User guide

AirMagnet Spectrum XT User Guide
Chapter 5: Auto Pattern Detection and Custom Device Classification 51
Auto Pattern Detection and Custom Device Classification
Chapter 5:
Chapter Summary
This chapter discusses Auto Pattern Detection and Custom Device Classification, both
features enabling users to identify, classify, and analyze interferers beyond those devices
included in the software package.
• Auto Pattern Detection: The system identifies and lists persistent RF patterns that do
not match its database of interferers. The user may name and save the pattern in order
to have it show up as a named interferer in the future when that pattern is detected.
• Custom Device Classification: The user may create a custom signature of an RF pat-
tern in order to have it show up as a named interferer in the future when that pattern
is detected.
Auto Pattern Detection
During the course of an AirMagnet Spectrum XT session, if a particular RF pattern is
persistently detected, a list item is created in the “Interferers & Devices” area named “Auto
detect FFT Patterns.” This list item will show a sum count of the number of patterns detected.
The count may rise and fall depending on whether a detected pattern continues to be
persistent. See Figure 5-1.
Figure 5-1: Auto detected FFT pattern
This feature is somewhat different from the Custom Device Classification Manager in that
these patterns are defined by the system whereas you may manually define the pattern in the
Custom Device Classification Manager.
You may view the pattern(s) and create custom signatures of any patterns using the “Auto
detect – FFT Patterns” window.