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The MSE admin UI home page displays at-a-glance views of the most important data in your network, status of various services, and allows you to configure MSE system settings. You can also view the Beta version of various applications such as the Health and Data Accuracy Tool by choosing admin > enable beta features in the top right side of the page.
To launch the MSE admin user interface, follow these steps:
1. Launch the MSE admin user interface (UI). To launch it, type https://mseip/mseui in the Web Browser or you can launch it from the Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) by clicking the MSE name link from Services > Mobility Services Engines page.
2. Enter the username and password.
3. Click Sign In.
This section briefly describes the different services that the Cisco MSE supports within the overall Cisco Unified Wireless Network (CUWN):
All the available services are listed in the MSE admin UI home page under the Services group box.
CMX Analytics —The CMX Analytics service analyzes wireless device location information in a particular network. The CMX Analytics service uses the data provided by the Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE) to calculate the location of Wi-Fi devices in the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). When a wireless device is enabled in a network, it transmits probe request packets to identify the wireless network in its neighborhood. Even after connecting to the access point in the WLAN, the client devices continue to transmit probe request packets to identify other access points for better quality of service. The access points gather these request and the associated RSSI from the various wireless devices and forwards them to the Wireless LAN Controller (WLC). The controller then forwards this information to the MSE.
The basic data that is collected from various APs, when analyzed, produces information and knowledge about the movement and behavior patterns of people who are using Wi-Fi devices in the building. For example, the building can be an airport, shopping mall, city center, and so on. The CMX Analytics service helps the airport authorities or the building owners to understand the movement of passengers or customer within their building. This helps them improve the signage, make changes to the under utilized areas, and so on.
Context Aware Service—Also known as Location service. This is the core service of the Mobility Services Engine (MSE) that turns on Wi-Fi client tracking and location API functionality. Allows MSE to simultaneously track thousands of mobile assets and clients by retrieving contextual information such as presence, location, telemetry data, and historical information.
CMX Connect & Engage—Connect and Engage Service—Formerly known as Browser Engage Service. The CMX Connect and Engage service provides connect, a guest Wi-Fi on-boarding solution, zone, and message configuration for the CMX Software Development Kit (SDK).
Mobile Concierge—Mobile Concierge enables the Cisco Mobility Services Advertisement Protocol (MSAP). This protocol enables direct communication between the MSE and mobile devices, allowing content to be pushed directly to the mobile device pre-association. This functionality is dependent on the mobile device supporting 802.11u and MSAP.
Wireless Intrusion Prevention—Provides wireless-specific network threat detection and mitigation against malicious attacks, security vulnerabilities, and sources of performance disruption within the CUWN infrastructure. wIPS visualizes, analyzes, and identifies wireless threats, and centrally manages mitigation and resolution of security and performance issues using Cisco monitor mode and Enhanced Local Mode (ELM) Access Points. Proactive threat prevention is also supported to create a hardened wireless network core that is impenetrable by most wireless attacks.
To enable or disable the MSE services, follow these steps:
1. Launch the MSE Admin UI.
2. To enable any of the services, follow these steps:
3. To disable any of the services, follow these steps:
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Step 1 | Launch the MSE Admin UI. |
The MSE Admin UI home page appears. The following are the various services displayed in the Services group box: | ||
Step 2 | To enable any of the services, follow these steps: |
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Step 3 | To disable any of the services, follow these steps: |
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The admin UI is composed of the following web applications which serve as the front end for the services:
Using Data Accuracy Tool
Before you filter the devices using location tuning or device filters, you should do the following using Cisco Prime Infrastructure user interface:
For more information on synchronization and map editors, see chapter Monitoring Maps in Cisco Prime Infrastructure Classic View Configuration Guide.
To filter the devices outside the venue, follow these steps:
Step 1 | Launch the MSE admin UI. |
Step 2 | Choose admin > Enable Beta Features to view the beta features. |
Step 3 | Click the
Data Accuracy
Tool tile.
The location tuning page appears. |
Step 4 | Choose a campus name from the drop-down list. |
Step 5 | Choose a building name from the drop-down list. |
Step 6 | Choose a building floor from the drop-down list. |
Step 7 | Click
Show Map.
The floor map appears. |
Step 8 | Click Inside Training. |
Step 9 | Enter the comma separated MAC addresses of the devices roaming inside the perimeter area drawn on the floor. |
Step 10 | Click
Start Data
Collection to start collecting data for the devices within the perimeter
area.
Minimum 100% data collection is required to create a model. 100 % represents at least 20 RSSI reading per operational AP present on the floor. |
Step 11 | Click Outside Training. |
Step 12 | Enter the comma separated MAC addresses of the devices roaming outside the area drawn on the floor. |
Step 13 | Click Start Data Collection to start collecting data for the devices outside the perimeter area. Minimum 100% data collection is required to create a model. This 100% is considering the inside training data also. |
Step 14 | Click
Create Model
to create a model based on the collected data.
To enable Create Model button, you should stop the data collection when 100% data collection is complete. To delete all the collected data, click Delete Data. |
To filter the devices, follow these steps:
Step 1 | Launch the MSE admin UI. |
Step 2 | Choose admin > Enable Beta Features to view the beta features. |
Step 3 | Click the Data Accuracy Tool tile. |
Step 4 | Click the Device Filters tab. |
Step 5 | Choose a building name from the drop-down list. |
Step 6 | Choose a building floor from the drop-down list. |
Step 7 | Choose a zone in the floor. |
Step 8 | Select Max RSSI Threshold from the report drop-down list. |
Step 9 | Enter the comma separated MAC addresses of the devices available in the selected zone. |
Step 10 | Select a RSSI threshold value. |
Step 11 | Click
View.
It takes up to 10 minutes to show the data. You will be able to view the RSSI report for the devices. |
To filter the devices, follow these steps:
Step 1 | Launch the MSE admin UI. |
Step 2 | Choose admin > Enable Beta Features. |
Step 3 | Click the Data Accuracy Tool tile. |
Step 4 | Click the Device Filters tab. |
Step 5 | Choose a building name from the drop-down list. |
Step 6 | Choose a floor of the building. |
Step 7 | Choose a zone in the floor. |
Step 8 | Choose Stationary Devices and MAC Addresses from the report drop-down list. |
Step 9 | Enter the comma separated MAC addresses of the devices available in the selected zone. |
Step 10 | Select the duration. |
Step 11 | Click
View.
You will be able to view the MAC addresses of the located devices. This allows you to download the report of stationary devices. |
Monitoring System and Network Health
To view health dashboard for a specific mobility services engine, follow these steps:
Step 1 | Choose Services > Mobility Services. |
Step 2 | Click the name of the mobility services engine you want to configure. |
Step 3 | Click Health tile from the MSE admin UI home page. |
Step 4 | Choose
Application Statistics > Health Dashboard.
You can view the utilization percentage of CPU, system memory, disk space, analytics CPU, analytics memory, CAS CPU and CAS memory. |
To view CAS latency statistics information for a specific mobility services engine, follow these steps:
Step 1 | Choose Services > Mobility Services. |
Step 2 | Click the name of the mobility services engine you want to configure. |
Step 3 | Click Health tile from the MSE admin UI home page. |
Step 4 | Choose
Application Statistics > CAS Latency Statistics.
You will be able to view the CAS latency statistics, CAS queue delay and CAS calculation time. |
To view notification statistics information for a specific mobility services engine, follow these steps:
Step 1 | Choose Services > Mobility Services. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 2 | Click the name of the mobility services engine you want to configure. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 3 | Click Health tile from the MSE admin UI home page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 4 | Choose
Application Statistics > Notification Statistics.
The following table lists fields in the Notification Statistics page.
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To view vital statistics information for a specific mobility services engine, follow these steps:
Step 1 | Choose Services > Mobility Services. |
Step 2 | Click the name of the mobility services engine you want to configure. |
Step 3 | Click Health tile from the MSE admin UI home page. |
Step 4 | Choose
Application Statistics > Vital Statistics.
You can view the graphical representation of vital statistics over a period of time. |