User's Guide

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Introduction
AirTight Management Console is a HTML 5 based user interface using which you can configure and
monitor AirTight WIPS and/or AirTight Wi-Fi server to access the AirTight Cloud Services.
HTML 5 makes AirTight Management Console compatible with most browsers and operating systems.
AirTight Management Console is intuitive and easy to use. It can be configured with ease to suit your
WIPS and/or Wi-Fi needs.
The Console is divided into 7 sections - Dashboard, Locations, Devices, Events, Forensics,
Configuration, and Reports.
AirTight Management Console can be configured from the Configuration section. You can define and
manage users, configure and manage WIPS settings, Wi-Fi access settings, integration settings for
WLAN, integration settings for enterprise security management servers etc from the configuration section.
The Dashboard section provides a graphical view of the WIPS and/or Wi-Fi implementation. It offers you
the flexibility to choose from a good number of graphs related to the access points, clients on your
wireless network, as well as the networks detected by WIPS sensors. Details of wireless threats to the
network can be seen on the WIPS widgets.
Apart from the pie chart or bar graph representation, the widget data can be viewed as a tabular
representation by clicking the icon present on the top of widgets. You can alternate between tabular
view and pie chart/bar graph view. This means that if you are in the pie/graph view, you will see the
icon. If you are in the table view, you will see the or icon, depending on whether the alternate
view is represented as a pie chart or bar graph.
The widget data is presented in the last-viewed format when you log in to AirTight Management Console
the next time.
AirTight Management Console facilitates the creation of locations. These locations could be various
buildings in your campus or the different floors or levels in your office space. You can create and manage
your retail or office locations using the Locations section. You can attach a layout to each floor in the
office space. You can then define WIPS / Wi-Fi policies specific to these locations.
All APs, AirTight devices, sensors, smart devices are seen under the Devices section. Apart from the
actual devices, the devices section also displays a list of networks detected by the WIPS sensors.
The Events section displays the events detected by the WIPS implementation.
The Forensics section lists AP-based threats and client-based threats in a user friendly format. You can
drill down into the wireless threats using the forensics section.
The Reports section facilitates generation of various built-in and custom reports. These reports comprise
various compliance reports and reports related to devices in the network and events occurring in the
network. You can schedule reports and generate analytics data using the Reports section.
Following are the salient features of the AirTight Management Console.
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Intuitive, portable and easy-to-use HTML5 UI