1. Strix Element Management System
Strix Manager/One
The Strix Access/One Network architecture combines the industry’s unmatched mesh routing
intelligence, designed from the ground up to optimize throughput in a dynamic metro-scale Wi-
Fi mesh environment, with carrier-grade centralized element management software and a
purpose-built management hardware module. The Strix Access/One Network architecture
leverages multiple frequencies to enable metro-scale mesh deployments that are not possible
by other mesh vendors. The result: a fast, low-cost and simple wireless broadband solution
available anywhere.
Strix Systems makes it incredibly easy to deploy and control hundreds or thousands of mesh
units for secure, ubiquitous 802.11 coverage over metropolitan areas. Metro-scale networks
require specialized management that Strix Manager/One already provides including robust
network monitoring and granular manageability.
Strix Manager/One is a powerful element manager, allowing network operators to perform a
multitude of functions, including over the air configuration and updates of Strix Access/One
Network units, whole network performance monitoring and statistical capture – including
simple point-and-click graph creation, real-time link state and client connectivity monitoring
and user-defined functions such as MAC address filtering and rogue client black listing.
Strix offers centralized web-based, command-line, and SNMP MIB interfaces to Access/One®
Network OWS and IWS, providing all the management tools necessary to monitor, manage and
configure the network for functional efficiency, reliability and security.
Strix Manager/One software resides on the Strix hardware based Network Server module and
on all wireless modules within the Access/One Network.
Strix Network Server Modules – Outdoor and Indoor Models

2. The web interface uses a tabbed page design with supporting frames, pull-down menus, pop-up
dialogs, and mouse over features to provide detailed knowledge about the network and its
current active state. The network topology view shows a hierarchical view of the network,
remote an local unit information, signal strength, data rate, and other parameters.
Web GUI Main Screen for Strix Manager/One
Network Topology Screen for Strix Manager/One

3. Manager/One Screen Shot
Strix Manager/One key features:
• Deployment & Provisioning
o Provides mechanisms to deploy any combination of Strix Access/One units from
one unit to an entire network in a simple process at both initial installation and
in subsequent moves, adds and changes.
o Allows units to be provisioned over the air using a simple profile, highly
customized profiles, or multiple profiles.
o Enables encrypted passwords and Trusted IP access policies for access and
security tailored to users. Supports allow/deny lists, MAC address filtering, rogue
client deny lists.
o Global and incremental software upgrades. Allows the network to be viewed as a
single device for upgrade purposes. Designed to meet the unique upgrade needs
of metro-scale mesh networks
• Monitoring
o Offers a unified network view to see and manage the entire network
o View, identify and diagnose problems with alarm monitoring tools and root
cause diagnostics

4. o Provides tools for alarm reporting and notification
o Fully supports remote access to the network and all Strix Manager/One
functionality can be accessed remotely
• Managing
o Watch, in real time, all network activity through a series of network views
o Performance measurement tools to track path throughput
o Custom and standard reporting
o Capabilities to integrate with network management systems: it can operate as a
standalone system, integrate with a customer’s existing NOC, or manage other
network devices. Supports 802.11 SNMP MIB (Management Information Base),
as well as Strix proprietary MIBs. Any MIB I or MIB II compliant SNMP
management console (such as CiscoWorks or HP OpenView) can be used to
manage the network on-site or remotely.
Deployment & Provisioning
Strix Manager/One is designed to deploy and provision any number of nodes at a time. It is
particularly well-designed for initial implementations. Users can:
• Install/mount the units in the field
• Discover and log into the IP address of the Strix Network Sever module and
Manager/One interface. Globally provision network settings for all units.
• Discover all units and auto meshing of Access/One units from Manager/One
• One step push network setting to all units and admit into Network and trusted
inventory system
• Immediately determine global health, monitoring, performance and statistics
Users can also follow the same process for incremental unit additions or changes in the
network.
Provision units from a single system level configuration profile, highly customized profiles or
multiple profiles per device. The following screen entitled, Manager/One Global Radio Profile
Settings, shows the list of settings that can be customized.
Manager/One Global Radio Profile Settings

5. Per BSSID
Configuration
• Configure multiple BSSID’s and VLAN tags, up to 16 BSSID’s and 250 VLANs
supported per radio
• Suppress BSSID on or off
• Enable security encryption and authentication methods, unique per BSSID
• Enable if desired, Client Connect Privacy to isolate users and traffic at the radio and
throughout the network. This is a per BSSID feature
• Select if desired, Manage ACL to configure allow/strict/deny of ACL lists, MAC
address filtering and assign to VLAN or a unique encryption key
Global and incremental software upgrades
Manager/One enables global deployment, staging and upgrading all units in the network in a
single step process. It is designed for the special needs of a metro-scale mesh network that
traditional element management systems designed for wired environments do not handle. For

6. example, path quality can vary so an element management system needs to throttle upgrades
to adjust to the available throughput on a path.
Strix Manager/One provides powerful health/audit and monitoring of upgrades. In real time,
system administrators can monitor the success of upgrades on a device by device basis. The
following screen shot entitled, View Action Status shows an example of a 6 second status taken
from an actual upgrade.
View Action Status
Manager/One Health Status and Monitoring
Offers a unified network view to see and manage the entire network. The ability to monitor the
entire network from a variety of views, including a geographic view of the Strix units
superimposed over a map of the installation as shown provides easy identification of problems.
Strix Manager/One – Access Point Monitor

7. Strix Manager/One - Backhaul Monitor
View, Identify and Diagnose - Alarm monitoring tools and root cause diagnostics. Strix
Manager/One or integration with SNMP and Syslog interfaces show total alarms and events by
category in a single view as well as details on each of those alarms. Real-time visual indicators
show units by health state and a correlated color to represent that state.
Proactive Notification. Within Strix Manager/One, system administrators can specify alarms
and events that designated staff should be notified of by email or SMS. They can select the
alarm type, the alarm threshold and then pre-populate the notification with the target staff’s
addresses along with procedures for resolving the alarm type.

8. Management
Strix Manager/One provides real time reporting of network performance. Each unit is displayed
geographically and the mesh diagram displays real-time backhaul path location and color coded
line based on signal strength. Clicking on units displays real-time backhaul path, alternative
paths, RSSI local and remote, throughput, unit distance, round trip, noise, number of hops to
the wired node, and other metrics. From a tabular view, multiple categories of unit metrics are
possible including active backhaul locations, link status and metrics for those links.
Reporting. Strix Manager/One provides standard and custom reporting for a variety of events
and alarms within the network. For example, it can provide reports on a network or client
basis. A sampling of the reporting it can provide for client devices includes the following:
• Transmit and receive traffic through units
• Client counts by node or gateway
• Client Signal to Noise Ratio levels
The following screen entitled, Sample Reporting from … an example of the built-in reporting
available in Strix Manager/One.
Capabilities to integrate with network management systems.
Strix Manager/One can be a standalone system, integrate with a customer’s existing NOC. It
also integrates with best of breed SNMP management applications and includes as multitude of
MIBs to manage, monitor and configure the network and devices.

9. Strix Manager/One Configuration for SNMP
List of Strix SNMP Traps

10. Strix supports 802.11 SNMP MIB (Management Information Base), as well as Strix proprietary
MIBs. Any MIB I or MIB II compliant SNMP management console (such as CiscoWorks, CA
Unicenter, HP OpenView or others) can be used to manage the network on-site or remotely.
M3 - Mesh Management and Monitoring Tool
M3 interfaces mainly with networks servers thereby preventing intensive management traffic
on the wireless network.
The following are functions and capabilities of M3.
• Mapping and Location
• Monitoring
• Statistics and Historical Information
• Troubleshooting
• Alarms
• Open API
• Extend M1 Functionality

11. The following are the components of M3:
• M3 Engine
• Database
• M3 Server Application
• M3 Client Viewer (Web Browser)
M3 is an open platform that can run in a stand-alone platform or distributed, in a Windows or
Linux environment. The following is a list of the components of the M3 management platform.
• SQL Database
• Firebird – Database engine
• PHP – Runs the engine and the CGI scripts
• MAP APIs to display Google maps
• SNMP agent
• Web server (Apache, IIS…)
M3 Screen Shots