418CHAPTER 16: MONITORING THE NETWORK

Table 38 Client Activity Columns When a Mobility Domain is Selected

Option

Description

 

 

Authentication Failures

Number of times authentication for a client failed.

 

Common causes of authentication failures include the

 

following:

 

„ User glob or MAC address glob mismatch or Unknown

 

 

user

 

„

Invalid password

 

„

RADIUS server timeout

Authorization Failures

Number of times authorization for a client who has been

 

authenticated failed. Common causes of authorization

 

failures include the following:

 

„ Time-of-day, start-date, or end-date attributes do not

 

 

allow access on the date and time the client is

 

 

requesting it.

 

„ The VLAN the client is assigned to cannot be found.

Association Failures

Number of times a 3Com radio refused a client’s

 

association request. Common causes of association

 

failures include the following:

 

„ The encryption cipher requested by the client is not

 

 

enabled or not supported on the radio.

 

„ A static WEP key is required but the client did not

 

 

present the correct key.

 

„ Session load balancing is enabled on the MAP and the

 

 

MAP’s maximum session count has already been

 

 

reached.

 

„ The client is requesting a different SSID than the one

 

 

for which they have been authenticated and are

 

 

authorized.

 

„ The client is already associated with the radio.

Dot1x Failures

Number of times a client experienced 802.1X failures.

 

Common causes of 802.1X failures include the following:

„ A radio has already failed the client and the 802.1X quiet period was in effect.

„ The authentication request sent to a RADIUS server on behalf of the client timed out.

„ Bonded authentication is enabled and there was no machine authentication session for client’s machine.

„ The username does not match an authentication rule’s userglob for the requested SSID.

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