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Top Sessions by MAC Address Monitor

The Top Sessions by MAC Address monitor provides summary and detailed information about the sessions within the node you selected in the View pane that use the most bandwidth. This monitor is available in the Client tab.

This monitor includes only wireless network sessions, not sessions on wired connections. If the node you selected in the View pane contains only wired sessions, this monitor does not appear. If the node contains both wired and wireless sessions, only the wireless sessions appear in the monitor.

This topic describes:

Top Sessions

The summary view of the Top Sessions by MAC Address monitor displays a bar chart of the sessions within the node you selected in the View pane that consume the most bandwidth. The vertical axis shows the session MAC addresses. The horizontal axis shows different information depending on the time period you select in the list in the title bar:

  • If you select the Current time period, the horizontal axis shows the sessions incremental data usage.

  • If you select any time period other thanCurrent, the horizontal axis shows the users total data usage.

You can mouse over a bar to see more information about that user. You can select which SSID to monitor from the Choose SSID list.

Top Session by MAC Details

The Top Session by MAC Details window displays detailed information about the top sessions within the node you selected in the View pane.

To change the number of top users displayed, select a number from the Top N list in the upper right corner.

To change the time period for which data is shown, select a time period from the time period list. By default, the Current time period is selected. When Current is selected, the data from the most recent polling period is shown. When any time period other than Current is selected, the data for the entire selected time period is shown.

The following table describes the columns that appear in Top Session By MAC Details table.

Table 1: Top Session Details
Field Description
Username

The username of the client.

To copy the text in this table cell: Click the cell, highlight the text, right-click the cell, and select Copy from the context menu.
MAC Address

The MAC address of the client.

To copy the text in this table cell: Click the cell, highlight the text, right-click the cell, and select Copy from the context menu.
Number of Sessions The number of sessions running.
AP Name Name of the wireless access point to which the client is connected.
AP ID ID of the wireless access point to which the client is connected.
Incremental Data Usage (KBytes) The sessions current incremental data usage. Appears only when the Current time period is selected.
Total Data Usage (KBytes) The sessions total data usage. Appears when any time period other than Current is selected.

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