User guide

24 Chapter 3: AirMagnet Spectrum XT User Interface
AirMagnet Spectrum XT User Guide
Spectrum-WiFi Summary
Below the toolbar, on the right-hand side of AirMagnet Spectrum XT’s user interface is the
Spectrum-WiFi Summary. As its name suggests, this parts of the screen provides an overall
summary of spectrum and/or WiFi data that AirMagnet Spectrum XT has captured on your
network. As shown in Figure 3-3, the Spectrum-WiFi Summary consists of three parts:
Channel Summary, Device List, and Channel Devices/Device Pattern, each showing a specific
type of data.
Channel Summary
The upper part of the Spectrum-WiFi Summary is Channel Summary. It summarizes the
various energy readings captured on each of the channels in the selected radio band. See
Figure 3-3.
Figure 3-3: Channel Summary
The channels shown here vary, depending on the option you select from the Band menu on
the toolbar. The data are from all sorts of devices that are operating on each of the channels.
They include both WiFi devices and non-WiFi devices such as bluetooth devices, microwave
ovens, and fluorescent lights that emit energy. You can see graphical presentations of the
same data in the spectrum and WiFi graphs on the right-hand side of the screen. If you want
to focus your attention on a particular channel in the graphs, simply select (click) the channel
of your interest here. The selected channel will become highlighted in the graphs on the right.
15 Help Contains the following submenus:
• Content - opens the Content tab of the online Help.
• Search - opens the Search tab of the online Help.
• About - open the About AirMagnet Spectrum XT dialog box which
contains the following three tabs:
• AirMagnet Spectrum XT - shows basic information about
AirMagnet Spectrum XT.
• License - shows your AirMagnet Spectrum XT license information.
• Debug - provides an option for capturing sampling data needed for
debugging.
Table 3-2: AirMagnet Spectrum XT Menus/Tools
ID Tool Name Description