Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold

Track client detected signal strength realized from a wireless router or access point.

RSSI helps detect degraded signals and when signals cannot support voice or video.

Managing Wireless Access Point RSSI Thresholds:

From the Thresholds Library in the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center Libraries view, you can perform the following Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold operations.

Add. Create a new Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold.

Configure a Wireless Access Point RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) threshold:

Name. Used in the Threshold library and the title on the Alert Center Dashboard.
Notification Policy. (Optional) Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. The policy initiates notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
Threshold Check Interval. Enter a time interval for Alert Center to check the Network Performance Monitor database for items that are out of the threshold limits.
Automatically resolve items no longer out of threshold. Select this option if you want Alert Center to automatically resolve items when they return to the value within the threshold limit.

Note: Notification policies are optional for most thresholds. If you do not select a notification policy, no notifications are generated for the threshold, but a dashboard report listing the out of threshold items still appears on the Alert Center Home page.

Add Condition Rules:

RSSI Percent Interval. Select a minimum RSSI.
Duration... Select a period over which the minimum RSSI should be considered.
Minimum Number of Clients to Use in the Averaging. Define the number of clients used to calculate the RSSI percentage.

Select Applied Devices

Apply to All Devices. By default, the threshold monitors all applicable hosts.
Exclude Devices. Select to build or apply an exclusion list.
Click Apply this Threshold to Specific Devices to choose the hosts to which the threshold applies.
Note: Configure the threshold check interval for a longer time than the sampling interval for thresholds relating to trends, such as percent utilization. Configure it for a time the same as (or similar to) the sampling interval when configuring a threshold for a health check.

Tip: Avoid setting the threshold check interval to a very short time. Aggressive intervals can degrade system performance. In general, setting the threshold check interval to less than five minutes is not advised.

Edit. Adjust, tune, and configure an existing Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold.

Configure a Wireless Access Point RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) threshold:

Name. Used in the Threshold library and the title on the Alert Center Dashboard.
Notification Policy. (Optional) Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. The policy initiates notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
Threshold Check Interval. Enter a time interval for Alert Center to check the Network Performance Monitor database for items that are out of the threshold limits.
Automatically resolve items no longer out of threshold. Select this option if you want Alert Center to automatically resolve items when they return to the value within the threshold limit.

Add Condition Rules:

RSSI Percent Interval. Select a minimum RSSI.
Duration... Select a period over which the minimum RSSI should be considered.
Minimum Number of Clients to Use in the Averaging. Define the number of clients used to calculate the RSSI percentage.

Select Applied Devices

Apply to All Devices. By default, the threshold monitors all applicable hosts.
Exclude Devices. Select to build or apply an exclusion list.
Click Apply this Threshold to Specific Devices to choose the hosts to which the threshold applies.
Note: Configure the threshold check interval for a longer time than the sampling interval for thresholds relating to trends, such as percent utilization. Configure it for a time the same as (or similar to) the sampling interval when configuring a threshold for a health check.

Copy. Clone a new Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold based on an existing Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold's configuration.

Configure a Wireless Access Point RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) threshold:

Name. Used in the Threshold library and the title on the Alert Center Dashboard.
Notification Policy. (Optional) Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. The policy initiates notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
Threshold Check Interval. Enter a time interval for Alert Center to check the Network Performance Monitor database for items that are out of the threshold limits.
Automatically resolve items no longer out of threshold. Select this option if you want Alert Center to automatically resolve items when they return to the value within the threshold limit.

Add Condition Rules:

RSSI Percent Interval. Select a minimum RSSI.
Duration... Select a period over which the minimum RSSI should be considered.
Minimum Number of Clients to Use in the Averaging. Define the number of clients used to calculate the RSSI percentage.

Select Applied Devices

Apply to All Devices. By default, the threshold monitors all applicable hosts.
Exclude Devices. Select to build or apply an exclusion list.
Click Apply this Threshold to Specific Devices to choose the hosts to which the threshold applies.
Note: Configure the threshold check interval for a longer time than the sampling interval for thresholds relating to trends, such as percent utilization. Configure it for a time the same as (or similar to) the sampling interval when configuring a threshold for a health check.

Delete. Remove Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold from library.

Delete an existing Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold:

Select Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold you want to delete from the Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold panel.
Click the Delete button, and then click Yes to confirm the deletion.
The Wireless Access Point RSSI Threshold configuration is deleted.