Configuring Global Wireless Settings

This dialog provides access to configuration settings specific to wireless device monitoring and associated data retention schedules. Ensure Global wireless enabled is selected for these settings to be successfully applied to your WhatsUp Gold wireless infrastructure:

Polling interval. Enter the length in time in minutes for Wireless to wait between polls. Please note, that setting the polling interval to less than 5 minutes has a direct impact on the quantity of data collected. Because more data is collected, a polling interval less than 5 minutes could affect performance. Additionally, increasing the polling interval does not change wireless threshold configurations in WhatsUp Gold. WhatsUp Gold will simply return identical results for applicable wireless infrastructure devices until the next global polling interval.
Log expiration. Enter the desired interval for log information to be retained in Wireless.
SNMP timeout. Enter the desired time, in seconds, for the poller to wait for an SNMP response from a wireless infrastructure device.
Session timeout. Enter the desired time of inactivity to be reached by a client before statistics for that client are associated with a new session.
SNMP retries. Enter the desired number of times to retry polling wireless infrastructure devices for SNMP data.

Data retention allows you to enable data collection from wireless infrastructure devices for specific data types as well as configure retention schedules for each type. When determining settings for data retention schedules, make modifications based on your network size. Consider that specificity is lost as data is rolled up from raw to hourly data and from hourly to daily data. However, keeping raw data for less time may improve performance. Data retention can be configured for rogues, access point statistics, client statistics, CPU/memory utilization data, and client group data. Please note, in order to collect statistical data on clients, data collection for access point statistics must also be enabled.

Important: You must have client groups created for client group data retention settings to be successfully enabled and applied.