- Finding Feature Information
- Restrictions for WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
- Information About WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
- How to Configure Smart Back-off Reconnect
- Configuration Examples for WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
- Additional References for WSMA Enhancements
- Feature Information for WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
Web Services Management Agent (WSMA) Enhancements for Wireless Management feature allows you to reduce the reconnecting rates in an outage when device connections to the management server on wireless networks are disconnected unexpectedly. This feature also allows you to implement payload compression to optimize the bandwidth usage.
- Finding Feature Information
- Restrictions for WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
- Information About WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
- How to Configure Smart Back-off Reconnect
- Configuration Examples for WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
- Additional References for WSMA Enhancements
- Feature Information for WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
Finding Feature Information
Your software release may not support all the features documented in this module. For the latest caveats and feature information, see Bug Search Tool and the release notes for your platform and software release. To find information about the features documented in this module, and to see a list of the releases in which each feature is supported, see the feature information table at the end of this module.
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Restrictions for WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
- Only Web Services Management Agent (WSMA) EXEC response provides compression on demand.
- WSMA must provide support to all transport protocols including Secure Shell (SSH), Transport Layer Security (TLS), HTTP, HTTPS, and other TCP protocols.
- WSMA does not use the option to support gzip compression for HTTP.
Information About WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
Smart Back-off Reconnect Support
In a network outage, thousands of devices on the same wireless network (for example, Smartgrids) try to reconnect to the Network Management Server (NMS) at the same time. However, only limited number of devices can reconnect successfully on the first reconnect and subsequent retries. This results in high billings of some devices that fail to reconnect.
Web Services Management Agent (WSMA) enhancements for wireless management allows you to reduce the reconnecting rates with smart back-off reconnect policy by enhancing the existing reconnect command.
EXEC Agent–Response Payload Compression Support
The WSMA EXEC Agent enhancement allows you to optimize the payloads on wireless networks whenever possible to optimize bandwidth usage.
A new optional compression XML attribute in the WSMA EXEC request and WSMA EXEC response supports the new response payload compression feature. By default, there is no payload compression if the new compression XML attribute is not specified in the WSMA EXEC request.
How to Configure Smart Back-off Reconnect
Configuring Smart Back-off Reconnect
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. wsma profile initiator profile-name
4. reconnect [pause-time [exponential-backoff-factor [random]]]
5. end
DETAILED STEPS
Configuration Examples for WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
Example: Configuring the Smart Back-off Reconnect
The following example shows how to configure a smart back-off reconnect policy:
Device> enable Device# configure terminal Device(config)# wsma profile initiator smartgrid Device(config-wsma-init)# reconnect 130 4 random Device(config-wsma-init)# end
Additional References for WSMA Enhancements
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Feature Information for WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management
The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table lists only the software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that software release train also support that feature.
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WSMA Enhancements for Wireless Management |
15.4(1)T |
Web Services Management Agent (WSMA) Enhancements for Wireless Management feature allows you to reduce the reconnecting rates in an outage when device connections to the management server on wireless networks are disconnected unexpectedly. This feature also allows you to implement payload compression to optimize the bandwidth usage. The following command was modified: reconnect. |