Monitoring Wireless

WhatsUp Gold allows you to monitor the performance of lightweight access points, wireless LAN controllers, and wireless autonomous access points as well as manage wireless rogues. WhatsUp Gold defines "rogues" as devices detected due to proximity to an access point but unknown to the network, which should be investigated to determine potential risk.

You can also monitor and report on Cisco Meraki cloud-managed WLAN infrastructure.

Discover

It is best practice to discover using credentials for WLAN controllers. WhatsUp Gold network discovery uses these credentials to gather detailed information about WLAN access points.

You can create a regular scanning interval to detect and update active end-stations connected to your access points using the Schedule tab in the IP Address Scan wizard.

Note: In your discovery scan you must elect to Expand Scan to Include Wireless Environments. (This will enable discovery to include WLAN access points distributed over different subnets).

Your ability to manage wireless infrastructure devices is determined by your user rights. To view data on this dashboard, you must have the Access Wireless user right enabled. For the ability to actively manage wireless infrastructure devices as well as include, exclude, or manage rogues, the Configure Wireless option must be selected as well.

Map/organize/interact/monitor (My Network Map)

Wireless infrastructure (WLAN controllers and access points) and clients (devices running as wireless "end stations") can be filtered from other devices on the My Network Map using the Wireless Overlay ().

Show Wireless Devices. Click on the Wireless Overlay .
Create Custom Views. Create custom layouts or report views customized for your environment.
Add and Enable Individual Monitors. Select a device, click Device Properties , then assign and enable individual monitors.
Apply Controls. Add Thresholds, Notifications, Actions and Policies.

Analyze (dashboard, log, and report)

Analyze log, reporting, and dashboard data to assess performance, quality of service, and impact.

Wireless Dashboard. Select a Hyper-V host or VMware host and see metrics and system info for associated VMs.
Wireless Clients Dashboard. Reveals clients connected to your wireless network.
Rogues Dashboard. Lists unknown wireless devices and the MAC addresses they use.
Home Dashboard. Add a custom view and configure and drag in Wireless Monitoring performance and inventory reports from the reports palette.
Wireless Log. Wireless service events.

Capture (export and email)

Wireless monitoring data can be visualized, shared, and reused by selecting Dashboard Options () > Expand () > Export Data ().

Export. Export Monitoring Wireless data as HTML, Excel (XML), CSV, or Text files and leverage outside of WhatsUp Gold
Email. Email reports, charts, and log data. (Create and then edit/manage from Scheduled Reports.)