Observer - Wireless Network Monitoring

Wireless Network Security

Observer helps prevent and eliminate wireless security vulnerabilities by identifying critical items such as:

• Rogue access points
• Rogue clients
• Broadcasted SSIDs
• Incorrectly configured access points
• Virus and attack signatures
• Observer's wireless functionality also includes full decryption of WPA and WPA2 protocols.

Wireless Health Analysis

Wireless Site Survey
Determining optimal access point locations, verifying performance, and maintainingwireless communication is painless with Observer's Wireless SiteSurvey, which measures a variety of wireless metrics, including signal strength and quality, and data transfer rates.

Wireless Health Display
Observer investigates wireless performance at the packet level, providing an at-a-glance, heads-up display of wireless health. Statistics include utilization levels, CRC errors, and more.

Long-Term Trending Reports
Collect, store, view, and analyze network statistics over long periods of time for baseline comparison on components including frame type, control frames, management frames, data frames, speed, and signal strength.\

Wireless Experts, Triggers, and Alarms

Troubleshooting Experts
Observer's Expert Analysis quickly isolates wireless problems and provides solutions for many events, including:

• Unknown stations
• Spoofed MAC addresses
• Encryption disabled or enabled
• Authentication / de-authentication rates
• Whether access point using open system or shared key authentication
  

Triggers and Alarms
Observer notifies you about abnormal wireless activity, including:

• Unknown stations and access points
• Poor signal strength/quality
• Access point overload
• Access point with broadcasted SSID