View the Wireless Summary and Monitor the Top 10 Widgets for Wireless Devices. Netgear NMS300 235 Pages
View the Wireless Summary and Monitor the Top 10 Widgets for Wireless Devices. Netgear NMS300
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The NETGEAR Network Management System 300 (NMS300) is a centralized and comprehensive management application that enables you to discover, monitor, configure, and report on enterprise-class networks with NETGEAR and third-party network devices. This manual is intended for network administrators. This manual describes the steps for logging in to the application, configuring the email server, discovering devices, managing device groups and setting up network monitoring, managing device configurations, managing alarms and logs, managing maps and topologies, generating and saving reports.
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NMS300 Network Management System Application
View the Wireless Summary and Monitor the Top 10
Widgets for Wireless Devices
You can monitor the wireless inventory and top 10 widgets for wireless devices on the network by various criteria and you can customize the information that displays on the
Wireless Summary screen.
View the Wireless Summary and Default Top 10 Wireless
Widgets
If you have not customized the Wireless Summary screen, the screen displays the wireless inventory and default top 10 widgets for wireless devices.
To monitor the wireless inventory, monitor the default top 10 widgets for wireless devices, and view wireless device details:
1.
Log in to the application.
For more information, see
Log In to the Application on page 15.
2.
Select WIRELESS > WIRELESS SUMMARY.
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By default, the following widgets display onscreen.
Widget
Wireless Inventory
Description Information
Status of the wireless APs and distribution of wireless devices in the network
• Wireless AP status:
- Number of APs that are up
- Number of APs that are down
• Wireless device type:
- Number of standalone APs
Top 10 SSID by Client
Count (Current)
Top 10 SSIDs by number of current clients
- Number of wireless management systems (WMSs)
- Number of wireless controllers
• SSID
• Device status
• Device name
• Radio
• Total number of clients
Top 10 AP by Client
Count (Current)
Top 10 wireless standalone APs and controller-managed APs by number of current clients
• Device status
• Device name
• Device type
• Total number of clients
Top 10 Standalone AP by
CPU Utilization (Today)
Top 10 wireless standalone APs by total CPU utilization for today
• Device status
• Device name
• Device type
• CPU utilization in percentage
Top 10 Standalone AP by
Wired traffic (Today)
Top 10 wireless standalone APs by traffic volume over a wired connection for today
• Device status
• Device name
• Device type
• Ingress (Rx) traffic volume
• Egress (Tx) traffic volume
• Total traffic volume
Latest 10 Wireless Alarms
Note: or GB.
Traffic volume is stated in KB, MB,
• Alarm name
• Device name
• Severity
• Alarm time
3.
To view details about a device, click the device name.
For more information, see
View Device Details and Interface Details on page 77.
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Customize the Wireless Summary Screen
You can customize the information that displays on the Wireless Summary screen by adding and removing widgets. You can also reset the screen to its default information.
In addition to the default widgets that are shown in the table in
listed in the following table.
Table 3. Optional widgets for Wireless Summary screen
Widget
Top 10 Standalone AP
Description Information
Top 10 Standalone AP by
Memory Utilization
(Today)
Top 10 wireless standalone APs by total memory utilization for today
• Device status
• Device name
• Device type
• Memory utilization in percentage
Top 10 Standalone AP by
WLAN Utilization (Today)
Top 10 wireless standalone APs by total WLAN utilization for today
• Device status
• Device name
• Device type
• WLAN utilization in percentage
Top 10 SSID
Top 10 SSID by Traffic
(Today)
Top 10 SSIDs by traffic volume for today
• SSID
• Device status
• Device name
• Radio
• Egress (Tx) traffic volume
• Ingress (Rx) traffic volume
• Total traffic volume
Note:
GB.
Traffic volume is stated in KB, MB, or
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Table 3. Optional widgets for Wireless Summary screen (continued)
Widget
Top 10 Radio
Top 10 Radio by Client
Count (Current)
Top 10 Radio by Traffic
(Today)
Description Information
Top 10 radios by number of current clients
• Radio
• Device status
• Device name
• Device type
• Total number of clients
Top 10 radios by traffic volume for today
• Radio
• Device status
• Device name
• Device type
• Ingress (Rx) traffic volume
• Egress (Tx) traffic volume
• Total traffic volume
Note:
GB.
Traffic volume is stated in KB, MB, or
To customize the Wireless Summary screen:
1.
Log in to the application.
For more information, see
Log In to the Application on page 15.
2.
Select WIRELESS > WIRELESS SUMMARY.
The Wireless Summary screen displays.
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3.
Click the Customize Portal button.
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The screen displays the widgets that are currently selected. The left side of the screen displays the Available Widgets menu.
4.
Customize the Wireless Summary screen by performing one of the following tasks:
• Add a widget. From the Available Widgets menu, click and drag a widget to an empty widget area at the bottom of the screen. When the widget is in the target widget area, the widget area displays green and you can drop the widget.
Table 3 on page 73 describes the optional widgets that you can add.
• Remove a widget. In a widget area that is populated by a widget, click the X ( ) in the upper right of the widget area.
• Adjust the widget order. To move a widget to another widget area, click and drag the title bar of the widget. When the widget is in the target widget area, the widget area displays green and you can drop the widget.
• Remove all widgets. Click the Remove All button.
• Reset the Wireless Summary screen to its defaults. Click the Default button.
5.
Repeat
until you have selected all widgets that you want to display on the Wireless
Summary screen.
6.
If you are not content with your selections, click the Reset button and repeat Step
7.
Click the Save button.
Your changes are saved.
8.
(Optional) Select WIRELESS > WIRELESS SUMMARY.
The screen displays its customized settings.
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Key Features
- Discover wired and wireless devices
- Monitor device health and status
- Configure and manage device settings
- Generate reports on network activity
- Create and manage device groups
- Manage user accounts and security profiles
- Manage alarms and logs