Iwisp seems to have been abandoned
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:52 am
The Iwisp software for monitoring devices seems to have been abandoned. Last update was more than a year ago. Web page has mostly been offline.
I think they had a good initial idea in having software that a typical WISP could use to monitor both wireless and switching routing equipment for multiple vendors. I know that other products do exist but most are geared towards switching or servers and have poor support for wireless devices. They may be able to monitor them but to try to get a functional dashboard showing signal strengths and other useful data is difficult.
Where I see that they went wrong in my opinion was in not supporting SNMP as it would have allowed monitoring of many more manufactures equipment. They also tried to add too many features such as CRM to try to keep up with what UBNT was deploying. The UBNT products are very good but still only support UBNT hardware.
I think they had a good initial idea in having software that a typical WISP could use to monitor both wireless and switching routing equipment for multiple vendors. I know that other products do exist but most are geared towards switching or servers and have poor support for wireless devices. They may be able to monitor them but to try to get a functional dashboard showing signal strengths and other useful data is difficult.
Where I see that they went wrong in my opinion was in not supporting SNMP as it would have allowed monitoring of many more manufactures equipment. They also tried to add too many features such as CRM to try to keep up with what UBNT was deploying. The UBNT products are very good but still only support UBNT hardware.