WESM zl Management and Configuration Guide WT.01.28 and greater

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Wireless Network Management
Overview
Overview
In this chapter you will learn how to monitor and manage your wireless network. You
will learn about monitoring:
■ wireless stations that are associated to a Wireless Edge Services zl Module’s
radio ports (RPs)
■ access points (APs) detected by a module’s RPs
■ logged events
■ alarm logs
When viewing such information in the Web browser interface, you can take several
common actions, such as:
■ clicking a Details button to view more in-depth information
■ clicking an Export button to save the information to your workstation
You will also learn how to configure the Wireless Edge Services zl Module to collect
information when necessary. For example, RPs do not automatically detect other APs.
You must enable this feature and configure the module to manage the information
that it receives.
Finally, you will learn how to implement self healing in your wireless network, which
maximizes network performance by allowing RP radios to respond to changing
conditions.
Monitoring the Wireless Network
This section explains how you can access information about wireless stations and
wireless network activity. It then provides some tips for interpreting this information.
You can monitor:
■ wireless stations’ associations
■ wireless statistics:
• individual statistics for traffic to and from each wireless station
• average statistics for all traffic to and from an RP radio
• average statistics for all traffic in a wireless LAN (WLAN)