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Field
Description
Cipher
Displays the encryption or decryption cipher supporting the user, when this information is available. The
client devices may all be similar, but if the APs to which they are associated are of different models, or if
security is set up differently between them, then different
Auth Type
or
Cipher
values may be reported to
AirWave.
Auth Time
Shows how long the user has been authenticated, in minutes. A negative number (such as -17 min)
indicates that the user has not authenticated for the duration displayed.
Signal Quality
Displays the average signal quality the user experienced.
Usage
Displays the average bandwidth consumed by the MAC address.
Goodput
The ratio of the total bytes transmitted or received in the network to the total air time required for
transmitting or receiving the bytes.
Location
Displays the QuickView box allows users to view features including heatmap for a device and location
history for a user.
LAN IP
Addresses
Displays the IP assigned to the user MAC. This information is not always available. AirWave can gather
it from the ARP cache of switches discovered by AirWave. This column can accommodate multiple IP
addresses for a client if it has both IPv4 and IPv6.
LAN Hostnames
The DNS hostname(s) broadcast by the client. This column can accommodate multiple hostnames for a
client if it has both IPv4 and IPv6.
The
Recent Events
area lists the most recent events specific to the device. This information also appears on the
System > Events
Log page (refer to
"Using the System > Event Log Page" on page 190
).
Table 76
describes the
fields in this page that display in the
Recent Events
table.
Field
Description
Time
Displays the day and time the event was recorded.
User
Displays the user that triggered the event. Configuration changes are logged as the AirWave user that
submitted them. Automated AirWave events are logged as the
System
user.
Event
Displays a short text description of the event.
Table 76:
APs/Devices > Monitor > Recent Events Fields and Default Values
Evaluating Radio Statistics for an AP
The
APs/Devices > Monitor > Radio Statistics
page contains useful data for pinpointing network issues at the AP
radio level for Dell APs and Cisco WLC thin APs (firmware 4.2 or greater).
To see radio statistics details, navigate to the
APs/Devices > Monitoring
page for a supported AP and select the
linked radio under the
Name
column in the
Radios
list table, as illustrated in
Figure 81
.
Figure 81:
Links to the Radio Statistics page on
APs/Devices > Monitoring
for an AP
Summary of Contents for PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.6
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