User guide

2 AirWave 7.4.0 | Release Notes
Admins setting up an AMP user role can set the default page upon login to be the new Clients >
Diagnostic helpdesk page; this hides the tabbed navigation bar, but the role will still be able to access
other AMP pages by editing the URL. Admins should ensure that a role with the Display client
diagnostics screens by default setting enabled also has the appropriate access and device management
privileges desired for this role.
Improved Clients > Diagnostic Page UI
The Clients > Diagnostic page has a new look and feel that makes it easier to review and troubleshoot
clients at a glance. Besides the familiar Device Info and Current Association section, this page now contains
trend graphs for signal and noise, SNR, and client usage, and the relationship between the client and the
controller is displayed across the top. Each client as well as its associated network, AP, and controller is
given an overall Quality rating based on the number of auth errors and alerts that indicate possible issues.
Planned Maintenance Mode
A new setting on AP list tables called Enable Planned Maintenance Mode puts all devices into planned
maintenance. The Ignore button has been removed from the APs/Devices > Manage page and the Modify
Devices list; instead, a new planned maintenance mode setting can be enabled. Changes to the Device
Down trigger that are related to planned maintenance are mentioned in the New and Enhanced Triggers
and Trigger Conditions in AMP section of these release notes.
During the maintenance mode, no AP Down triggers will be deployed on these devices. Users will not be
able to delete folders that contain devices in Planned Maintenance. The devices in Planned Maintenance
will show the Up status, but will not be tracked in historical graphs and logs as Up. The Device Uptime
report can be optionally configured to ignore these planned downtimes.
Improved Device Uptime Report
The Device Uptime Report summarizes uptime by AP, controller, switch, or universal device, and
contains four new columns for Aruba devices that track bootstrap count (number of times the device has
gone down for a firmware change), reboot count, downtime duration, and downtime duration percent. As
mentioned above, you can optionally ignore device downtime during planned maintenance periods in this
report, and you can restrict the report to business days only.
Localized Login Screen
The AirWave login screen now allows you to set one of three available languages. AMP will remember the
selected language until you log out and select another. A limited set of new UI elements have been localized
in Japanese and Simplified Chinese. In future releases, additional UI elements will be localized and
additional languages will be added.
Globally Remove Role-Based Report Visibility
A new setting on AMP Setup > General allows administrators to remove role-based reporting in AMP. By
default, the Allow role based report visibility setting is enabled. When disabled, reports can only be
generated with by-subject visibility.
Auto-Authorization Rules for Controllers and APs
Added a new Automatic Authorization settings section to AMP Setup > General, Groups > Basic, and
Device Setup > Discover (add/edit scan set). These settings allow the user to control the conditions by
which devices are automatically authorized into AP groups and folders. AMP validates the Folder and
Group to ensure that both settings have been set to valid dropdown options.