(ASCEND) Re: [Oz-ISP] How hard can it be to get data from a Max 4060?

[Ross Wheeler <ross@home.albury.net.au>]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Mark Newton wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 05:58:17PM +1000, Ross Wheeler wrote:
> 
>  > > Silly question: why don't you just use the radius detail records
>  > > to bill your isdn clients, the same way you bill your modem ones?
>  > 
>  > Simple. I only get detail at the end of each call. I want to monitor this
>  > link /in near real time/ so I can ensure it's not getting over-subscribed.
>  > It's a link to one of our small remote POPs, and I need to make sure it's
>  > not getting flogged! (and so I can plan capacity upgrades before they are
>  > too late)
>  
> MRTG or Cricket can help you with this, surely?  You know, of course,
> that SNMP isn't the only way these tools can grab their stats, don't
> you?

Neither MRTG nor Cricket intuitivly "know" how to do this, and I'd need to
write something to do it.

I'm happy to write an expect script and use telnet, but I can't see
anything in the Max to extract the current byte counters for in
in-progress 128K MPP call (without dropping the current calls).

I'm CERTAIN it can be done, which is why I'm asking for assistance from
some people who have almost certainly done it themselves. It's not /that/
wierd a request or desire. I'm certainly NOT the first person on the
planet to want to know it! But I've got to the point of admitting defeat,
I've spent a couple of days wrestling with the max, and the LACK of
information on it. I'm ready to swap /ALL/ my max boxes for equivalent
Tigris boxes, which do it nicely, easily, simply, and if I ask Ericcson
(or their representatives in this country), I actually get some straight
answers....

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