All SSIDs, All Bands, and Actions drop-down list

• All SSIDs—Displays information for the SSID you choose from the drop-down list. Default is All SSIDs.

• All Bands—Displays information for the band frequency you choose from the drop-down list. Options are: 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, or All Bands.

• Actions—Allows you to make changes to the dashboard display when you choose Edit Dashboards from the drop-down list. See Change the Position of a Dashlet and Create a Custom Dashboard.

24 Hours drop-down list and Timeline Slider

• 24 Hours—Displays information on the window based on the time range you select. Do the following:

  1. From the 24 Hours drop-down list, choose a time range: 3 hours, 24 hours, or 7 days.

  2. Specify the Start date and time; and the End date and time.

  3. Click Apply. This sets the time boundaries on the timeline slider.

• Timeline Slider—Allows you to specify a more granular time range.

  Move the timeline slider bars to the desired time range, and then click Apply.

Client Health Map or Hierarchical Site/Building View dashlet

The Hide or Show button, allows you to hide or display this dashlet. By default, the Client Health Map dashlet displays.

This dashlet contains two buttons that allow you to display the health of the client devices in a map view or site/building view.

• Client Health Map—Click the map button to display health of all the client sites on a geographic location-oriented client health map. By default, the client sites that are represented are color-coded according to the severity of the problem.

  The color of the health score represents its severity. The health is measured on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best score, and a score of 0 for inactive clients.

• Hierarchical Site View or Building View—Click the button, and then choose the Hierarchical Site View or Building View from the drop-down list. Based on what you choose, the table displays information. To view information about a specific site, building, or floor, click Apply in the appropriate row; information is refreshed based on your selection.

Client Health dashlet

This dashlet includes the following information:

• Client Health Summary area—Contains a Client Health Summary score and a client count distribution trend chart. The Client Health Summary score is the percentage of healthy (good) wired and wireless client devices in your overall network or selected site. The client count distribution trend chart (located below the health score) shows the count of all clients over time, shown as a stacked area chart based on their health scores. See Client Health Summary Score.

• Wireless and Wired areas—Contains the following:

  • Score—The client category (Wired and Wireless) health score is the percentage of healthy (good) client devices in a target category. See Client Category Health Score.

  • Trend Chart—Health of clients displayed in a trend chart (located on the right of the health score).

  • Donut Chart—Provides a count of poor, fair, good, and inactive client devices. The client devices are color-coded and broken down according to the severity of the scores. Hover your cursor over a specific color on the donut chart to display the number of clients associated with that color.

    • Red—Poor client devices. Health score range is 1 to 3.

    • Orange—Fair client devices. Health score range is 4 to 7.

    • Green—Good client devices. Health score range is 8 to 10.

    • Gray—Inactive client devices. Health score is 0.

  Click View Details to open a side bar with additional details. From the side bar, click a color in the chart to populate or refresh the data in the table below.

Client Onboarding Times, Connectivity RSSI, Connectivity SNR, Client Count Per SSID, Client Count Per Band, DNS, and Connectivity Physical Link dashlets

Analyzes the health of the client devices every 30 minutes and updates the charts in the dashlets listed below. Click a dashlet to open a side bar with additional drill-down capabilities.

• Client Onboarding Times—Distribution of all client's attempts to onboard, in all sites or a selected site, over time.

• Connectivity RSSI—Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) distribution for all clients, in all sites or a selected site.

• Connectivity SNR—Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) distribution for all clients, in all sites or a selected site.

• Client Count Per SSID—Distribution of the number of clients per SSID, in all sites or a selected site, over time.

• Client Count Per Band—Distribution of the number of clients per band frequency (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), in all sites or a selected site, over time.

• DNS—Distribution of the DNS requests and response counters, in all sites or a selected site, over time.

• Connectivity Physical Link—Distribution of wired client device link state: the number of devices that had their physical links up, down, and had errors.

Click View Details to open a side bar with additional details. From the side bar, click a color in the chart to populate or refresh the data in the table below.

Client Devices Table dashlet

• Filter the table based on client type, client health, and data.

  • Client Type—Options are wired and wireless clients.

  • Client Health—Options are:

    • Poor—Client devices with a health score range from 1 to 3.

    • Fair—Client devices with a health score range from 4 to 7.

    • Good—Client devices with a health score range from 8 to 10.

    • Inactive—Client devices with a health score of 0.

  • Data—Options are Onboarding Time > Threshold, Association Time > Threshold, DHCP > Threshold, AAA > Threshold, and RSSI > Threshold.

    To determine the threshold values for onboarding, association time, DHCP, and AAA, from the Client Attempts on Onbording Time dashlet, click View Details. From the side bar that opens, click the appropriate option, and then view the value in the Threshold legend.

    To determine the threshold value for RSSI, see the Threshold legend in the Connectivity RSSI dashlet.

• View client device information in a table format. The client device table lists information about client devices, such as user ID, hostname, MAC address, IP address, device type, last heard, location, VLAN ID, SSID, and the following information:

  • Overall Health Score—This score is the sum of the onboarding and connected scores.

  • Onboarding Score—Indicates the experience of a client device while connecting to the network; whether the client connected (onboarded) to the network successfully or not. For more information, see Client Onboarding Score.

  • Connected Score—Indicates the experience of a client device after the device is connected to the network. For more information, see Client Connectivity Score.

  • Connected To—Provides the following information:

    • Wireless Clients—Provides the name of the AP or Cisco WLC to which the client device is connected.

    • Wired Client—Provides the name of the switch to which the client device is connected.

• Display a 360° view of a client by clicking the MAC address of a client device.

Individual Client Health Score

If you search by the host name or user ID, the Individual Client Health score that is displayed is the minimum score of all the monitored client devices associated with that user. For more information, see Individual Client Health Score.

If you search by MAC address or IP address, the Individual Client Health score is the health score for that client device.

The color of the health score represents its severity. The health is measured on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best score, and a score of 0 indicates that data could not be obtained.

• Red—Poor client devices. Health score range is 1 to 3.

• Orange—Fair client devices. Health score range is 4 to 7.

• Green—Good client devices. Health score range is 8 to 10.

• Gray—Inactive client devices. Health score is 0.

Details about each of the client's devices is represented in a separate tab, for example, username-macbook or username-iphone.

Hover your cursor over a tab to view details about a device, such as device type, OS version, MAC address, and IP address.

Historical Health, Events, and Band Frequency Graph

Health, events, and band frequency information about the selected client device over a period of time displayed in a graph.

• Health—To obtain the health score at a particular time, hover your cursor over the time instance on the graph, for example, you can hover your cursor at 7:00, 7:05, 7:20, and so on.

  When you click a time, for example, 7:05, the entire page is refreshed, providing updates for that point of time. Note that the timestamp next to each category (Issues, Onboarding, Event Viewer, Connectivity, and so on) is also refreshed.

• Events—Event data is displayed by color-coded vertical bars on the graph. Green vertical bars indicate successful event(s) and the red vertical bars indicate event(s) that failed.

  Each vertical bar represents 5-minutes of time. Multiple significant events can be generated during each 5-minute window. Hover your cursor over the vertical bar to get more information about the event(s).

• Band—Band frequency data is color-coded and displayed as a horizontal line at the bottom of the graph. Light blue color represents 2.4 GHz band frequency and purple color represents 5 GHz band frequency. A gap in the horizontal line indicates that either the client device is not connected to the network or that the client device is not sending data.

If you do not want to view the event or band frequency data in the graph, uncheck the Events or Band check box in the Displayed Data area.

Issues category

Issues, if any, that must be addressed. Issues are listed based on the time stamp. The most recent issue is listed first.

Click an issue to view the corresponding details, such as the description of the issue, impact, and suggested actions. To resolve an issue, from the Status field, choose Resolve.

Click Resolved Issues to view the list of issues that are resolved.

For information about the types of issues, see Issues Detected by Assurance.

Topology of how a client got on the network, including information about the following services: AAA, DHCP, and DNS.

Example of wired client topology: Client > Switch > Router

Example of wireless client topology: Client > SSID > Access Point > WLC

Event Viewer category

Lists scenarios and the sequence of sub-events that led to each scenario. This allows you to pin-point during which sub-event an issue occurred. The following scenarios are provided:

• Re-Authentication

• Broadcast Rekey—Process of changing the session key—the encryption key of an ongoing communication—in order to limit the amount of data encrypted with the same key.

• Onboarding

• Delete

• INTRA-Roaming

When an issue occurs, that event is marked red, otherwise it is green. The second column provides additional information about the issue, such as the error message, and the AP and Cisco WLC to which the client device is connected. The third column provides the time stamp when the event occurred.

Click an event, to view details about that event in the right pane.

Path Trace category

Click Run New Path Trace to display a network topology between a specified source device and a destination device. The topology includes the path's direction and the devices along the path, including their IP addresses. The display also shows the protocol of the devices along the path (Switched, STP, ECMP, Routed, Trace Route) or other source type.

See Perform a Path Trace.

Applications running on a client device with their qualitative and quantitative metrics.

To view the metrics in a chart format, select the radio button next to an application in the table. A side bar opens with the relevant information.

See About Application Experience and View the Application Experience of a Client Device.

Detail Information category

Contains the following tabs: Device Info, RF, and Connectivity. Click each tab to get the appropriate information.