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OptiView

Getting Started Guide

• The overall network health is displayed by continuously monitoring

802.11a/b/g channels and reporting key statistics important for

maintaining your network (e.g., signal strength, retry rates, signal-to-noise,

etc.).

Initial Setup

The color coding and icon legend on the Front Page screen and throughout the

user interface can be viewed by pressing the Legend button located at the bottom

of the screen.

The icons shown to the left of the SSID list are designed to provide immediate

visibility into potential unauthorized use of your network by unauthorized devices.

Device authorization is configured in the Details | Authorization screen.

indicates the device is set to Authorized

indicates the device has been set to Neighbor

indicates the device has been set to Unauthorized

Note

Initially, all devices are set to Unauthorized. See “Setting Up the

Authorization List” on page 16.

Country selection and global settings are configured in the Setup | Options screen.

Global settings include:

• Enable Active Channel Scan - This allows you to disable the wireless card

from transmitting and actively querying devices for richer discovery when the

Scanning indicator is shown in the upper-right corner of the screen.

• Enable Vendor Prefix for MAC - When this is selected, the vendor prefix (if

known) is displayed along with the last 3 bytes of the MAC address. When

this is not selected, the entire MAC address is displayed as a hexadecimal

value.

• Show signal strength in dBm - When this is selected, signal strength is

displayed in dBm units. When this is not selected, the signal strength is

displayed as a percentage.

• Enable Control Frame Packet Parsing – Turns on and off the display of

control frames in the Top Talkers and Packet Stats… screens.

• Enable Sounds for Wireless Discovery Events – When enabled, SSIDs that

become inactive for a specified time (see next item), are discovered for the

first time, or are re-discovered from an inactive state will cause a beep to

occur.

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