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scliffe
Aspirant
Sep 22, 2016
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SNMP wlan utilization rate

I'm trying to understand the hrSysWlanUtilizationRate SNMP object. The description in the MIB file says "the field indicates the wlan Utilization Rate based on
calculating station access Time" so I would expect it to vary quite a bit but when I graph it it looks like this:

 

Screen Shot 2016-09-23 at 11.21.14 am.png

 

This is not what I expected so can anyone explain what this field actually is?

 

Thanks,

 

Steve.

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  • RaghuHR's avatar
    RaghuHR
    Nov 16, 2016

    Hi scliffe

     

    We found issue in the driver code and patch is available. Please contact Netgear Support Engineer  to get the patch.

     

    Thanks

    Raghu

10 Replies

  • thcheng's avatar
    thcheng
    NETGEAR Expert
    Sep 28, 2016

    Hi,

     

    Are you using the WAC720 as a standalone or controller mode?

     

    Thanks,

    Thomas

     

    • scliffe's avatar
      scliffe
      Aspirant
      Sep 28, 2016

      No - it's a standalone WNAP320 on the latest firmware.

  • awaghe's avatar
    awaghe
    NETGEAR Expert
    Sep 29, 2016

    Hi scliffe,

     

    The hrSysWlanUtilizationRate SNMP object indicates the percentage of WLAN utilization with respect to number of wireless stations accessing the WLAN and the total time wireless stations accessing the WLAN.

     

    --

    Thanks,

    AWaghe

    • scliffe's avatar
      scliffe
      Aspirant
      Sep 29, 2016

      Thanks awaghe - I'm aware of the description of this object but it doesn't seem to match what it looks like when graphed. It increases gradually over a few hours then drops to zeo and starts again. My Wireless devices are certainly not access the WLAN in that manner.


      Steve.

  • kohdee's avatar
    kohdee
    NETGEAR Expert
    Oct 05, 2016

    Just curious, is that correlating with your AP's uptime? 

    • scliffe's avatar
      scliffe
      Aspirant
      Oct 05, 2016

      A good suggestion, but no. My AP has been up for almost a week and this is occuring regularly 2-3 times/day:

       

      [UDP: [192.168.128.254]:161->[0.0.0.0]:42517]=>[Linux wlan-ap 2.6.23-WNAP320_V3.5.6.0-g0c2ca724 #1 Tue Apr 12 03:19:54 PDT 2016 mips] Up: 6 days, 17:57:42.78

       

      • RaghuHR's avatar
        RaghuHR
        NETGEAR Expert
        Oct 18, 2016

        Can you please tell me the application name that you are running to measure WLAN utilization? 

        When AP fails to fetch values from database this can happen. 

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