Access Points Radios with Excessive Transmit Power Changes

The Access Points had excessive Transmit Power Changes insight can be accessed from the Global, Site, and Access Points context. This insight provides information on AP radios that frequently changed transmission power levels in the network. It is categorized under wireless quality since the connected clients experience frequent throughput fluctuations. This insight displays the following information:

Insight Summary

The insight summary provides the following details:

  • Reason—Displays the possible causes for which the APs experience frequent transmit power changes in the network.
  • Recommendation—Displays the recommendation against each failure to resolve the same.

Time Series Graph

The time series graph displays the number of AP power changes in the network during the selected time period. You can hover your mouse on each bar graph to see the exact number of power changes.

Cards

The cards vary based on the context that you access the insight from. Click one of the cards to view further details:

Table 1: Cards Context

Cards

Context

Site

Global

Access Point

Global, Site

Power

Global, Site, Device

Site

Lists the number of sites that experience power transmit changes in the network. Click the arrow to view the pictorial graph of the Most Impacted sites. Click the number displayed on the Site card, to view a detailed description of the impacted sites:

  • Site—Name of the site impacted by the insight and link to the specific insight at the site context.
  • Insight—Number of power changes occurred in each site.
  • Radio—Number of AP radios in each site that changed transmission power level.

Access Point

Lists the number and details of APs that experience power transmit changes in the network. Click the arrow to view the pictorial graph of the Most Impacted access points. Click the number displayed on the Access Point card to view a detailed description of the impacted access points:

Power

Displays the number of power changes that occurred in APs in the network. Click the arrow to view the pictorial graph of the impacted band Band refers to a specified range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.. Click the Power drop-down list to view the following:

  • Power Changes over Time—Pictorial graphs of power transmit changes observed across time for 2.4 GHz Gigahertz. and 5 GHz radio. Click to expand the power change data.
  • Power Distribution—Pictorial graph of the percentage of time spent across power levels for the time period in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz band. Click to expand the power distribution data.
  • Band—Pictorial graph of the percent of number of changes observed in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands.
  • Variance—Pictorial graph of the percentage of variance in transmission power across the number of APs in that power variance for the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz band. Click to expand the variance data.

Click the number displayed on the Power card to view a detailed description of the impacted channels:

  • Band—Number of power changes observed in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands.
  • Changes—Number of power changes that occurred in each band.