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30 HotPoint FWC 2050 & Access Point User Guide February 2011

Chapter 5 Monitoring

Controller

Summary

This screen displays a summary of the current managed Access Point status, rogue access points detected, current wireless sta-

tions connected, FWC2050 System Information and Network Usage. Clicking on the individual windows will lead to a new screen

showing greater detail.

Up: Managed Access Points running properly.

Down: Number of managed Access Points which cannot be pinged.

Critical: Number of managed Access Points which can be pinged but cannot be logged in or device is dif-

ferent from the one which was congured.

Major: Number of managed Access Points whose conguration differs from the one which is set on the

FWC2050. This is mostly owing to Access Point having an unsupported software version running or

conguration changes were done on WMS when Access Point was Down/Ofine.

Rogue AP Current: The number of unique rogue/neighboring Access Point bssid which can be observed now.

Rogue AP Count 24hrs: The number of unique rogue/neighboring Access Point bssid observed over the last 24 hrs.

Wireless Clients: This section displays count of Current Wireless Stations of managed Access Points.

FWC2050 Firmware Version: Current FWC2050 rmware version.

Controller Uptime: Time since last controller restart.

Last Reboot: When was the FWC2050 rebooted last time.

Last Conguration Change: When last conguration change was done on the FWC2050.

Last Channel Allocation: When last automatic channel Allocation was performed.

Last Admin Login: When Admin logged in last time.

Summary of content (6 pages)

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Chapter 5 Monitoring Controller Summary This screen displays a summary of the current managed Access Point status, rogue access points detected, current wireless stations connected, FWC2050 System Information and Network Usage. Clicking on the individual windows will lead to a new screen showing greater detail. Up: Managed Access Points running properly. Down: Number of managed Access Points which cannot be pinged.
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Usage This shows the transmit, receive, and network usage rates for the AP. Access Point List This shows the status of each AP under management. Name: Displays name of Access Point. Location: Displays location of Access Point. Status: Displays status of Access Point. MAC Address: Displays MAC Address of Access Point. IP address: Displays management IP address used by the FWC2050 to connect to Access Point. Model: Displays Access Point Model.
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Clients This shows connected clients. Rogue AP List This shows a list of detected rogue APs. You can double-click on an AP to see a detailed view. The shaded region (at right in this example) shows the estimated location of the rogue AP.
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Profiles SSID: Security: Mode: Status: Group Name: Wireless SSID configured for that Profile. Open/wep/wpa/wpa2 authentication mode of security. 802.11 b/bg/ng or 802.11 a/na mode for security profile. Indicates usage of that profile. Name assigned to the group. DHCP Lease The DHCP Lease screen displays current DHCP clients which have been allocated IP addresses. Host Name: The host name of the client, if possible to resolve. IP: IP address allocated to DHCP client by the FWC2050.
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WLAN SSID Mapping This shows the SSIDs detected within range of the AP network. Clients Local Client List This screen shows connected clients. Blacklisted Clients This screen shows blacklisted clients.
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Chapter 6 Maintenance User Management This allows adding and removing FWC2050 administrative users. “admin” is the default user with administrative privileges and cannot be removed. User Name: Add the name of the new user. Old Password: Enter the old password to make changes. User Type: Specify the type of access permitted to FWC2050 user Read-only/Administrative. A read-only user cannot make any configuration changes. He is allowed to see the all the statistics and configuration information.