Working with Clients

In this section:

  1. Client Management Overview
    The Unleashed Admin Interface provides tools for monitoring and managing wireless clients, including blocking and deleting client devices, viewing an overview of client traffic, and drilling down into details about a specific client's connection status and traffic statistics.
  2. Viewing the Clients List
  3. Renaming a Client
    Unleashed collects client host names from the client's operating system and displays them in client lists, tables and charts on the web interface. However, the host names provided by the OS are often not very useful in identifying clients on the network.
  4. Deleting a Client
    Follow these steps to temporarily disconnect a client device from your WLAN. (The user can simply reconnect manually, if they prefer.) This is helpful as a troubleshooting tip for problematic network connections.
  5. Permanently Blocking a Client Device
  6. Marking a Client as a Favorite
    Designating a client as a "favorite" client provides a way to monitor the client's behavior, triggering a report when the client goes online or offline.
  7. Running a Speed Performance Test on a Wireless Client
    You can test the wireless throughput to a client using the Speed Test tool.
  8. Client Connection Troubleshooting
    The client connectivity trace feature is designed to help customers diagnose wireless client connection issues to determine why a client fails to connect to the wireless network.
  9. Marking a Client as a Legacy Device
    Designating a wireless client as a legacy device provides a way to change a password, but allows original connected wireless devices to continue using the previous password. On a large-scale deployment, marking a wireless client as a legacy device is effective because the customer is not required to change the passwords on all the connected wireless devices.
  10. Adding User Accounts to the Internal User Database
  11. Authenticating Clients Using an External Database
    In addition to the Internal User Database, Unleashed also supports authenticating clients using an external authentication server.