Access point radios, functioning as sensors, along with AirDefense WIPS servers protect networks from attacks and unauthorized access. These access point sensors scan legal channels and (based on a WIPS policy settings) identify events potential threats to the managed network. These events are reported to the AirDefense WIPS server, which determines the action taken.
In addition to WIPS support, sensor functionality has now been added for the Extreme Network‘s locationing system. The ExtremeLocation system for Wi-Fi locationing includes WiNG controllers, and access points functioning as sensors. Within the Locationing architecture, sensors scan for RSSI data on an administrator-defined interval and send to a dedicated ExtremeLocation Server resource, as opposed to an ADSP server. The ExtremeLocation Server collects the RSSI data from WiNG sensor devices, and calculates the location of Wi-Fi devices for ExtremeLocation administrators.
Use this command to configure a policy defining the mode of scanning, the channels to scan (in case scan-mode is set to custom-scan), and the RSSI interval. For the sensor policy to take effect, use the policy either in the access point‘s RF Domain context or in the access point‘s device context.
Note
If a dedicated sensor is utilized with WIPS for rogue detection, any sensor policy used is discarded and not utilized by the sensor. To avoid this situation, use ADSP channel settings exclusively to configure the sensor and not the WiNG interface.sensor-policy <SENSOR-POLICY-NAME>
sensor-policy <SENSOR-POLICY-NAME>
| <SENSOR-POLICY-NAME> | Specify the Sensor policy name. If a sensor policy with the specified name does not exist, it is created. The name should not exceed 32 characters in length. No character spaces are permitted within the name. Define a name unique to the policy‘s channel and scan mode configuration to help differentiate it from other policies. |
nx9500-6C8809(config)#sensor-policy test nx9500-6C8809(config-sensor-policy-test)#? Sensor Policy Mode commands: custom-scan Channel configuration in Custom Scan channels no Negate a command or set its defaults rssi-interval-duration Configure the periodicity of sending RSSI info from sensor to server scan-mode Configure the Scan mode clrscr Clears the display screen commit Commit all changes made in this session do Run commands from Exec mode end End current mode and change to EXEC mode exit End current mode and down to previous mode help Description of the interactive help system revert Revert changes service Service Commands show Show running system information write Write running configuration to memory or terminal nx9500-6C8809(config-sensor-policy-test)#
| no | Removes an existing sensor policy |