Access Points

A wireless Access Point (wireless AP) is a network device that transmits and receives data over a wireless local area network and serves as an interconnection point between the WLAN and a fixed wire network.

OpManager allows you to efficiently monitor various aspects of your access points including availability, health, signal, alerts, notifications, generating reports etc.

After Discovering your WLC, OpManager automatically identifies and displays a list of all the Access Points that are connected to it. To view the list, go to Network > Wireless > WLC and select a WLC. Or go to Inventory > Devices > and select a WLC device.

On the Access Point tab, the number of Access Points that are connected to your WLC is displayed. Click on Access Points tab to view all the Access Points that are identified by your WLC.

A list containing all the access points including the ones that are not monitored is displayed. To monitor an access point, choose an access point and click on the Start button corresponding to the AP or choose multiple APs and click on the start button. Conversely, choose an access point and click on Stop to halt monitoring your AP.

Discover New Access Points:

To discover Access Points that are not listed, click on the Discover Access Points button. OpManager will automatically discover all the access points connected to your wireless LAN controller across the network.

Monitoring Access Points:

When an Access Point is selected for advanced monitoring, it gets added to OpManager's inventory. As such, OpManager monitors the access point as a regular device for availability. If SNMP OIDs are available for the particular device models, and if the device responds to SNMP, OpManager can not only initiate performance monitoring, but also retrieve data regarding the connected clients and configured SSIDs as well.

To monitor the clients connected to the access point, navigate to the Clients tab on the access point snapshot page. You will find the following data:

• Client: The username of the connected client.
• MAC Address: The physical address of the connected device.
• IP Address: The network address of the connected device.
• SSID: The network SSID to which the device is connected to.
• Signal: The strength of the signal connection between the device and the access point.
• Connected: Shows the time since when the device last connected to the access point.
• Last Polled At: Shows the time when the connected device was last polled at.

To view the list of SSIDs that are configured to the access point, navigate to the SSIDs tab on the snapshot page. You will find the SSIDs, each with the number of clients connected to that particular SSID, the bandwidth usage, and the time when it was last polled at.

Since the advanced monitoring of access points causes OpManager to treat it as an individual device, you can add monitors of your choice in addition to the ones assigned (by default) through device templates.