What's New

This release supports additional features for managing FortiGate controllers through FortiWLM MEA.

• Reporting
• Detailed Dashboards
• AP Dashboard
• Trend Dashboards
• Interfering SSIDs
• Locationing
• 1 Minute Polling

Reporting

The FortiWLM provides standard report types for network analysis, user configuration, device optimization, and network monitoring on multiple levels. These standard report types assist you to generate, schedule, and view a report. You can create and customize report types and save them as templates. You can select and combine multiple report categories and the subsequent report types to generate a single report.

Detailed Dashboards

The detailed dashboards provide at-a-glance system information for controllers, APs, and stations.

• Controller - The controller dashboard screen displays an in-depth information about the controller’s activity. It provides the graphical representation of the Throughput Trend, Stations, Online APs, Offline APs, Critical Alarms, High-Noise Radios, High-Loss Radios, High-Loss Stations, Low-Signal Stations, and Rogue APs of the selected controllers that are managed by FortiWLM. The results for the controller are displayed in the upper graphs and results per radio is displayed in the lower set of graphs.
• APs - The AP dashboard screen displays an in-depth information about the AP activity. It provides the graphical representation of the wireless statistics such as Throughput, Stations, Noise Level, Loss%, and Channel Utilization% for each of the radio on AP and wired statistics for LAN1 and LAN2 interfaces such as inbound/outbound octets and input/output errors.
• Stations - The Stations dashboard displays the performance trends for a specific station. An intuitive graphical display of the Throughput, Signal Strength, Loss%, and Airtime Utilization trends are plotted for the selected station.

The data rate in the Stations detailed dashboard is now split into Data Rate (Rx) and Data Rate (Tx) displayed in the station summary.

AP Dashboard

The AP dashoard enhancement in this release delivers the following new fields. Navigate to Monitor > Detailed Dashboard > AP.

• Summary - The details of the selected AP are displayed, these include, the IP address, AP MAC address, serial number, click on the location icon to view the AP location map, the AP uptime, operational status, and the associated firmware version.
• Radio Summary - The wireless radio summary displaying the associated SSID, operating channel, and the operating Tx power. The summary is displayed for all radios of the selected AP.
• AP Trends - The trend result are displayed for CPU utilization and memory utilization percentages of the selected AP.

Trend Dashboards

The trend dashboards provide the aggregate global trend performance and controller error rates over a period of time. FortiWLM collects statistics from a controller and stores it in the database.

• Trend - The global trends and trends per controller are graphically represented in the trend dashboard. The global trends (all controllers) are displayed in the graphs on the top portion of the window such as Throughput , Stations, Online APs, Offline APs, Critical Alarms, High-Noise Radios, High-Loss Radios, High-Loss Stations, Low-RSSI Stations, and Rogue APs and trends per controller on the lower portion of the window.
• Long Term Trend - The long term trend dashboard displays the per-controller view or the aggregate-controller view (default view). It provides graphical representation of the Throughput , Controllers, APs, Stations, Rx/Tx (MB), and Alarms. The trend data for a maximum of one year and a minimum period of one hour for either all controllers or for one particular controller is displayed.

Interfering SSIDs

You can view the details of interfering SSIDs associated with an AP; the SSID name, related AP BSSID, channel, signal strength and the Radio ID are displayed in the AP dashboard. Navigate to Monitor > Overview > AP and click Intefering SSIDs.

To view the interfering SSID details, ensure that the AP radio is configured in the access point mode in FortiGate (Managed FortiAP Profile).

Locationing

Enable location service on this page and configure the following the FortiAP Profile in your FortiGate.

• Configure the WIDS profile for the AP radio.
• Configure the following parameters in Location Based Services > FortiPresence.
  • Project Name: FWLM
  • Password: The secret key displayed in Administration > System Settings > Maintenance.
  • FortiPresence server IP: FortiWLM IP address.
  • FortiPresence server Port: 14013
  • Report Rogue APs: Enable
  • Configure Report transmit frequency (seconds)

Note: A minimum of 3 APs must be placed in the map for locationing service to detect them.

The locationing feature now plots the current location of all rogue APs on the floor map imported into the FortiWLM. Navigate to Monitor > Overview > Location Services.

1 Minute Polling

You can now configure the Statistics Polling Interval at 1 minute. Navigate to Administration > System Settings > Maintenance.

Notes:

• After modifying the polling interval (1 minute to 10 minutes or vice versa), it is recommended NOT to refer to the old data.
• When you upgrade FortiWLM MEA to this release, the default statistics polling interval is 10 minutes and in new installations of this release the default is 1 minute.