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Wireless Dashboard

The Wireless dashboard provides a centralized view of your wireless network environment through various widgets that show access point status, network threats, connected devices, alerts, security heartbeat information, and traffic usage insights.

Go to My Products > Wireless to see the dashboard.

Access Points

The Access Points widget shows information about your access points. You can see the following statuses:

  • Good: The access point is operational and functioning properly.
  • Issues: The access point is operational, but it has some problems.
  • Critical: The access point has an issue that requires attention.
  • Offline: The access point is offline.
  • Unconfigured: The access point is operational, but lacks configuration.

Click Access Points or More details to go to the Access Points page. See Access points.

Threats

The Threats widget shows information about neighborhood networks discovered during the past 24 hours through a network scan. Each network has one of the following statuses:

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

Click 7d to see networks discovered within the past week.

Click More details to go to the Sites page. See Sites.

Devices

The Devices widget shows you a graph containing the number of devices connected to your access points over the past 24 hours. The graph shows the following information:

  • A solid, dark blue line represents the devices connected to AP and APX series access points.
  • A broken, dark blue line represents the devices connected to AP and APX series access points with poor signal quality.
  • A solid, light blue line represents the devices connected to AP6 series access points.
  • A broken, light blue line represents the devices connected to AP6 series access points with poor signal quality.

You can click each element in the legend to add and remove them from the graph.

Click 7d to see devices connected to your access points over the past week.

Click Devices to see the details of all connected devices on the Devices page. See Devices.

Alerts

The Alerts widget shows you the alerts for your access points.

Click All to show all alerts.

Click Errors to show error and audit messages from the access points.

Click Warnings to show warnings, such as access points that are offline or not broadcasting.

Click Info to show info-level alerts, such as updates or information.

Click Alerts to go to the Alerts page. See Wireless Alerts.

Security Heartbeat

You can see the security status of your devices using Security Heartbeat. Security Heartbeat data is available only for APX series access points.

The security status can be one of the following:

  • Client at risk: Active malware detected.
  • Client might be at risk: Potentially unwanted application (PUA) or inactive malware detected.
  • Client is protected: No malware detected.
  • Missing Security Heartbeat™: The device is connected but isn't sending a heartbeat.
  • No Security Heartbeat™: Sophos Endpoint or Sophos Mobile Control isn't installed.

Note

If you assign an SSID with Synchronized Security turned on and a VLAN configured to an APX access point, it receives two IP addresses so the Security Heartbeat can function across the VLAN.

Usage Insight

You can see the traffic generated by the wireless devices connected to AP6 and APX series access points over the past 24 hours. It shows a pie chart and a list of the top traffic categories from your devices. You can hover over a slice to see the name and traffic generated by that category. You can also hover over each category in the list to highlight the corresponding section of the pie chart and see its details.

Click 7d to see the top traffic categories from your connected devices over the past week.