Wireless Network Manager Administration Guide

Viewing the Wireless Client Journey

Wireless client journey is a feature administrators can track the behavior of wireless clients connected to a SonicWave, such as connection and disconnection of the wireless client.

To view the wireless client history

  1. Navigate to Network > Devices.
  2. Click Clients from the items available at the top of the page. All of the wireless clients connected through SonicWave wireless access points are listed in the table.
  3. Hover over a specific device to access the different icons :

    • Displays the logs.

    • Click to add the devices to the Client MAC Address Group. When you want to add a client mac to group, you must go to address group page to create a new group (if address group page has no groups), then click this button in client page, and you will see the group you added.

      You can only select one group.

      Address group page will display the client mac information in the group and the client mac AO will be displayed in address objects page.

    • Disconnects the connected clients device. It takes around 10 seconds for the changes to take into effect.

      This button remains gray and can’t be clicked when client is disconnected. When client status is connected, the button can be clicked.

      By clicking this button, the clients SSID gets disconnected. But this entry will not be changed in 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, the entry client status will be changed to disconnected.

    • Status of the sign-on

      • Navigate to Policies> SSID Policies page to edit SSID the connected client.Go to Guest Portal page, not only click-through option, select other options besides None.

      • After using client to connect SSID, you will be redirected to login website page. If this option is selected upon login, this icon changes to and ‘log out user’.

      • To login again, navigate to the website and enter the credentials.

      • After 5 minutes, the user name will be changed to unauthenticated, and gets disabled and displayed as 'user has been logout'.

      • When you don’t login to this page, the client host username will be unauthenticated, and the button gets disabled and displays as ‘user has been logout’

      • When Guest Portal type is selected as first option None and connects to SSID, this button remains gray and is displayed as 'guest disabled'.

    • Edits the host name field.

  4. Click on a specific wireless client to displays the details for that device.

  5. The information displayed for the wireless client includes:

    • MAC Address
    • Status
    • IP address
    • Host Name
    • User Name
    • Operating System
    • Physical Mode
    • Location, Zone, and Access Point
    • SSID
    • Radio
    • Connection Quality
    • RSSI
    • Vendor
    • Last Seen time

    The Traffic Usage graph displays the bandwidth details of the device.

    The Traffic History graph displays the current and historical traffic for the device.

    There are two kind of client journey messages listed in the wireless client details:

    • Client Journey - The connection and disconnection times of the client
    • Guest User Journey - The behavior of any guest users who logged in using that wireless client

The maximum tracking period for a device is 30 days.

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