3Com WX4400 3CRWX440095A, WXR100 3CRWXR10095A, WX1200 3CRWX120695A manual Monitoring Examples

Monitoring Examples 169

Monitor a Rogue MAP radios automatically scan the RF spectrum for other devices transmitting in the same spectrum. The RF scans discover other 3Com radios, as well as third-party, non-3Com transmitters. MSS considers the non-3Com transmitters to be potential rogues, and places them on a rogue list.

A rogue access point is an access point that is not authorized to operate in your network. Rogue access points and their clients undermine the security of an enterprise network by potentially allowing unchallenged access to the network by any wireless user or client in the physical vicinity. Rogue access points and users can also interfere with the operation of your enterprise network. You can configure 3Com to automatically use countermeasures against rogue APs to disable them.

Not all access points placed on the rogue list are “hostile” rogues. You may want to move some of the access points from the rogue list to a known devices list or a third-party AP list. For more information about this topic as well as more detailed information about combatting rogues, see the chapter “Detecting and Combatting Rogue Devices” in the Wireless LAN Switch Manager Reference Manual.