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Chapter 3
Monitoring Practices
With AirWave, you can monitor devices on your network with the click of a button and see real-time statistics as well
as relevant historical information. Special diagnostic summaries highlight anomalies and situations that can affect end-
user network performance. AirWave includes monitoring views specifically designed to aggregate critical information for
the service desk, as well as the high-end monitoring functions network engineers need.
Features of AirWave monitoring include:
l The ability to automatically track every user and device – wireless and remote – on the network
l Visibility into the wired infrastructure that connects wireless controllers and APs.
l Logging and displaying of radio and RADIUS errors, a frequent cause of connectivity problems.
l Rapid drill-downs from network-wide to device-level monitoring view.
l Logging audit and system events to an external syslog server.
Refer to the following sections for information on common monitoring practices that you will utilize on a daily basis.
l "Viewing Device Monitoring Statistics" on page 23
l "Monitoring Data for Wired Devices (Routers and Switches)" on page 24
l "Understanding the APs/Devices > Monitor Pages for All Device Types" on page 25
l "Understanding the APs/Devices > Interfaces Page" on page 26
l "Monitoring with the RF Performance Page" on page 27
l "Viewing Syslog Messages" on page 28
Viewing Device Monitoring Statistics
You can view many useful device monitoring statistics in the APs/Devices > List page. The APs/Devices > List page
displays interactive graphs of Clients and Usage (formerly Users and Bandwidth prior to 7.4) and lists all devices that are
managed or monitored by AirWave
To see only the Up devices, you can click the Up link in the Top Header Stats bar (next to the green arrow). This
displays the APs/Devices > Up page with the same information, but only containing active devices. You can do the
same with the Down and Mismatched top header stats links.
Use the Go to folder field to filter the list by folder, or click Expand folders to show all APs/Devices if you are looking
at a filtered device list. A lock icon in the Configuration column indicates that the device in that row is in Monitor
only mode. Figure 6 illustrates this page.