44 CHAPTER 2: PLANNING AND MANAGING YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK WITH 3WXM
Management and Monitoring
Understanding the management and monitoring tools available in 3WXM
can help you to quickly identify and correct problems in your wireless
network, as well as to provide you with the statistics and reporting
information you need to optimize your network.
This section discusses the following management and monitoring
features:
Network Status
RF monitoring
Client monitoring
Rogue detection
Event logging
Verification
Reporting
Network Status 3WXM provides summary status on devices in the network at the mobility
domain, switch or MAP level. View the summary status as the initial step
in monitoring. Summary status displays the operational status of WX
switches, MAP access points, and their radios (whether they are up or
down).
In addition, 3WXM collects network statistics for devices, including
system-level events and statistics for the wired network.
The Alerts panel in the bottom, left panel in 3WXM displays top-level
status information. The Alerts panel provides you with summary error and
warning information for the following areas:
Configuration—indicates network plan configuration issues
Network—indicates managed network issues
Rogue detection—identifies the number of rogue APs detected
Local changes—indicates changes in 3WXM that can be deployed to
the network
Network changes—indicates configuration changes in the network