Working with Clients

In this section:

  1. Client Management Overview
    The Admin Interface provides tools for monitoring and managing wired and 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
    To view a list of currently connected wireless and wired clients, click on the Clients menu.
  3. Renaming a Client
  4. Deleting a Client
    Complete the following 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. An alarm event is generated each time a favorite client goes online or offline.
  7. Client Connection Troubleshooting
    The Client Connectivity Trace is designed to help customers diagnose wireless and wired clients connection issues to determine why a client fails to connect to the wireless network.
  8. Running a Speed Performance Test on a Wireless Client
    You can test the wireless throughput to a client using the Speed Test tool.
  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. Saving Client Connection Logs
    Saving client connection logs may be helpful in troubleshooting client connectivity issues.