After you complete or skip the onboarding wizard, you can go to your dashboard settings by navigating to the three dots in the upper right corner and selecting Settings or using the keyboard shortcut 's.'
In the dashboard settings, you can create additional networks for your sensors to test.
Set up Wireless SSIDs and Wired Ethernet from the network settings page.
To configure your sensors to test a network, perform the following steps.
Navigate to the Network settings (Wireless or Wired), and in the Manage tab, add the network configuration. Make sure to include the network authentication details for the sensor to use.
Once the network has been created, navigate to the Assignment tab to assign the network to a group of sensors. Sensors will inherit the networks they need to test from the group.
Wireless Network Security Settings:
UXI supports three types of security configurations:
Open - is an open SSID with no authentication, or it could be captive portal authentication
Passphrase - This option can be used for SSIDs that have PSK authentication
Enterprise - We support the following authentication methods for Enterprise SSIDs as per the below screenshot.
External Connectivity
Disabling external connectivity suppresses any errors related to external connectivity and prevents external tests from being executed.
Band Locking
Band locking can help with the following use cases:
Benchmarking the performance of 2.4 GHz vs. 5 GHz vs 6 GHz over time
Understanding whether specific issues are affecting a particular band, such as high channel utilization
Example of how to set up band-locking:
Under NETWORKS > Wireless > Create a new SSID and give the SSID an Alias ending with the band you would like to test.E.g. SSID = AT-GuestAlias = Guest-2.4GHz
Click on Advanced > Band Locking and move the slider from Auto to 2.4, Click Save.
Use the same steps to band lock to 5 GHz.
From the Assignment page, you can select one of the networks and assign the network to a group of sensors.
Note: sometimes the AP will force you to join 5GHz, so it is advisable to disable band steering mode on the AP if you want to test band steering
Proxy Configuration
We support auto or manual proxy configuration. In networks where complex proxy rules are maintained through common Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) files, we have support for the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD). In this mode, the sensor is able to retrieve the PAC file on the network using WPAD, from a URL, or by manually uploading it. Uploaded files must have UTF-8 encoding. You can read more about it in the release article. Furthermore, we also support NTLM proxy authentication. If you have needed your sensor to authenticate against a proxy server that requires NTLM, this is now possible on wired and wireless networks.
If your network performs SSL inspection and your application tests are producing SSL errors, you can send in man-in-the-middle (MITM) certificates for a network to support@capenetworks.com. The support team will open a case, and someone from engineering will add the MITM certificate to the network, so all sensors testing the network will trust it.
SSID Aliasing: https://help.capenetworks.com/en/articles/1947194-ssid-aliasing
BSSID Locking: https://help.capenetworks.com/en/articles/1926943-bssid-locking
Below are links to the rest of the onboarding series:
1. Getting Started
3. Onboarding - Sensor Grouping and Hierarchy
4. Onboarding - Testing
5. Onboarding - Thresholds
6. Onboarding - Alerts
7. Onboarding - Company
8. Onboarding Dashboard Troubleshooting