Getting Started Guide Dell Networking W-AirWave 7.
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Contents Overview 5 Initial Setup 5 How do I add devices? 5 Adding Devices with the Device Setup > Add Page 5 Adding Multiple Devices from a CSV File 7 Adding Universal Devices 8 Adding a Dell Networking W-Series Controller 8 How are folders and groups organized? 9 Groups 10 Folders 10 How do I discover new devices? 10 Configuring and Running a Scan Set 11 Add Newly Discovered Devices to a Group 12 How do I define new users and roles? 13 How do I define credentials for devices t
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Chapter 1 Overview Congratulations on successfully installing Dell Networking W-AirWave 7.7! So where do you go from here? This document is designed to help you with your initial setup. It also provides information on common configuration options and daily monitoring practices. Refer to the following sections: l "Initial Setup" on page 5 l "Common Configuration Options" on page 17 l "Monitoring Practices" on page 23 Initial Setup Dell Networking W-AirWave 7.
1. The first step to add a device manually is to select the vendor and model. Browse to the Device Setup > Add page and select the vendor and model of the device to add. "Device Setup > Add Page Illustration" on page 6 illustrates this page. Figure 1 Device Setup > Add Page Illustration 2. Select Add. The Device Communications and Location sections appear, illustrated in "Device Setup > Add > Device Communications and Location Sections" on page 6.
5. At the bottom of the page, select either the Monitor Only or Management read/write radio button. The choice depends on whether or not you want to overwrite the Group settings for the device being added. If you select Manage read/write, AirWave overwrites existing device settings with the Groups settings. Place newly discovered devices in Monitor read/only mode to enable auditing of actual settings instead of Group Policy settings. 6. Select Add to finish adding the devices to the network.
Figure 3 Device Setup > Add > Import Devices via CSV Page Illustration 3. Select a group and folder into which to import the list of devices. 4. Select Choose File and select the CSV list file on your computer. 5. Select Upload to add the list of devices into AirWave. Adding Universal Devices AirWave gets basic monitoring information from any device including switches, routers and APs whether or not they are supported devices. Entering SNMP credentials is optional.
2. Enter the Name and the IP Address for the device. 3. Enter SNMP Community String, which is required field for device discovery. Be sure to note the community string because it must match the SNMP trap community string, which is configured later in this document. 4. Enter the required fields for configuration and basic monitoring: l Telnet/SSH Username l Telnet/SSH password l enable password 5.
Groups Enterprise APs, controllers, routers, and switches have hundreds of variable settings that must be configured precisely to achieve optimal performance and network security. Configuring all settings on each device individually is time consuming and error prone. AirWave addresses this challenge by automating the processes of device configuration and compliance auditing.
the Dell Networking W-AirWave 7.7 User Guide. l SNMP/HTTP Discovery Scanning – This is the primary method for discovering devices. Refer to "Configuring and Running a Scan Set" on page 11 for information on how to utilize this feature. l Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) - CDP uses the polling interval configured for each individual Cisco switch or router on the Groups > List page.
Discovered devices use the default credentials configured on the Device Setup > Communication page for each vendor-specific device. Refer to "How do I define credentials for devices that communicate with AirWave?" on page 13 for more information. 4. Running a scan set. a. Navigate to the Device Setup > Discover page and select the check boxes for each scan that you want to execute. b. Click the Scan button located below the list of scan sets. c.
Devices cannot be added to a Global Group because groups designated as "Global Groups" cannot contain access points. 4. Select either Monitor Only or Manage Read/Write as the mode in which the new device(s) will operate. l In Monitor Only + Firmware Upgrades mode, AirWave updates the firmware, compares the current configuration with the policy, and displays any discrepancies on the APs/Devices > Audit page. AirWave does not change the configuration of the device.
1. Configure default credentials. a. Navigate to the Device Setup > Communication page and enter the credentials for each device model on your network. These credentials represent the default credentials that are assigned to all newly discovered APs. Community strings and shared secrets must have read-write access in order for AirWave to configure the devices. Without read-write access, AirWave can monitor the devices only; it cannot apply any configuration changes. 2. Specify SNMP Settings. a.
After the audit is complete, the configuration state should change from Verifying to Good. Importing Group Settings to Resolve Mismatches Some mismatches can occur because the controller's group settings don't match the desired configuration. In this case, importing group settings can resolve the mismatch. 1. Click the Audit tab to view the current and desired configuration settings. 2. Click the Import button.
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Chapter 2 Common Configuration Options This section describes common configuration options for triggers, reports, and alerts that you might use on a daily basis. Refer to the following sections for additional information: l "Which triggers should I set up immediately?" on page 17 l "Which reports should I utilize?" on page 20 l "Which alerts are most important to me?" on page 19 Which triggers should I set up immediately? AirWave monitors key aspects of wireless LAN performance.
8. Specify the Folder and Group to which this trigger should be applied. You can also select whether to include subfolders of the selected Folder. 9. Specify an optional note to be applied to this trigger. This note will serve as the message subject for e-mailed alerts. 10. Specify whether you want notifications to be emailed to your or sent via NMS (if an NMS server is available). 11. Specify whether the trigger should display by role or by triggering agent.
Perform the following steps to configure a Radio Noise Floor trigger. 1. Navigate to the System > Triggers page and click the Add New Trigger button. 2. In the Type drop down, select Radio Noise Floor. 3. Specify the Severity level for the trigger. 4. Specify the Duration during which you want the event to be polled and the conditions of the trigger. For example, you may want to set up a trigger to notify you if the Noise Floor (dBM) is greater than -85 for five minutes. 5.
As part of the initial AirWave setup, the following alerts will likely be of most importance to you: l Device Client Count l Device Down l Radio Noise Floor l Rogue Detection Which reports should I utilize? Reports are a powerful tool in network analysis, user configuration, device optimization, and network monitoring. AirWave reports include the following functionality: AirWave runs daily versions of reports during predefined windows of time. All reports can be scheduled to run in the background.
7. Specify whether to email the generated report. If this option is enabled, then valid sender and recipient email addresses are required. 8. Upon completion, you can add the report, run the report immediately without adding it, or add and run it immediately. Capacity Planning Report The Capacity Planning Report tracks device bandwidth capacity and throughput in device groups, folders, and SSIDs.
l By Role: When you create a report definition, the reports are visible to only those users who have the same role as you (ie AMP Administrator). l By Subject: When the report is run, AirWave users have access to the report if they are allowed to view all the devices in the report. 7. Specify whether to email the generated report. If this option is enabled, then valid sender and recipient email addresses are required. 8.
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 enduser 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.
Figure 6 APs/Devices > List (partial view) Monitoring Data for Wired Devices (Routers and Switches) The monitoring page for routers and switches includes basic device information at the top. Beneath that are graphs that display the number of clients and usage. A drop down menu in the graphs allows you to change the graph to view CPU and Memory utilization data. See Figure 7.
Figure 8 APs/Devices > Interfaces Page for Wired Devices (partial view) . The Interfaces page includes a summary of all the interfaces at the top. In case of the stacked switches, the master includes the interfaces of all the members including its own. The physical and the virtual interfaces are displayed in separate tables, labeled Physical Interfaces and Virtual Interfaces. VLANs are listed below the interface. The Interfaces page for AirMesh APs includes VLANs as part of the Virtual Interfaces.
Figure 9 Monitoring page top-level data common to all device types The alert summary and recent events sections are also the same regardless of the device type, and these sections appear toward the bottom of these pages. In addition, a link to the Audit Log is available on the bottom of this page. A portion of this page is shown in Figure 10.
Figure 11 Interface Monitoring Page for a Wired Device An Interface Monitoring page is comprised of three sections: Interface Information, Usage and Interface Frame Counters graphs, and Connected Clients. Specifics of the interface are in the Interface Information section, as depicted in Figure 12. Figure 12 Individual Interface Information Section Bandwidth and other frame-counter information are displayed in the lower section in a tabbed graph, which is shown in Figure 11 above.
Figure 14 Home > RF Performance You can click on a value in any of the graphs to view the associated list of clients. Figure 15 Drill down to view all clients When the client information is displayed, an additional drill down is available to view information for a specific client, device, or location. When you click on a Username in the Client page, the drill down takes you to the Clients > Diagnostics page.
You can find the AirWave event log on the System > Event Log page and at /var/log/amp_events from the AirWave command line. Perform the following steps to set up an external server 1. Navigate to the AMP Setup > General page and scroll down to the External Logging section. 2. Enter the IP address and port value of the syslog server. 3. Specify Yes for the "Include Event Log Messages" option. 4. Select an Event Log facility from the drop down menu.
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