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ManageEngine WiFi Manager is enterprise-class software for centralized management and security of Wireless LANs. It enhances the availability and security of your WLANs by continuously monitoring the network as well as the airspace. WiFi Manager can detect almost all major wireless threats including rogue attacks, intrusions, sniffers, DoS attacks, and vulnerabilities. It can also save your time by enabling you configure hundreds of access points at one click. With WiFi Manager you'll have complete control over your wireless devices as well as your airspace, and more time to focus on core IT operations :
The Need for WiFi Manager:
- Rogue AP detection and blocking or to enforce "No Wireless LAN" Policy.
- Wireless LAN Security - Identifying vulnerabilities, protecting against intrusions & attacks.
- Wireless LAN Monitoring - AP usage, associations, interference, traffic, service status.
- Wireless LAN Management - configuring the Access points, managing their firmware.
- Troubleshooting the problems wireless LAN.
Key Features of the WiFi Manager
Discovery: WiFi Manager employs both wired and wireless scanning to discover the wireless devices in the network. On the wired side it uses techniques such as ICMP, SNMP, Telnet, CLI, AP Scan, WMI, CDP etc. On the wireless side it uses dedicated RF Sensors. These Sensors are IP devices which sits in the LAN and passively monitor the environment for 802.11 devices there by helping WiFi Manager to discover the same.
WLAN Security: WiFi Manager performs the following functions to secure the WLAN:
- Rogue detection and blocking
- Intrusion detection
- Denial-of-service attack detection
- Vulnerability detection
Monitoring & Reporting : WiFi Manager assists WLAN operators in keeping track of network health. Identifying most utilized AP, AP with more downtime, AP with most errors etc. becomes very easy with WiFi Manager. WiFi Manager performance monitoring capabilities include:
- Association Monitoring
- Bandwidth Monitoring
- Monitoring the Radio / RF Environment
- Monitoring the Security Parameters
- Traffic monitoring
- Error monitoring
- Response time monitoring
Using WiFi Manager operators can generate daily, weekly, monthly, and custom period reports out-of-the-box. And these reports can also be exported to other formats such as PDF for easy printing. Thresholds can also be set for the parameters that are being monitored. WiFi Manager can be configured to send email notifications or to execute other automated actions whenever such threshold values are exceed for the monitored parameter.
Configuration of APs :Using WiFi Manager administrators can configure access point for basic settings, radio settings, access control settings, security settings, and services settings. Administrators can either fill in predefined configuration templates and push the values to select access points or group access points based on model, firmware version etc., and configure them in bulk.
- Template based configuration
- Support for Configuring group of devices
- Facility to import configuration from one device and exporting to a group of other device
Firmware Upgradation : WiFi Manager facilitates remote firmware upgrade of access points. Upgrades can also be scheduled for later execution. It enables:
- Group firmware upgrade
- Scheduled upgrade
- Firmware upgrade audit
Multi Vendor Support :WiFi Manager supports APs from Cisco, Proxim, Dell, Avaya, HP, 3Com and others. Please visit the following link to check the latest status - Supported APs
Troubleshooting : Web-based GUI enables quick access to alarms, reports, configuration history etc., facilitating easy troubleshooting.This Feature makes WiFi Manager a wholesome and user friendly WLAN Management solution.
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