Using Cisco Business Wireless Access Point GUI

This chapter contains the following sections:

Cisco Business Wireless GUI Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the Cisco Business Wireless (CBW) Access Point GUI, and a description of the navigation pane links and basic functions.



  1. The Header toolbar is where the feature interface is displayed. See the Header toolbar table below for details.

  2. The Navigation pane provides access to the Cisco Business Wireless features. Each of these main feature tabs comprises of sub-level tabs. Click to expand and view the sub-level tabs. See the Navigation Pane Options table below for details.

  3. The Work pane is the area where the features interface is displayed. When you click an option in the Navigation pane, its corresponding window opens in this area.

Table 1. Cisco Business Wireless Access Point Home Page

Header toolbar

Icon

Description

A hamburger icon (toggle button) for expanding and collapsing the navigation pane.

Product Name

The header title of the web interface indicates the AP or Mesh Extender model on which the integrated CBW functionality is currently operating.

Click this icon to view the Cisco Business Access Point or Mesh Extender Online Help documentation.

Click this icon to search for an AP or client using its MAC address.

A notification icon that indicates if there was an incident of system crash or if a core dump is present.

This download icon indicates when a new software update is available for your CBW APs on cisco.com. Click this icon to redirect to the software update page in the UI and download the latest firmware.

Click this icon to save the current CBW AP configuration to the NVRAM. For more details, see Saving the Primary AP Configuration.

Click this icon to toggle between Standard View and Expert View, which provides access to advanced options. The default is set to standard view.

When in Standard View the arrows are green and will change to blue when you are in Expert View.

Click this mail icon to send your feedback or request for new features to Cisco Business Wireless Team.

Click this gear icon to view the current system information, or to log off the Primary AP web interface. It also specifies the username of the user who is logged into the application.

Navigation Pane Options

The Navigation pane provides options to access the main Cisco Business Wireless AP and Mesh Extender features. Each of these options comprises several sub-options used to perform various other tasks.

Table 2. Navigation Pane Options
Icon Name Description

Monitoring

The Monitoring feature allows the Primary AP to monitor WLANs and all the connected devices on the wireless network. For more details, refer to About the Cisco Business Wireless AP Monitoring Service.

Wireless Settings

The Wireless Settings page is used to administer associated APs, manage WLANs, WLAN user accounts, and guest user accounts.

For more details, refer to About WLANs in CBW Access Point Network.

Management

The Management page allows you to set management access parameters, manage admin accounts, manage network time, and perform software updates.

For more details, refer to Setting Up Management Access Interface.

Services

This page is only available in Expert View.

The Services page provides the mDNS service discovery feature and the Cisco Umbrella network security feature.

For more details, refer to About Multicast Domain Name System.

Advanced

The Advanced page provides the capability to set SNMP, syslog, and log configuration settings, and perform a reset to factory default.

For more details, refer to the Advanced.