Gerenciamento de redes sem fio: um cliente SNMP para o OpenWrt

Abstract

As the popularity of wireless networks grows, it’s monitoring and management become essential to maintain quality of the provided wireless Internet service. The SNMP is the de facto standard used in order to achieve this goal but, from the wireless network perspective, it’s use is limited to the network’s infrastructure components and services. The OpenWrt, a flexible operating system, can be used on access points to collect arbitrary data regarding the network and it’s clients and provide it through SNMP. In this context, this work sought to write a software, based on OpenWrt and SNMP, to gather customized data and to deploy a monitoring service that allowed simplified access and elaborated view of data which led to a better network management.