Clients had excessive Wi-Fi security key-exchange failures
The insight can be accessed from the , , , and context. This insight provides information on excessive Wi-FiWi-Fi is a technology that allows electronic devices to connect to a WLAN network, mainly using the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio bands. Wi-Fi can apply to products that use any 802.11 standard. security key-exchange failures observed in the network. When this failure occurs, users connecting to Wi-Fi using PSKPre-shared key. A unique shared secret that was previously shared between two parties by using a secure channel. This is used with WPA security, which requires the owner of a network to provide a passphrase to users for network access. or 802.1x authentication, experience higher EAPOL Key exchange failures. This insight is categorized under connectivity since the users are unable to connect to the WiFi network. This insight displays the following information:
Insight Summary
The insight summary provides the following details:
—Displays the possible causes of Wi-Fi security key-exchange failure in the network.
—Displays the possible recommendation against each failure to resolve the same.
—Displays the exact number and percentage of failures that occurred against each failure reason.
Time Series Graph
This bar graph displays the number of Wi-Fi security key-exchange failures that occurred in the network during the selected time period. Hover your mouse on each bar graph to see the exact number of failures. The following graph shows data trend for 3 hours in a day.
Figure 1 Wi-Fi Security Key Exchange Failure Data
Cards
The cards vary based on the context that you access the insight from. Click one of the cards to view further details:
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Global, Site, Client |
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Global, Site, Device |
Site
Lists the number of sites that experienced excessive Wi-Fi security key-exchange failures in the network. Click the arrow 
to view the pictorial graph of the impacted sites. Click the number displayed on the card, to view a detailed description of the impacted sites:
—Name of the site impacted by the insight.
—Number and percentage of failures occurred in each site.
—Total number of failures in each site.
Access Point
Lists the number APs that experienced Wi-Fi security key-exchange failures in the network. Click the arrow to view the pictorial graph of the impacted access points. Click the drop-down list, to view the following:
: Pictorial graph of 4-way handshake authentication failures sorted by SSIDsService Set Identifier. SSID is a name given to a WLAN and is used by the client to access a WLAN network..
: Pictorial graph of 4-way handshake failures classified by AP models.
: Pictorial graph of 4-way handshake failures classified by AP firmware versions.
Click the number displayed on the card to view a detailed description of the impacted access points:
—Name of the access points and link to the page.
—MACMedia Access Control. A MAC address is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on a network. address of the AP.
—Number and percentage of failures occurred in each AP.
—Total number of failures in each AP.
—Serial number of the AP.
—IP address of the AP.
—Model number of each AP.
—Version of the firmware running on each AP.
—Name of the site where the AP resides.
Client
Lists the MAC Address, name, host name, and auth ID of clients that failed Wi-Fi security key-exchange authentication. Click the arrow to view the pictorial graph of the impacted clients. Click the number displayed on the card, to view a detailed description of the impacted clients:
—Name of the impacted client.
—MAC address of the client.
—Number and percentage of failures occurred in each client.
—Total number of failures in each client.
—IP address of the client.
—OS type of the device.
