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Cisco WCS Administration

Monitoring the Network with Cisco WCS

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Initial Screen—Home

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Home > Edit Tabs

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Home > Edit Content

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Home > Personalized Tab

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The Monitor Menu

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The Alarm Dashboard

Refreshes every 15 seconds Four levels:

– Clear = no alarm

– Yellow = minor alarm

– Orange = major alarm

– Red = critical alarm

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Monitor > Controllers

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Monitor > Access Points

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Monitor > Clients

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Associated Clients (vs. Time)

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Monitor > Clients > Troubleshoot

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Monitor > Security

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Monitor > Security—Rogues

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Monitor > Security—Miscellaneous

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Monitor > Alarms

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Monitor > Events

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Cisco WCS Location

Ability to locate any 802.11 active device

Accuracy:

– 90% to within 10 meters, 50% to within 5 meters

– Depends on environment characteristics and calibration

On demand, one device with Cisco WCS alone

Up to 2500 devices with Cisco Location Appliance

– 30-day history (configurable)

Can identify and locate non-802.11 interference with Spectrum Intelligence sensor

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Location Tracking Methods

RF Closest AP Pro: Simple, with no new technology requirement

Con: Limited accuracy, since an AP can easily cover several thousand square feet

RF Triangulation Pro: More accurate than a single RF RSSI

Con: Limited accuracy; does not account for effects of building material which may cause reflection, attenuation or multipath

RF Fingerprinting Pro: GPS-like accuracy

Con: More comprehensive (requires RF prediction tools)

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Location Tracking Using Closest AP

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Location Tracking Using Triangulation

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Location Tracking Using RF Fingerprinting

RF fingerprinting traces signal strength for every signal heard by a Cisco AP in the network, which allows accounting for reflection and multipath.

Then a RF fingerprint is created from every point on the coverage map, which allows Cisco WCS to accurately place an icon and create a probability color grid.

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Cisco WCS Location Without Appliance

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Cisco WCS Location with Appliance

Cisco WCS with Location and Location Appliance accuracy 90% to within 10 meters, and 50% to within 5 meters

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Searching for a Device

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Search > Clients

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Search > Clients (Cont.)

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Recent/Present Map

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Summary

The home page for each user consists of tabs that can be personalized.

Cisco WCS also has a Monitor menu, where each type of device can be verified.

An alarm dashboard can give an alert in case of an unusual event.

Controllers can be monitored and managed.

APs can be verified individually or through a network summary.

Detailed information about clients can be displayed.

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Summary (Cont.)

Each security-related event can be checked before you take further action.

Cisco WCS has a summary page where alarms are grouped and displayed, even when the alarm-triggering event is not in the network anymore.

All events can be accessed and assigned to different administrative users, depending on their nature.

Cisco WCS has a location capability to identify the position on a map of any wireless device.

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