Table 4: Contents of the AP details pane

Section

Description

DEVICE STATUS

Displays the current status of the AP.

 

 

CONNECTED CLIENTS

Displays the number of clients that are connected to this AP.

 

 

UPLINK TYPE

Displays the type of uplink used.

 

 

ALERTS

Displays the number of alerts generated for this AP.

 

 

MAP

Displays the geographical location of the AP.

 

 

 

General

AP NAME

 

SERIAL NUMBER

 

MAC ADDRESS

 

IP ADDRESS

 

MODE

 

MESH ROLE

 

UPTIME

 

VC NAME

 

AP MODEL TYPE

 

FIRMWARE VERSION

 

CPU UTILIZATION

 

DEVICE MEMORY USED

 

DEVICE MEMORY TYPE

 

 

GRAPH

Select a parameter from the drop-down to view their respective

 

graphs:

 

Number of Connected Clients

 

Throughput

 

RF Channel Utilization

 

Number of Neighboring Clients

 

Noise Floor

 

Errors/Retires/Drops Statistics

 

 

 

Remote Console System pane

On the Access Point details page, click Console Access to view the remote console for the VC.

Clients

The Clients tab displays a list of clients that are connected to the network. The client names are displayed as links.

Table 5: Contents of the clients pane

Data pane item

FLAGGED CLIENTS

Description

Displays the clients that are experiencing issues like utilization, noise, and so on. It consists of the following fields:

MAC ADDRESS

IP ADDRESS

SIGNAL

SPEED

CLIENTS

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

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