Access Points and Switches Management Administration Guide

Table of Contents

RF Monitor

The SonicOS RF Monitoring provides real-time threat monitoring and management of SonicPoint radio frequency traffic. It also provides a centralized system for collecting of RF threat data and traffic statistics, making it easy to manage RF capabilities directly from the SonicWall security appliance gateway.

TheAir Marshal > RF Monitor page provides a central place to select RF signature types, view discovered RF threat stations, and add detected threat stations to a watch list.

The RF Monitor table displays the information about Time,Client, Type,Subtype, Vendor,Radio Type,RSSI,Rate, Encrypt, and Device MAC/Name.

RF Monitor is disabled by default.

To activate RF Monitor

  1. Navigate to Policies > AP Policies.
  2. Select the AP policy for which you want to enable RF monitoring.
  3. Navigate to Policies > Policy Hierarchy > WIDP.
  4. Activate RF Monitoring.
  5. Change the duration of the Measurement Interval (Seconds) if you want it to be different from the default value.
  6. Click OK.

Toolbar options

The toolbar above the table has the below options.

Option Description
Click on this icon to Refresh or reload the page.
Click on this icon to select the required columns. This helps you to view or hide the selected columns.
You can specify the time period for the list to display using the Time Slider tool next to search icon till the current time.

To Filter in RF Monitor

Click the filter icon to view the available filters.

For more information on other filter options refer to Filter Options