I have one RB1100 running in a big hostel where each floor has one access point connected to a different ethernet port.
We are using the same SSID in all the floors so I want to write a script to monitor the ethernet ports and identify if one of the access points is down.
I would like to know if one of the ports does not have any activity after 4 hours so I can assume that this access point is down, how can I do it? Is it possible to write such script? Do you know a better solution?
The problem is that the access points are using a different range of IP for the local management so I cannot ping them (afaik).
Maybe is better to ask the router to notify me when the status of one ethernet port changes?
Port status change could be still on even the ap stops responding. You can connect the core device to the same network like APs so it will have access or set routing on the way.
I changed the IP of the access points to the range of the router and activated netwatch but is not a good solution because some access points are answering the pings but the wifi is not working on them so what I actually need is to verify in the router that each ethernet port has activity within some specific time period (like 3 hours).
Is this possible? If so, how can I do it?
Thanks!!
Wouldn’t be better to use APs that will not be failing regularly? Anyway, you can reset port statistics and check after some time if it has risen. Or save statistics values to variable and compare after some time.