Device Monitoring¶
mfusion provides end-to-end monitoring of all managed RansNet devices — SD-WAN gateways, access points, hotspot gateways, and other network appliances — from a single centralised interface. The monitoring stack covers real-time device health, performance trending, wireless RF visibility, traffic analysis, and automated alerting, giving network administrators full operational awareness across distributed fleets.
Navigate to ORCHESTRATOR → Monitoring to access the monitoring features (scheduled reporting lives under the top-level REPORTS menu). Use the [Entity] button in the top-right corner to scope the view to a specific customer or site.
Monitoring Capabilities¶
Real-Time Device Health¶
mfusion continuously polls all managed devices using an agent-based collection model. Each device pushes metrics — uptime, CPU, memory, interface status, WAN IP, firmware version, and cellular signal — to mfusion at configurable intervals. Thresholds are evaluated in real time against trigger conditions; when a threshold is breached, an alert is raised and email notifications are dispatched automatically to all users with access to the affected entity.
Performance Trending¶
Historical metrics are retained per device, enabling administrators to plot performance graphs over time. Trending data informs capacity planning decisions — for example, identifying WAN links that are consistently saturated at peak hours, or devices that are gradually exhausting memory under load.
Wireless RF Visibility¶
For RansNet UAP access points and Wi-Fi-enabled routers, mfusion collects per-AP and per-client RF metrics: signal strength (RSSI), noise floor, SNR, channel utilization, and connection rates. This provides early detection of interference, channel congestion, or clients with degraded signal that would otherwise be invisible at the network layer.
NetFlow Traffic Analysis¶
The HSG and supported gateways export NetFlow records to mfusion, providing granular per-connection traffic visibility: source and destination IP, port, protocol, bytes transferred, and session duration. This supports bandwidth accounting, security investigation, and dispute resolution without requiring packet capture — presented as an operational NOC view and a security-focused SOC view.
Cellular and IoT Visibility¶
For 4G/5G-connected devices, mfusion tracks SIM registration state, active SIM slot, carrier, and radio signal quality (RSRP/RSRQ/RSSI/SINR) fleet-wide. For IoT deployments, sensors report over MQTT through RansNet edge routers, giving live and historical visibility into smart energy readings (voltage, current, power, energy) and environmental metrics (temperature, humidity), with per-sensor alerting.
Automated Alerting¶
Alert triggers are pre-configured per device type through monitoring templates (Template_HSA, Template_mbox). When a trigger condition is met — device unreachable, memory threshold exceeded, link down — mfusion creates an alert entry and sends email notifications. Alerts are severity-classified (Disaster, High, Average, Warning, Information) for prioritised response.
Scheduled Reporting¶
Monitoring data can be packaged into recurring reports — select the hosts, graphs, and items to include, and mfusion generates the report daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly and delivers it by email or FTP as PDF or CSV. Reports support white-label branding (custom cover logo), making them ready to forward to customers and stakeholders without editing.
In This Section¶
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | The monitoring landing page — fleet status overview, organized into Overview, Wireless, Netflow, Mobile, and IoT tabs |
| Dashboard — Wireless | Real-time RF visibility into access points, SSIDs, and associated client signal quality |
| Dashboard — Netflow | Traffic analytics (NOC) and security analytics (SOC) built on per-connection flow records |
| Dashboard — Mobile | Cellular 4G/5G visibility — SIM state, active slot, provider, and signal quality across the fleet |
| Dashboard — IoT | IoT sensor visibility — smart energy and environmental sensor readings and alerts |
| Topology | Visual network map editor with live device and link status; includes auto-generated SD-WAN topology |
| Devices | Per-device monitoring view with status, uptime, WAN IP, and drill-down into items, triggers, and historical graphs |
| Alerts | Centralised alert log with severity levels, timestamps, and email notification management |
| Reports | Scheduled PDF/CSV reports with selected hosts, graphs, and items — white-labeled and delivered by email or FTP |
| Settings | Advanced monitoring configuration — templates, items, triggers, and bulk update tools (super-admin) |
How Monitoring Is Structured¶
mfusion organises monitoring around entities — a hierarchical grouping of devices that maps to your customer or site structure. All monitoring views are entity-scoped: selecting an entity at the top of any monitoring page filters the data to devices within that entity only.
Each device is assigned a monitoring template at provisioning time. Templates define the complete set of metrics, alert thresholds, and graphs for that device type. Administrators can inspect and override individual items or triggers at the per-device level without modifying the underlying template, or use the mass update tools in Settings to apply changes across many devices at once.