Observer®Software and WirelessLANs
16 ObserverUser Manual Addendum(Wireless)
Thetracked Wireless Events are described below.Notealso that the Expert Summary now displays w irelessevents.Event Description
Statio n 1->
<-Station 2 Showsthe wireless stationsending and the wireless
station receiving. Where possible, the client is l isted first and serve r
second.
Status Displaysa colored boxindicating the statusof the conversation.
Red indicates a critical event ha s occurred.
Yellowindicatesa marginal event hasoccurred.
Green indicates that the convers ation’s communication is wit hin
acceptable event parame ters.
Ared or yellow status willdisplay when any expertevent for the pair
occurs. You can customize the critica lity thresholds by click ing the
ExpertThresholdsicon to the left of the Expert Analysis win-
dow.
Packets->
<-Packets Displays the numbe ro f packets in each directio n of the pair’s commu-
nication.
Associations->
<-Associations Thenumberof association attemptsfrom the sending and receiving
stations.
CRC/PLCPErrors-
>
<-CRC/PLCP
Errors
Thenumber ofcyclical redundancycheck/physical layerconvergence
errors reported on the sending and rec eiving stations.
WEPDec ode
Errors->
<-WEP Decode
Errors
Then umber of Wireless Equival ency Privacy encryption/ decryption
errors reported on the sending and rec eiving stations.