Wireless Neighborhood - Colubris Networks CN3000 Administrator's Manual

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Wireless neighborhood

Open the Wireless > Neighborhood page.
Wireless
The wireless neighborhood feature enables you to view a list of all authorized and
unauthorized access points that are operating nearby.
neighborhood
Each time the scan is repeated it moves up one channel in the range supported by the
current wireless mode (a/b/g). Therefore, to view a list of all access points operating on
all channels will require multiple scans. Set the Repeat scan option accordingly.
The results of each scan are displayed in the All access points list.
To identify unauthorized access points, the CN3000 compares the MAC address of
each discovered access point against the list of authorized access points (which you
must define). If the discovered access point does not appear in the list, it is displayed in
the Unauthorized access points list.
List of authorized access points
Specify the URL of the file that contains a list of all authorized access points.
The format of this file is XML. Each entry in the file is composed of two items: MAC
address and SSID. Each entry should appear on a new line.
The easiest way to create this file is to wait for a scan to complete, then open the list of
all access points in Brief format. Edit this list so that it contains only authorized access
points and save it. Then, specify its address for the List of authorized access points
parameter.
When you edit the Brief list you need to remove extra text that appears before and after
each MAC address. For example, if the brief list looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0'?> <simple-ap-list> # MAC
"AP_1"
00:03:52:07:f5:23 "AP_2"
00:03:52:07:f5:12 "AP_3"
</simple-ap-list>
Reformat the list to look like this:
00:03:52:07:f5:11 "AP_1"
00:03:52:07:f5:23 "AP_2"
00:03:52:07:f5:12 "AP_3"
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SSID 00:03:52:07:f5:11