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Section 3: Configuring the Access Point
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There may be situations, however, when you want to view or manage
information on a particular access point. For example, you might want to
check status information such as client associations or events for an access
point. In this case, you can navigate to the Administration Web interface for
individual access points by clicking the IP address links on the Access Points
tab.
All clustered access points are shown on the Cluster > Access Points page. To
navigate to clustered access points, you can simply click on the IP address for
a specific cluster member shown in the list.
Navigating to an AP by Using its IP
Address in a URL
You can also link to the Administration Web pages of a specific access point,
by entering the IP address for that access point as a URL directly into a Web
browser address bar in the following form:
http://IPAddressOfAccessPoint
where IPAddressOfAccessPoint is the address of the particular access point
you want to monitor or configure.
Sessions
The Sessions page shows information on client stations associated with
access points in the cluster. Each client is identified by its MAC address, along
with the AP (location) to which it is currently connected. This page shows a
maximum of 20 clients per radio of the clustered APs. See all clients associated
with a particular AP, view the Status and Statistics > Associations Clients web
page directly on that AP.
To view a particular statistic for client sessions, select an item from the Display
drop-down list and click Go. You can view information about idle time, data
rate, signal strength and so on; all of which are described in detail in the table
below.
A session in this context is the period of time in which a user on a client
device (station) with a unique MAC address maintains a connection with the
wireless network. The session begins when the client logs on to the network,
and the session ends when the client either logs off intentionally or loses the
connection for some other reason.
NOTE:
A session is not the same as an association, which describes a client
connection to a particular access point. A client network connection can
shift from one clustered AP to another within the context of the same
session. A client station can roam between APs and maintain the session.
To manage sessions associated with the cluster, click the Cluster > Sessions
tab.
Figure 57: Cluster Sessions
Details about the session information are described in the following table.
Table 68: Cluster Sessions
Field Description
AP Location Indicates the location of the access point.
This is derived from the location description specified on
the System Settings tab.
User MAC Indicates the MAC address of the wireless client device.
A MAC address is a hardware address that uniquely
identifies each node of a network.
Idle Indicates the amount of time this station has remained
inactive.
A station is considered to be idle when it is not receiving
or transmitting data.