organized according to the management habits from global → network → equipment → equipment resources.

Manage configuration

asset Management

The system can input IT asset information individually and in batches, including equipment number, equipment type, equipment manufacturer, equipment model, user, responsible person, purchase time and other information. Supports the statistics and management of network IT assets according to multi-dimensional conditions such as the department to which the device belongs, the management network, device type, and IT asset information.

performance management

Real-time collection of AC and AP port traffic, bandwidth, packet loss rate; AC CPU load, memory usage; AP transmit power, channel value, SSID, system response time and other performance data. Display performance indicators through graphs, trend graphs, etc. You can view changes in performance indicators by day, week, month, or any time period.

Statistical report

SugarNMS network management has a powerful report management function, which can generate real-time and historical reports based on days, weeks, months and any starting and ending time periods. Reports include real-time performance/fault report, performance/fault trend report, performance/fault statistical report, TOP N reports and many other types, as well as various forms of expression such as curve graphs, bar graphs, area graphs, pie graphs, positive and negative graphs, etc. For statistical charts, export and print functions are supported for backup and comparison viewing.

Management Implementation Scheme for Wireless Microwave Equipment Based on Network Management