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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 historical information. Diagnostic summaries highlight anomalies and situations that can affect end-user network
performance. AirWave includes monitoring views designed to aggregate critical information for the help desk, as well as
the high-end monitoring functions network engineers need.
AirWave monitoring features 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 25
l "Monitoring Data for Wired Devices (Routers and Switches)" on page 26
l "Understanding the APs/Devices > Monitor Pages for all Device Types" on page 26
l "Understanding the APs/Devices > Interfaces Page" on page 27
l "Monitoring with the RF Performance Page" on page 28
l "Viewing Syslog Messages" on page 29
Viewing Device Monitoring Statistics
You can view device monitoring statistics in the APs/Devices > List page. The APs/Devices > List page displays
interactive graphs of Clients and Usage and lists all devices that are managed or monitored by AirWave.
To see only the Up devices, click the Up link in the Top Header Stats bar (next to the green arrow). It 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 13:APs/Devices > List (partial view)