Deployment Guide

Function Image Description

Schedule

Schedules a window for reports, device changes, or

maintenance.

Searches AirWave for the specified client, device, rogue,

group, folder, tag, or session.

Set Time Range

Sets the time range for interactive graphs to the range

specified.

Up Indicates devices that are in the Up status.

Upgrade

Firmware

Applies a new firmware image to an AP/device.

Usage Displays current bandwidth.

View Historical

Graph in New

Window

Displays all data series for the selected graph over the

last two hours, last day, last week, last month, and last

year in one new pop-up window.

VisualRF Links to VisualRF - real time visualization.

VPN Sessions

XML Links to export XHTML versions of reports.

Table 5:

Standard Buttons and Icons (Continued)

Getting Started with AirWave

This topic describes how to perform an initial launch of the AirWave network management solution on a session-based

authentication scheme.

When an AirWave URL is accessed either interactively using a browser or programmatically using an API, a sent cookie

may match a session stored in the database, granting authentication (but not necessarily access, depending on how the

user’s role matches the required role for the URL). If the cookie is not present or the session in the database has expired,

the request is denied.

For browser requests, this results in a login form being displayed. When you submit the login form, the supplied

credentials are checked against the AirWave’s user database, an external RADIUS server, an external TACACS+ server,

or an external LDAP server, per the AirWave configuration. If the credentials are valid, the user’s browser is sent a

session cookie to use in subsequent requests.

Use your browser to navigate to the static IP address assigned to the internal page of the AirWave, as shown in Figure 8.

Enter the User Name and Password as admin/admin for your initial login, and then select Log In.

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