Users Guide

Devices
Click the following device options:
l APs, then click to select an option, such as planned or deployed, air monitors, channel, and transmit
power.
l Clients, then click to select the size of the icon displayed for wireless users.
l Interferers, then click to select the size of the icon displayed for sources of Wi-Fi interference. This
option works for Dell Networking W-Series ArubaOS devices running 6.1 or greater that have run the mgmt-
server type W-AirWave command and have APs performing spectrum analysis through hybrid scanning or
dedicated spectrum monitors.
l Rogues, then click to select the size of the icon displayed for rogue devices.
l Tags, then click to select the size of the icon to display Wi-Fi tags.
Client Overlays
Click the following client overlay options:
l AppRF, then click to customize thresholds based on your network and view the top 10 apps used in the
last 2 hours. In the floorplan, hover your mouse over a client icon to see user and device details.
You can edit the following color presets:
n Green indicates that a client used between 0 and 20 MB in the past two hours.
n Yellow indicates that a client used between 20 MB and 1GB in the past two hours.
n Red indicates that a client has used more than 1 GB in the past two hours.
l Client Health to view metrics for controllers running Dell Networking W-Series ArubaOS 6.3 or greater. For
more information on how this value is calculated, see "Useful Terms" on page 301.
l UCC, then click to select an option, such as Protocol, Type, or Quality.
AP Overlays
The channel utilization, channel, heatmap and speed overlays display information for adjacent floors to
determine how the bleed through from adjacent floors affects the viewed floor. Besides the current floor, you
can view all floors, or data from APs located on the floor above or below.
Click the following device overlay options:
l Ch. Utilization, then click to select an option, such as Current, Dataset, Frequency, Floors, or whether to
show the overlay as a grid. Airtime usage is a good indication of how busy an area is.
l Channel, then click to select an option, such as Signal Cutoff, Band, Channel, or Floors. This overlay
identifies regions covered by specific channels, or regions with overlapping coverage on one selected channel
or all channels in the 2.4 Ghz or 5 Ghz radio band. Hover your mouse over coverage areas for details about
the APs.
l Heatmap, then click to select an option, such as Signal Cutoff, Frequencies, Floors, or whether to show
the overlay as a grid.
l Speed, then click to select an option, such as Client TX, Rate, Frequencies, Floors, or whether to show the
overlay as a grid. This overlay provides the highest data rate a user will receive for all areas of a floor plan.
transmit power value for the overlay.
l Voice, then click to select an option, such as Signal Cutoff, Frequencies, Floors, or whether to show the
overlay as a grid. This overlay uses color-codes to indicate the number of radios covering each grid cell based
on the selected signal cutoff.
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