Monitoring Access Points in Summary View

The AP Summary page provides all the metrics about the health, status, and clients information associated with the AP provisioned and managed in Aruba Central.

Viewing the AP Summary Page

To navigate to the AP Summary page, complete the following steps:

1. In the Network Operations app, set the filter to one of the options under Groups, Labels, or Sites. For all devices, set the filter to Global. Ensure that the filter selected contains at least one active access point.

The dashboard context for the selected filter is displayed.

2. Under Manage, click Devices > Access Points.

A list of access points is displayed in the List view.

3. Click the Summary icon.

The AP Summary page is displayed.

The AP Summary page displays the following information:

Usage—Displays the overall usage metrics for the APs provisioned in your Aruba Central account. Consists of the following tabs:

Usage—Displays the incoming and outgoing data traffic detected on the APs.

Clients—Displays the number of clients connected to an AP over a specific time period.

Bandwidth Usage Per Network—Displays the incoming and outgoing traffic for all APs per SSIDService Set Identifier. SSID is a name given to a WLAN and is used by the client to access a WLAN network. over a specific duration.

Client Count Per Network—Displays the number of clients connected to an AP per SSID over a specific time period.

Radios—Displays the channel distribution and power distribution metrics for the AP radios. For more information on radios in the summary view, see Monitoring Radios in Summary View.

You can change the time range for the AP Summary page by clicking the time range filter and selecting one of the available options: 3 hours, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months.