Creating, Running, and Sending Reports

Reports in AirWave are powerful tools for network analysis, user configuration, device optimization, and network monitoring. All reports can be printed, emailed, or exported.

What You Can Do With Reports

AirWave includes default reports that contain one or more sections of data, (also called widgets). The most commonly used reports are the Aruba License, Device Summary, Inventory, Client Details, Traffic Analysis, and RF Health reports . You can also create a custom report by combining individual widgets from multiple report types. The default report definitions become available after you have applied a license key.

You can access these reports after they have run, through hyperlinks on the Generated Reports page. You might want to keep only the reports that you need and delete, or reschedule, others to optimize your disk space. For information about working with reports, see About the Default Reports.

AirWave populates the default reports with pre-defined fields. Some default reports don’t span a period of time, taking snapshots of your device inventory and configurations. Commonly used reports include: inventory, configuration audit, and client sessions.

If these reports don't have the details you need, you can build a custom report with the help of widgets. By changing the restriction settings, you can isolate a folder, group, or period of time. For information about report customization, see Creating Custom Reports and Cloning Reports.

Track licenses

  • License. Use this report to track licenses on the devices in your network. The report includes the license type, quantity, percentage used, installation dates, expiration dates, and license keys. For information, see Using the License Report.

Improve Network Efficiency and User Experience

  • Capacity Planning. Use this report to track device bandwidth capacity and throughput in groups, folders, and SSIDs. Based on interface-level activity, you can use it to analyze device capacity and performance on the network. For information, see Using the Capacity Planning Report.
  • Memory and CPU Utilization. Use this report to view the top percentage of memory utilization and usage for devices and CPUs. You can use filters by specific devices, such as controllers, switches, and APs. For information, see Using the Memory and CPU Utilization Report.
  • Network Usage. Use this report to track network-wide information by usage and clients. You can narrow information by groups and folders, or summarize by usage and client count for folders. For information, see Using the Network Usage Report.
  • Port Usage. Use this report to find all the ports and switches in your network and view traffic patterns. The histogram identifies unused ports and switches. For information, see Using the Port Usage Report.
  • RF Health. Use this report to monitor the top AP radio issues by noise, MAC/Phy errors, channel changes, transmit power changes, mode changes, and interfering devices (the last two apply only if there are ARM events). This report helps pinpoint the most problematic devices on your network, and lists the top devices by problem type. For information, see Using the RF Health Report.
  • UCC. Use this report to monitor UCC activity on your network. This information includes the top connectivity types, call types, application types, device types, folders, APs, and clients with the highest percentage of poor quality calls. For information, see Using the UCC Report.

Monitor Clients and Devices

  • Client Inventory. Use this report to view information about clients that connected to your network. You can use filters and match criteria to customize your report. Information reported includes include manufacturer make and model, OS summary, asset category and group, and authentication type. For information, see Using the Client Inventory Report.
  • Client Session. Use this report to view information for each time a user connects to your network. You can use filters and match criteria to customize your report. Information reported includes MAC address, user name, role, and SSID. For information, see Using the Client Session Report.
  • Configuration Audit. Use this report to see a network snapshot of your device configurations. You can get an inventory one device at a time, one folder at a time, or one device group at a time. The report includes hypertext links to device configuration pages. For information, see Using the Configuration Audit Report.
  • Device Summary. Use this report to see which devices are used the most or least, as well as get an inventory of all devices. You can also use this report to establish more equal bandwidth distribution across multiple devices. For information, see Using the Device Summary Report.
  • Device Uptime. Use this report to monitor device performance and availability. This report covers average uptimes by SNMP and ICMP protocols, device groups and folders, or SSID information. You can add time restrictions so AirWave only generates the report during a planned maintenance period or business days. For information, see Using the Device Uptime Report.
  • Inventory. Use this report to track all devices in your network. For example, you could use the report to find Cisco devices and break down the list by model and device type. For information, see Using the Inventory Report.
  • Rogue Containment Audit. Use this report to see whether your rogue containments are failing. For information, see Using the Rogue Containment Audit Report.

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Troubleshoot Device and Network Issues

  • IDS Events. Use this report to respond to IDS events on the network involving APs or controller devices. AirWave reports on devices that have had the most events in the prior 24 hours. The report includes hypertext links to device configuration pages. You can use filters to show IDS events for specific devices, such as controllers and APs. For information, see Using the IDS Events Report.
  • Match Event. Use this report to track matching events that occurred on devices. For example, you could use the report to find sticky client problems and break down the information by folder, AP, and client. For information, see Using the Match Event Report.
  • New Clients. Use this report to see new clients that AirWave discovered on the network during the time duration of the report. Information reported includes user identifier, associated role when known, and device information. You can use filters to find specific devices and users, matching criteria, or view all information. For information, see Using the New Clients Report.
  • New Rogue Devices. Use this report to find rogues device on your network. Before AirWave can run the report, you must define the restrictions. For information, see Using the New Rogue Devices Report.
  • RADIUS Authentication Issues. Use this report to find the top 10 issues with controllers, RADIUS servers, and users. The report includes the number of total failures and the first and most recent event times. For information, see Using the RADIUS Reports.
  • RADIUS Accounting Issues. Use this report to find the top 10 issues by device, controller, RADIUS server, and client. For information, see RADIUS Accounting Issues.
  • Rogue Clients. Use this report to track the number of valid users that connected to rogues in the specified time frame. You can filter results by rogue classification, and you can include ad-hoc devices and client details. By default, the minimum RAPIDS classification is suspected rogue, and the maximum is contained rogue. For information, see Using the Rogue Clients Report.
  • VPN Session. Use this report to view summary or detailed information about VPN activity by sessions. You can use filters or narrow results with match criteria. You can also specify device types to include in the report. For information, see Using the VPN Session Report.

Sorting Reports

By default, the Reports > Generated page lists reports ordered by generation time. You can sort reports by any column header, or choose columns to display. Clicking the report title opens the report.

Table 35 describes each column for the Reports > Generated page.

Table 35: Reports > Generated Page Fields and Descriptions

Field

Description

Generated Time

Displays the date and time of the last time the report was run, or when the latest report is available. Selecting the link in this field displays the latest version of a given report. When the latest version of a given report is not available, this field is blank. In this case, a report can be run by selecting the report title and selecting Run.

Title

Displays title of the report. This is a user-configured field when creating the report.

Type

Displays the type of the report.

Subject

Displays the scope of the report, to include groups, folders, SSIDs, or any combination of these that are included in the report.

User

This displays the user who created the customized report.

Report Start

Displays the beginning of the time period covered in the report.

Report End

Displays the end of the time period covered in the report.

Role

In the Reports definitions for other roles section, this column indicates the roles for which additional reports are defined.