View Full Version : Configuration on a massive scale
Pinion
12-24-2008, 12:53 PM
I am currently exploring a rather large deployment, numbering in the hundreds, possibly the thousands. I need something to keep those radios up to date and be able to configure large groups of radios at the same time.
Many aftermarket OS systems offer such as system, but here's the thing. AirOS comes on the UBNT gear, and flashing new software to hundreds of radios would be a nightmare. Not to mention it would be expensive to buy hundreds of new software packages at $24-$34USD each. Probably be able to negotiate a better rate for that volume of licenses....
Anyway, is there someone that has a system to administer AirOS??? Care to share???? :wink:
Two different things...
"flashing new software to hundreds of radios would be a nightmare"
Most if not all radios from any other manufacture will be shipped with the current software at that time, and recommend you upgrade to the newest. Its no different with UBNT.
"Not to mention it would be expensive to buy hundreds of new software packages at $24-$34USD each. Probably be able to negotiate a better rate for that volume of licenses.... "
That would be between you and the third party software you want to reflash the UBNT radios with. I suspect UBNT will eventually have similar offerings of some third party firmware features in the near future in their AirOS.
"Anyway, is there someone that has a system to administer AirOS??? Care to share????"
As an after thought...you could create a spreadsheet that auto-increments the IP address and save it as a .cfg file, then upload it. Get a sixteen port switch and lots of AC outlet strips.
having hundreds or thousands of clients takes some time...even years...so u will have much time to get experience ;-)
An opportunity for a cottage industry. "Subcontract" out the work to dozens of high school kids.
Pinion
12-25-2008, 09:41 AM
having hundreds or thousands of clients takes some time...even years...so u will have much time to get experience ;-)
We are in negotiations to provide service to a multinational company. This may happen rapidly.
As far as the updating mass radios, I think WHT missed the point. Say I have a system that requires a firmware update AFTER install. Doing this on a large scale would be time consuming manually.
Suppose I want to change channels or power levels on a hundreds of radios, again, time consuming.
Basically, if I need or want to make changes on a large scale, I want to be able to do it easily. Firmware updates, encryption, settings, etc on this scale will be a nightmare without some way to do large groups in a few mouse clicks.
LIGOWAVE has a RCMS......$1000/year
IkarusOS RCMS...........free, but the software would be a pain to load into large volumes of hardware.
DD-WRT........................ still have to load software, don't know if there is a RCMS...
Help?!
OK...Now I understand what you are wanting to do, You want to make large scale post-deployment changes of radios already installed.
I'm thinking you could roll your own scripts that pull data from a database.
Pinion
12-26-2008, 09:09 AM
OK...Now I understand what you are wanting to do, You want to make large scale post-deployment changes of radios already installed.
I'm thinking you could roll your own scripts that pull data from a database.
Looks like I got's to learn scripting then .....
DD-WRT........................ still have to load software, don't know if there is a RCMS...
we''re discussing this point for a while now and i hate to say that we havnt a RCMS right now. but we will in the near future.
we're already offering preflashed EOC-2610 and NS's.
EOC-2610 hardware is terrible however.
Pinion
12-28-2008, 06:33 PM
DD-WRT........................ still have to load software, don't know if there is a RCMS...
we''re discussing this point for a while now and i hate to say that we havnt a RCMS right now. but we will in the near future.
we're already offering preflashed EOC-2610 and NS's
EOC-2610 hardware is terrible however.
Only downside I can see is that a NS2 would set me back about $200 canadian preflashed. :(
Thats almost double what I pay for a stock NS2. :shock:
since u'r not in the EU u wont have to pay the vat so it will be cad167 ;-)
