Performing Daily Administration In Airwave; Chapter 8 Performing Daily Administration In Airwave; Monitoring And Supporting Airwave With The System Pages - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

Daily WLAN administration often entails network monitoring, supporting WLAN and AirWave users, and
monitoring AirWave system operations.
This chapter contains the following administration procedures:
"Monitoring and Supporting AirWave with the System Pages" on page 183
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"Monitoring and Supporting WLAN Clients" on page 196
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"Evaluating and Diagnosing User Status and Issues" on page 203
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"Managing Mobile Devices with SOTI MobiControl and AirWave" on page 207
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"Monitoring and Supporting AirWave with the Home Pages" on page 209
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"Supporting AirWave Servers with the Master Console" on page 221
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"Upgrading AirWave" on page 223
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"Backing Up AirWave" on page 224
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"Using AirWave Failover for Backup" on page 225
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"Logging out of AirWave" on page 226
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Monitoring and Supporting AirWave with the System Pages

The System pages provide a centralized location for system-wide AirWave data and settings. Apart from Triggers,
Alerts, and Backups pages that are described elsewhere in this chapter, the remaining pages of the System section
are as follows:
System > Status—Displays status of all AirWave services and links to their log pages. Refer to
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System > Status Page" on
System > Syslog & Traps—Displays all syslog messages and SNMP traps that AMP receives. Refer to
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"Viewing Device Events in System > Syslog & Traps" on
System > Event Log—This useful debugging tool keeps a list of recent AirWave events, including APs
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coming up and down, services restarting, and most AirWave-related errors as well as the user that initiated the
action. Refer to
System > Triggers—View and edit triggering conditions that cause AMP to send out alert notifications. Refer
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to "Viewing, Delivering and Responding to Triggers and Alerts" on
System > Alerts—View or acknowledge alerts sent out by the system and use the Triggering Agent links to
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drill down to the device that triggered the alert. Refer to
System > Backups— View the backup files that are run nightly. Refer to
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System > Configuration Change Jobs—Manages configuration changes in AirWave. Refer to
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System > Configuration Change Jobs Page" on
System > Firmware Upgrade Jobs—Displays information about current and scheduled firmware upgrades.
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Refer to
System > Performance—Displays basic AirWave hardware information as well as resource usage over time.
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Refer to
Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.4 | User Guide
page 184.
"Using the System > Event Log Page" on
"Using the System > Firmware Upgrade Jobs Page" on
"Using the System > Performance Page" on
Chapter 8
Performing Daily Administration in
AirWave
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page 187.
"Viewing Alerts" on
"Backing Up AirWave" on
page 216.
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