Applies To: WatchGuard Cloud-managed Access Points (AP130, AP230W, AP330, AP332CR, AP430CR, AP432)
The Channel History report provides details about channel usage for WatchGuard access points and identifies the reasons an access point changed its operating channel. These reasons include:
- Automatic or dynamic (DCS) channel selection
- Manual channel selection
- DFS radar detection (5 GHz only)
- Device reboots
The Channel History report shows data only for access points running firmware version 3.2 or higher.
View the Channel History Report
To view the Channel History report, in WatchGuard Cloud:
- Select Monitor > Devices.
- Select a cloud-managed access point or a folder that contains your access points.
- From the Devices menu, select Access Points > Channel History.
- To select the report date range, click
. - From the Access Point drop-down list, select a specific access point to view, or select All Access Points.
- Select a specific radio band to view its channel history events.
- To filter the results to view all channel changes for the selected event type, select a channel change type widget, such as Auto Selection, Manual Selection, Device Reboot, or Radar Detection .
Folder View
The folder view of the Channel History report shows channel history events for all access points in the folder.
- Click Compare Access Points to compare the channel history for up to three access points.
- Select a specific access point from the folder view to view its channel history details.
Device View
The device view of the Channel History report shows channel history details for a specific access point.
For information on how to schedule the Channel History report, go to Schedule Access Point Reports.
Channel History Report Details
The Channel History report includes a graph of channel change activity for each access point radio for the selected time range. You can perform these actions:
- Click
to download a CSV list of channel change events. - Click
to filter the list. You can filter the list by Access Point, Previous Channel, New Channel, and Reason. - In the Search text box, type a search query to search all columns in the channel history report.
The table includes this data on channel changes:
- Time — The time of the channel change event.
- Access Point (Folder View) — The device that changed its channel.
- Previous Channel — The previous channel used by the access point.
After an access point reboot or a configuration deployment, the previous channel value might show the default values of channel 1 for 2.4 GHz and channel 36 for 5 GHz instead of the actual previous channel. This occurs because the previous channel data is lost when the wireless interfaces reload.
- New Channel — The new channel selected by the access point.
- Reason — The reason for the channel change, such as Auto Selection, Manual Selection, Device Reboot, and Radar Detection.
Channel auto-selection events are not logged if an SSID is enabled based on an SSID schedule.
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