Banned Client MAC Threshold

Detect if a specific hardware address is detected on your wireless network.

See obsolete wireless card inventory, hardware you suspect of spoofing, and more.

Managing Banned Client MAC Thresholds:

From the Thresholds Library in the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center Libraries view, you can perform the following Banned Client MAC Threshold operations.

Add. Create a new Banned Client MAC Threshold.

Configure a new Wireless Banned Client MAC Address threshold:

The threshold will alert when any MAC addresses listed are connected to the network in the given time interval.

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:

Banned MAC Addresses. Enter any banned MAC addresses separated by commas.
Duration. Select an interval time range. The default range is 60 minutes..

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 Banned Client MAC Threshold.

Configure a new Wireless Banned Client MAC Address threshold:

The threshold will alert when any MAC addresses listed are connected to the network in the given time interval.

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:

Banned MAC Addresses. Enter any banned MAC addresses separated by commas.
Duration. Select an interval time range. The default range is 60 minutes..

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 Banned Client MAC Threshold based on an existing Banned Client MAC Threshold's configuration.

Clone a threshold based on a custom or built-in configuration:

Click on a threshold on the Thresholds Library panel you want to copy.
Click the Copy button, and click OK to create a new Banned Client MAC Threshold.
The Edit Banned Client MAC Threshold dialog displays.
Save or customize your new threshold, either:
- Type in a new value for Name field (or keep the default) and click OK to save to the Thresholds Library.
- Follow the Edit Banned Client MAC Threshold instructions.

Delete. Remove Banned Client MAC Threshold from library.

Delete an existing Banned Client MAC Threshold:

Select Banned Client MAC Threshold you want to delete from the Banned Client MAC Threshold panel.
Click the Delete button, and then click Yes to confirm the deletion.
The Banned Client MAC Threshold configuration is deleted.