Alarm Configuration

ADSP generates alarms when certain events or conditions occur in your wireless LAN that violate a policy or performance threshold. The Alarm Types feature allows you to configure alarms for your network environment. ADSP alarms are categorized into nine types so that you can easily identify them. To access this feature, go to Configuration > Operational Management > Alarm Configuration.

Each alarm type is broken down into sub-types and then the actual alarm. The alarm types are:

• Anomalous Behavior - Devices that operate outside of their normal behavior settings and generate events that could indicate anomalous or suspicious activity.
• Bluetooth - Bluetooth monitoring is an unique capability in AirDefense for 24x7 monitoring of Bluetooth devices in Enterprise environments.
• Exploits - Events caused by a potentially malicious user actively interacting on your Wireless LAN using a laptop/PC as a wireless attack platform.
• Infrastructure - Events that are generated based on the SNMP traps received from the infrastructure devices.
• Performance - Wireless LAN traffic that exceeds set performance thresholds for devices.
• Platform Health - Events that provide information about the state of the AirDefense Services Platform and the sensors which report back to the appliance.
• Policy Compliance - Wireless LAN traffic that violates established or default policies for devices.
• Proximity - Proximity Awareness & Analytics provide a number of key functions, including Presence Services, Wi-Fi Analytics, Locationing (RTLS) Services, and Historic Location Analysis.
• Reconnaissance - Monitors and tracks external devices that are attempting to monitor your Wireless LAN.
• Rogue Activity - Unauthorized devices detected by ADSP which pose a risk to the security of your network.
• Vulnerabilities - Devices that are detected to be susceptible to attack.

To configure an alarm, you must use the tree to drill down to the alarm and then make changes (see Configuring Alarms ) or you can use Alarm type search. Just start typing related text until you see the alarm you are searching for.