Introduction To The Smartpath Ems Gui - Black Box LWN602A User Manual

Chapter 7: Using SmartPath EMS

7.2 Introduction to the SmartPath EMS GUI

Using the SmartPath EMS GUI, you can set up the configurations needed to deploy, manage, and monitor large numbers of
SmartPath APs. The configuration workflow is described in Section 7.3. The GUI consists of several important sections, which are
shown in Figure 7-7.
Figure 7-7. Important sections of the SmartPath EMS GUI.
Menu Bar: The items in the menu bar open the major sections of the GUI. You can then use the navigation tree to navigate to
specific topics within the selected section.
Search: This is a tool for finding a text string anywhere in the GUI (except in Reports). You can do a global search or confine a
search to a specific part of the GUI.
Log Out: Click to log out of your administrative session. If you are logged in as an admin with super user privileges and there are
virtual systems, you can exit the home system and enter a different virtual system from here.
Navigation Tree: The navigation tree contains all the topics within the GUI section that you chose in the menu bar. Items you
select in the navigation tree appear in the main panel.
Main Panel: The main panel contains the windows in which you set and view various parameters.
Notifications: SmartPath EMS displays a summary of new SmartPath APs, rogue clients, rogue APs, and alarms detected on
managed SmartPath APs here. Clicking a displayed number opens the relevant page with more details.
Some convenient aspects that the SmartPath EMS GUI offers are the ability to clone configurations, apply configurations to
multiple SmartPath APs at once, and sort displayed information. Brief overviews of these functions are presented in the following
sections.
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