L2TP as monitoring tool

[noib]

Hello
I have some access points i want to monitor. So far (with around 50 APs), i have been using the L2TP method: each AP has a L2TP tunnel to a central device (RB1200) with each a different IP, so i can very easily know which one is online, connect to any AP via winbox without having to do any NAT on site, etc. So life is great.

Precision: no customer data is passing through this L2TP; it’s only for monitoring purposes.
My question is: when i will have 200, 500, 1000 AP connected (hopefully), will i run into a problem? i.e. too much bandwith taken on the RB, or whatever limit i don’t think of right now? Is that L2TP way is “good practice”?


Thanks

[jandafields]

@noib

Hello
I have some access points i want to monitor. So far (with around 50 APs), i have been using the L2TP method: each AP has a L2TP tunnel to a central device (RB1200) with each a different IP, so i can very easily know which one is online, connect to any AP via winbox without having to do any NAT on site, etc. So life is great.

Precision: no customer data is passing through this L2TP; it’s only for monitoring purposes.
My question is: when i will have 200, 500, 1000 AP connected (hopefully), will i run into a problem? i.e. too much bandwith taken on the RB, or whatever limit i don’t think of right now? Is that L2TP way is “good practice”?


Thanks

Sure, that is a fine maintenance method. Look at your central device now, with the number of current connections… and approximate future usage based on that. You probably have little or no bandwidth over each connection except when you are acutally doing maintenance… and then not much.

[dboreham]

This will probably work, but to me it sounds very strange and inefficient way to monitor devices.
Typically something like Nagios is used for this.

[jandafields]

@dboreham

This will probably work, but to me it sounds very strange and inefficient way to monitor devices.
Typically something like Nagios is used for this.

nagios won’t help you connect to the devices though.

[dboreham]

@jandafields

@dboreham

This will probably work, but to me it sounds very strange and inefficient way to monitor devices.
Typically something like Nagios is used for this.

nagios won’t help you connect to the devices though.

No, that’s not its job, and there’s nothing in the OP that suggests he needs L2TP to get in contact with the remote devices.

[jandafields]

@dboreham

No, that’s not its job, and there’s nothing in the OP that suggests he needs L2TP to get in contact with the remote devices.

You obviously didn’t read the OP:

… so i can very easily know which one is online, > connect to any AP via winbox without having to do any NAT on site> , etc …