Hi,
At work, I have been put in a position where I can manage CMTS systems. The reason for this is that guy who has been working on CMTS is on another project.
The things I am looking to add on for my test design are
- Improve download speeds through buying faster hardware.
- Enable SNMP Access for everything
- Enable Telnet Access
- Maybe look into MTA Asterix system and improve system.
- Enable Access to all MIB's
I do want to improve things at work for all the things we do with CMTS, but I dont want to be that CMTS guy. I like the other things I do at work like programming test design and working with operations.
So my questions are- can managing the CMTS be a part-time job ? We do have fully functioning multiple CMTS systems at work and I am just looking to improve things. How involved is all this?
Thanks
snmp (and thus mibs) should be accessible as long as you have your community string set in the cm configs, and have your walks properly configured. If you enable telnet access then make sure your public domain can't access your modem IP range.
Once you learn how everything works together, CMTS, CM, DHCP Provisioning, etc... and you can set up a management system to help automate those things, then once things are configured, there really isn't much to manage until you need to change something or troubleshoot something.
One thing I'm learning though is never remotely host your provisioning, and never give up articulate control over your config files. There is alot of flexibility you give up when you can't insert a custom config file for a particular customers needs - and no matter what they say, on a remotely hosted provisioning system, things can and will happen to that link, and it'll be down at the most inopportune moment. Things out of your control = bad. But you want it automated enough that you don't have to dink with it daily.
Sooo, you want to improve the CMTS area and functionality, but you don't want to be the "CMTS guy". That's a Catch 22, ...when the peeps at your job see you improve things, ...you'll become the new "CMTS guy". C'mon!!, that's elementary.