[44779] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cabling databases and wireless networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (batz)
Wed Dec 12 16:09:18 2001
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:02:02 -0500 (EST)
From: batz <batsy@vapour.net>
To: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Though I do not have a specific solution for you, your Campus -> Building
-> Floor -> Room hierarchiy will work for managing the actual equipment.
If you want to deal with layer2 and up, (channel, segment, subnet)
I would recommend listing Switch -> VLAN ->Port, and make it
compatible with Router -> Subnet, and for the actual wireless segments,
use GIS information, whereby you enumerate the wireless networks by
B/SSID (if they are wavelans), link that information with your switching
information, and then walk around with a laptop, wireless card, and
a GPS and calculate the range of each access point, and put the
results on a map using GRASS, or HUGO .
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Eric Gauthier wrote:
:Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:18:59 -0500
:From: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
:To: nanog@merit.edu
:Subject: Cabling databases and wireless networks
:
:
:Hello,
:
:The institution that I work for is rolling out wireless services on our
:campus which spans about a 10x10 block area. We currently have a pretty
:robust cable management database for tracking and relating our wired runs,
:switch ports, subnets, and physical rooms. We're trying now to figure out
:how to handle and document our wireless deployments with the same type
:of information and relationships.
:
:The problem that I see is that our database is structured around a
:relationship hierarchy of Campus -> Building -> Floor -> Room, where each
:item is a sub category of the one before it with no knowledge of adjacencies.
:For example, the database might know that room 300 and room 301 are both on
:the 3rd floor, but it doesn't understand if they are next to each other
:nor if room 401 is above 301. This seems like it will become more and
:more important since, with wireless gear, we're looking at coverage
:areas instead of lit wall outlets.
:
:Has anyone else tackled this yet or is there any good software out
:there to track this?
:
:Thanks
:
:Eric :)
:
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