Monitoring Clients

Clients are the end-user devices that access the network through other devices monitored or managed by AirWave. You can view summarized information about all the wired and wireless clients in a dashboard on the Clients > Overview page.

Here are some of the things you can view on the dashboard:

• Graphs. The graphs show usage trends for all clients on your network. By default, these graphs show data over the last two hours. You can click in the graph to view details in a popup window, or click in the top right corner, to change the reported time interval.
• Watched Clients. If any clients are on the watched list, then a Watched Clients table displays on the Overview page, as shown in Figure 1. You can click the client name link to go to the Clients > Diagnostics page. Find more information about Troubleshooting Client Issues.

  Figure 1  Watched Clients Table

  

• Pie charts. The categories include operating system, device type, SSID, and WLAN vendor. You can click on the chart or the interactive keys to view client details in a popup window, as shown in Figure 2. In the popup window, hyperlinks enable you to drill down further into diagnostic pages, floor plans, and dashboards for UCC, Traffic Analysis, and Clarity. For information about using UCC and Traffic Analysis, see Using the UCC Dashboard and Monitoring Application Traffic.

  Figure 2  Drilling Down to Client Details

  

AirWave also provides several pages from the Clients menu which allow you to perform the following tasks:

• Monitoring Wired and Wireless Clients
• Monitoring Rogue Clients
• Supporting Wireless Guest Users
• Supporting VPN Users
• Monitoring RFID Tags

For information about creating AirWave users and AirWave user roles, refer to:

• Creating AirWave Users
• Creating AirWave User Roles