Access points

The Access Points pane displays information about the status and location of the APs.

Table 3: Contents of the APs pane

Data pane item

Description

FLAGGED AP

Displays the APs that are experiencing potential issues with

 

utilization, noise, and so on. It consists of:

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

UTIL(%)

 

NOISE(dBm)

 

ERRORS

 

CLIENTS

 

MEMORY

 

CPU

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

Displays the geographic location of the APs. It consists of:

 

NAME

 

LOCATION

 

STATUS

 

CLIENTS

 

IP ADDRESS

 

MODE

 

TYPE

 

2.4 GHz

 

5.0 GHz

 

VIRTUAL CONTROLLER

 

UPTIME

 

LABELS

 

 

Utilization icon

Displays the radio utilization rate of the APs. Depending on the

 

percentage of utilization, the color of the lines on the Utilization icon

 

changes from Green > Orange > Red.

 

Green— Utilization is less than 50 percent.

 

Orange— Utilization is between 50-75 percent.

 

Red— Utilization is more than 75 percent.

 

 

THROUGHPUT graph

Displays the aggregate incoming and outgoing data traffic of all APs

 

over a specified period.

 

 

CLIENTS graph

Displays the number of clients connected to an AP over a specified

 

period.

Map

Displays the geographic location of the APs.

You can view the THROUGHPUT graph and CLIENTS graph for a specific timeframe (1 Hour, 3 Hours, 1 Day, 1 Week,

1 Year) by clicking 1H, 3H, 1D, 1W, or 1Y.

AP details

To view the details of the AP:

Navigate to Monitoring > Access Points pane and click the AP for which you want to view the details under

ACCESS POINTS or FLAGGED AP. The ACCESS POINT details page is displayed.

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