Roam Analysis Settings

Wireless Analyzer Administrator Guide for Android

Tap

and select Roam Analysis Settings.

Go to

Analysis Mode

and select the mode of the roaming analysis to be performed by the Analyzer.

Select

Passive

mode and the Analysis produces reports and data only related to the device’s Roaming events (handing-off between Access Points), and further provides causes & reasons to Roaming performance issues and failures.

Select

Active

mode and the Analysis facilitates continuous synthetic ping traffic to a configurable destination. The synthetic traffic is automatically evaluated and produces an additional set of metrics. The ping traffic in this mode simulates continuous data traffic.

Profile Settings

is only applicable to Active mode and displays the following:

Current Status: Displays the current SSID status.

Current Selection: Tap

to select from a list of available SSIDs. When not connected to a WLAN network, this selection is required.

Go to

Session Name

to enter the desired session name.

When in

Advanced Settings

, the following menu appears:

Ping Destination Settings:

This setting is applicable only to Active mode. Select whether or not to generate traffic, the default being Generate Constant traffic. To manually set the IP, URL, or FQDN for the remote server, slide the switch for Use Gateway IP of SSID Network
to the OFF position.

Report Logger Level:

Select the analysis report level (default: INFO [info | warning | error]).

SD Card Storage:

Select a preference for an action which will be taken by the Analyzer if the storage space reaches 80% full:

Select the Only Display Live Data not saving anything going forward option when it is important to keep getting and viewing the live events during the test while the Report Logger is in the foreground, and to avoid deleting old saved data.

Select the Clear space for saving more data. Delete old data of current session option when it is less important to save old data an more important to save the new incoming data.

Session Storage Duration:

Select the maximum duration for which to save the latest ongoing new data, and any data beyond that duration will be recycled.

When in Active Analysis mode, the default is the

Clear Space for saving more data

. In Passive Analysis mode, the default is

Only Display Live Data

Analysis Duration:

This setting is only applicable to Active mode. Select the maximum duration that the Active analysis will run. The duration cannot be less than the Session Storage Duration of the SD Card Storage, if Active mode remains with its default of

Clear space for saving more data

Packets Viewer:

This setting is applicable only to Active mode. Select a packet category (default: WLAN Mgmt + Selective Data Packets) to determine which packets are posted in the Packet Viewer Tab.

Packet Capture Type:

When enabling the pcap capture, first select the category of Packet Types to be captured and stored in the sdcard. See more in Packet Capture.

Management Packets:

Select this option (default), to capture and save the device’s transmitted and received 802.11 Mgmt, plus EAP/EAPOL, DHCP, ARP, ICMP, and DNS.

All Packets:

Select this option to capture and save the Management Packets, as well as all the other device's transmitted and received 802.11 data traffic, for example all the device’s operating system and applications transmitted & received IP-unicast traffic data, as well as all received IP-multicast/broadcast traffic.

The All Packets selection requires a pre-provisioned password. In this setting, the stored packets are encrypted with the password in the sdcard. See Configuration.

Enable/Disable pcap capture:

Enable to capture and store packets, per the Packet Capture Type selection.