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Sites

Specify locations to easily manage your access points.

Create multiple floor plans for sites to see the best places to mount access points or to get an overview of your installed access points.

Go to My Products > Wireless > Sites and set up your locations. See Create a site.

Neighborhood Networks

The Neighborhood Networks tab shows every network within the range of the selected site's access points. This also includes networks that Sophos Central doesn't manage. You can filter the scanned networks to show All, Rogue, Trusted, Untrusted, Advanced Impersonate, Evil Twin, BSSID Impersonate, SSID Impersonate, or Adhoc. Use the following options:

  • Scan: You can scan all online networks in the supported channels of an access point. Devices connected to the network will experience network interruption for three to five minutes during a scan.
  • Select Classification: You can customize or mark a scanned network as Rogue, Trusted, Untrusted, Advanced Impersonate, Evil Twin, BSSID Impersonate, SSID Impersonate, or Adhoc.
  • Clear Custom Classification You can clear or undo the custom classification.

Neighborhood SSIDs

Neighborhood SSIDs are classified as follows:

  • Trusted: Network that belongs to your Sophos Central account.
  • Untrusted: Network that doesn't belong to your Sophos Central account. Untrusted networks usually aren't malicious, but they may cause interference.
  • Rogue: Untrusted network connected to your secured wired access point network.
  • SSID Impersonate: Network that spoofs the network name of your access point.
  • BSSID Impersonate: Network that spoofs the hardware address of your access point.
  • Evil Twin: Network that spoofs the network name and the hardware address of your access point.
  • Advanced Impersonate: Network that spoofs your access point's network name and unique protection code.
  • Adhoc: A peer-to-peer network.

Every access point scans for neighborhood SSIDs once during the startup process. For example, when you restart an access point or install a new firmware update. If you turn on dynamic background channel selection, access points scan for neighborhood SSIDs regularly.

To show neighborhood SSIDs, turn on Rogue Access Point detection in My Products > Wireless > Settings.

Floor plans

Restriction

AP and APX series only.

Use floor plans to set detailed locations for access points. Upload a floor plan as an image file (PDF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, or WBMP) and position the access points. See Create a floorplan.