Monitor Clients
The Monitoring > Security > Clients tab displays all visible clients including clients connected to APs.
Select Authorized, Guest, Rogue, External, Uncategorized to view the list of categorized clients. You can choose one or more of these categories at a time. Select All to view clients from all categories.
Both active and inactive clients are visible in the Clients tab. Inactive clients of some categories are visible in specific deployments only.
For authorized clients, you can also view client traffic and the client average data rates.
You can perform various operations related to the clients with the options on the toolbar.
You can sort the client information columns in ascending or descending order and choose the columns to be displayed. To filter the display, you can search for a client by typing the name, MAC address, or SSID in the Quick Search text box.
View Client Properties
You can edit certain client properties. Double-click the property to edit its value.
This table provides a description of the client properties:
View Recently Associated to APs/Ad Hoc Networks
In the Recently Associated to APs/Ad hoc Networks section, you can view a list of APs and ad hoc networks to which the client is associated. The criteria for recent association is either 12 hours or the total number of APs/ad hoc networks (this is the total number of associations and not per device). The total number of associations depends upon the number of devices connected.
Information related to recently associated APs is available in specific deployments only.
View Events Related to the Client
In Events, you can see all the events related to the client. The event ID, event description, event start time, and event stop time are displayed.
View Devices Seeing the Client
In Devices Seeing Client, you can view the active devices that have detected the selected client. The name of the device and the RSSI of the device are displayed in this section. This section is populated for all types of clients.
View Recently Probed SSIDs
To view recently probed SSIDs:
- Select Monitoring > Security > Clients.
- Select a client.
- Go to the Recently Probed SSIDs widget on page 3, to view the recently probed SSIDs and the details for the selected client.
Change Client Location
To change the location of an client on the floor map:
- Select Monitoring > Security > Clients tab.
- Select the location.
- Select the client for which you want to change the location.
- Click the
icon.
- Select the new location for the client.
- Click OK.
Quarantine a Client
To quarantine an client:
- Select Monitoring > Security > Clients.
- Select the location where the client to quarantine is located.
- Select the client to quarantine.
- Click the
icon, and click Yes on the confirmation message to quarantine the client.
Change Client Category
To change the client category:
- Select Monitoring > Security > Clients.
- Select the location where you want to change the client category.
- Select the check box for the client whose category you want to change.
- Click the
icon present on the toolbar.
- Select the category (Authorized, External, or Rogue).
Disable Auto Quarantine
- Select Monitoring > Security > Clients.
- Select the location at which the client is placed.
- Select the client and click More on the toolbar.
- Click the Disable auto quarantine option to disable auto quarantining of clients.
Add to Banned list
To add a client to the banned list:
- Select Monitoring > Security > Clients.
- Select the location at which the client is placed.
- Select the client and click More on the toolbar.
- Click the Add to Banned list option to add the client to the banned list.
Print Client List for Location
To print the client list for a location:
- Select Monitoring > Security > Clients.
- Select the location for which you want to print the client list.
- Select the type of clients to print.
- Select the columns.
- Click the
icon.
- Click Print to print the list.