monitoring autonomous ap's in different buildings

[jzientek83]

Hi,

We currently have six dorms that have at least six cisco aps in each.

They are all on different networks, so they are all autonomous.

How can we monitor them for network traffic?

It would be great to centralize this and have specific data for each ap (traffic, sites visited, etc.)

We do Not have a vm server on site at this time.

We are a school, so at this time cost is a major concern.

Thank you for any ideas or suggestions,

Jim

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

How can we monitor them for network traffic?

Define "network traffic".

If you want to just monitor how much upload and download each AP does, then the easiest method is to use SNMP to get the input and output data traffic counters.

[jzientek83]

That makes sense on that level.

Thank you very much,

Jim