User's Manual

hwc_mitigator.fm
A31003-W1050-U100-2-7619, March 2008
HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software V5 R1 , C20/C2400 User Guide
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Working with the Mitigator
Mitigator overview
9 Working with the Mitigator
This chapter describes Mitigator concepts, including:
• Mitigator overview
• Enabling the Analysis and data collector engines
• Running Mitigator scans
• Analysis engine overview
• Working with Mitigator scan results
• Working with friendly APs
• Maintaining the Mitigator list of APs
• Viewing the Scanner Status report
9.1 Mitigator overview
The Mitigator is a mechanism that assists in the detection of rogue APs. Mitigator
functionality does the following:
Wireless AP:
• Runs a radio frequency (RF) scanning task.
• Alternating between scan functions, providing its regular service to the
wireless devices on the network.
Note: If a Wireless AP is part of a WDS link you cannot configure it to act as a
scanner in Mitigator.
HiPath Wireless Controller:
• Runs a data collector application that receives and manages the RF scan
messages sent by the Wireless AP. RF data collector data includes lists of all
connected Wireless APs, third-party APs, and the RF scan information that
has been collected from the Wireless APs selected to perform the scan.