Report Categories

The following list provides information about the types of report under each category of the report. For information about how to configure the Context, Transport Type, Report Order, Top N Count, Classify On, Report Subtype, Report Period, Recurrence, and Report Information for a report, see Report Configuration Options.

  • Clients
    • Client Inventory—The Client Inventory report provides information about the total number of clients and the type of connected networks. This information aids the administrators in planning for scalability and evaluates the deviations from the baseline. When you generate the report at the group context, you can filter the data by SSID Service Set Identifier. SSID is a name given to a WLAN and is used by the client to access a WLAN network or Role for IAPs, Campus APs, and Remote APs. The report displays the client details summarized by all aggregation fields and includes the following details:

      • Client count by SSID

      • Client count by role

        Currently, Roles are not displayed for Remote APs and Campus APs . Use the Custom field to specify the role name and generate the Client Inventory report for Remote APs and Campus APs .

      • Client count by connection mode

      • Client count by connection type

      • Client count by OS

      • Client count by vendors

  • Client Session—The Client Session report monitors the sessions of all the users in the network and provides insights related to usage analysis and connectivity patterns. The report also projects the WLAN Wireless Local Area Network. WLAN is a 802.11 standards-based LAN that the users access through a wireless connection. user experience to assist the user in measuring the efficiency of the deployed networks. When you generate the report at the group context, you can filter the data by SSID or Role for IAPs, Campus APs, and Remote APs. The report displays the details of client sessions for the SSIDs provisioned on Instant APs and includes the following details:

    • Guest—Displays the guests and guest session details for all the SSIDs for a specific time period. The Guest report provides visibility for all the users associated to the guest network that assists the user in conducting campaigns and also provides analytics of the guest users in the network.

      Guest report does not support location based filtering for any selected device group, site, or label to ensure end user privacy protection.

  • Summary—Displays the details about the wireless and wired clients, and the usage details of the wireless and wired clients over a time period of one year. The Summary reports assists the user in measuring the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) trends over a time period of one year that aids the user in planning for scalability.

    In the Summary report, you can choose to generate a report from Trends such as Unique clients per day, Clients per SSID, Unique client sessions per day, Average client sessions per day, Average clients per day, and Usage over time. The Average clients per day is the number of concurrent users at a given time (updated every five minutes). Unique clients per day is the total number of clients that were seen for that day. For example, consider a scenario where four clients were connected in a day, and after every hour, one client disconnected and another was connected. Then, the count for Average clients per day was four and Unique clients per day was 27 (3+24 =27).

    You can further chose to generate a report form Top N Widgets such as Top clients by usage, Top OS by usage, Top APs by usage, Bottom APs by usage, Top sites by WLAN usage, and Bottom sites by WLAN usage. The Top sites by WLAN usage and Bottom sites by WLAN usage options are only available under Top N widgets section, when you select All in the Groups context level. You can choose Top 5, Top 10, Top 25, or Top 50 from the Show Results drop-down list to view the data for top 5, top 10, top 25, or top 50 widgets. The report displays wireless and wired clients, and wireless and wired usage for one year and includes the following details:

    • Usage

      • Total Data Transfer, Total Data Downloaded, and Total Data Uploaded

    • Unique clients per day

    • Average clients per day

    • Clients per SSID

    • Unique client sessions per day

      • The Summary report considers any change in the connectivity of a client connected to an AP as an unique session for the session count and calculates the Unique Client Sessions Per Day.

    • Average client sessions per day

    • Usage over time

    • Top N Widgets—Top 5, Top 10, Top 25, or Top 50

    • Top OS by usageTop APs by usage

    • Bottom APs by usage

    • Top sites by WLAN usage

    • Bottom sites by WLAN usage

      • Summary report is supported from Aruba Central 2.5.2 onwards and the data is available only after an upgrade to version 2.5.2 or later. Data prior to the 2.5.2 upgrade is not available in the report.

  • Infrastructure

    • Capacity Planning—The Capacity Planning report provides information about the subscription A business model where a customer pays a certain amount as subscription price to obtain access to a product or service. utilization and most used devices in the network that assists the administrator to add more devices in a specific location to enhance the scalability and to increase the uplink capacity of the switching infrastructure. The report displays the throughput and client density information for devices provisioned in Aruba Central and includes the following details:

      • Subscription Utilization
        • Total Subscription, Used subscriptions, and Available subscriptions
      • Top 25 APs by usage
      • Top 25 switches by usage
      • Top 25 APs by peak clients (only for IAPs)
      • Top 25 APs by average clients (only for IAPs)
    • Configuration & Audit—Displays the configuration and audit logs for all the device management, configurations, and user management events triggered in Aruba Central. The Configuration & Audit report aids the user in tracking the configuration changes in the network that assists in tracking the deviations from the IT policies. The context available for this report is only Groups and Show overrides option under Audit Report. The report displays the configuration and audit logs for all the device management, configurations, and user management events triggered in Aruba Central and includes the following details:
      • Configuration Audit Status
      • Aruba Switches Configuration Audit Status
      • Virtual Controllers Configuration Audit Status
    • Infra Inventory—Displays the inventory and subscription information for the devices that are online or offline during a specific time period. It has a consolidated summary of each device type with its model name and corresponding count for each site. The Infra Inventory report aids the user in maintaining a record of the infrastructure devices and validate the firmware versions compliance. The report displays the inventory and subscription information for the devices that are online during a specific duration and includes the following details:

      • Subscription Utilization

        • Total Subscription, Used subscriptions, and Available subscriptions

      • Subscription Keys

      • Number of APs

      • Number of Switches

      • Number of Controllers

      • Firmware Version Summary (AP)

      • Firmware Version Summary (Switch)

      • Firmware Version Summary (Controller)

      • Devices by Site

      • Model and Firmware version (AP)

      • Model and Firmware version (Switch)

      • Model and Firmware version (Controller)

      • AP interfaces summary

    • Network—Displays the summary details of the network that aids the user in measuring the availability of every device in the network and projects compliance to the defined Network SLAs. The report displays the following parameters:

      The - (hyphen) symbol in the Uptime column in APs table indicate that the IAP is in offline status.

      • Top-Bottom Sites

        • Top 20 Sites By Availability

        • Bottom 20 Sites By Availability

        • Top 20 Sites By WLAN Usage

        • Bottom 20 Sites By WLAN Usage

      • Number of APs

        • Name, Model, Virtual Controller, IP Address, Uptime, and Availability
        • AP model

      • Number of Clients that you can filter based on SSIDs or Connection Types

        • Top Ten Clients by Usage

        • Device Types (Current)

      • Data Usage

        • Top Ten APs By Usage

        • Total Usage By SSID

        • Wireless Clients by SSID

        • Wired Clients

        • Peak and Average Wireless Data Usage

        • Peak and Average Wired Data Usage

      • Number of Switches

        • Switch Model

        • Top Ten Switches by Usage

        • Top Ten Ports by Usage

        • Switch Wired Peak and Average Uplink Stats

      • Number of Controllers

        • Controller Model

    • New Infra Inventory— The New Infra Inventory report provides detail of the infrastructure devices added in a time period that assists the administrator in validating the network deployment progress against the deployment schedule. The report displays the inventory and subscription information to the devices that are newly added in Aruba Central and includes the following details:

      • Subscription Utilization

        • Total Subscription, Used subscriptions, and Available subscriptions

      • Subscription Keys

      • APs Added by Model

      • APs Added by Group

      • Switches Added by Model

      • Switches Added by Group

      • Controllers Added by Model

      • Controllers Added by Group

      • Total APs

        • Name

        • Model

        • Controller AP Group

        • Virtual Controller

        • Date Added

        • IP Address

        • Uptime

      • Total Switches

        • Name

        • Model

        • Date Added

        • IP Address

        • Uptime

      • Total Controllers

        • Name

        • Model

        • Date Added

        • IP Address

        • Uptime

    • Resource Utilization—Displays the details of the infrastructure devices that exceeded the configured thresholds on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis in the report. The Resource Utilization report provides information about the devices with high CPU Central Processing Unit.  A CPU is an electronic circuitry in a computer for processing instructions. and memory utilization that assists the administrator in evaluating the deviations against the device utilization baselines. The report displays the details of infrastructure devices that exceeded the configured thresholds on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis and includes the following details:

      • Resource Utilization Threshold

      • CPU/Memory Compliance

      • Sites with Non-Compliant Devices

      • Non-Compliance by Device Type

      • Non-Compliant Access Points

      • Non-Compliant Switches

      • Non-Compliant Controllers

  • Security Compliance

    The security compliance reports are not supported for a single-node deployment.

    • PCI Compliance—Displays the PCI Compliance result with the number of violations and the PCI DSSv3.2 for an Instant AP. The PCI compliance report automatically executes some of the test cases of the PCI DSS test requirements and projects compliance results that reduces the manual efforts in validating the test cases. The report displays the following details:

      • Netmask

      • Compliance result as Fail or Pass with the number of violations

        • PCI DSSv3.2

        • Description

        • Result

    • RAPIDS—Displays the details of all the rogue devices in the network that aids the administrator about the possible threat and provides essential information needed to locate and manage the threat. The report contains the following details:

      • Name

      • Classification

      • Encryption

      • Last Detecting Device

      • First seen

      • Last seen

      • SSID

      • Radio

      • Radio MAC

      • Total Detecting Devices

  • Applications
    • AppRF—Displays the application usage report for a specific device group in the network. The AppRF report provides information about the application usage patterns and the web usage patterns in the network that assists the administrators in evaluating the deviations from the data usage patterns. The report displays the following widgets:

      • Top 10 applications accessed by the clients

      • Top 10 web categories accessed by the clients

      • Top 10 applications for device types

      • Others

        • Application

        • Total Bytes

Important Points to Note

  • When you select Custom range under Report Period, the Every day, Every week, and Every month options are not available under Recurrence.
  • For the Client Session report, the Show Detailed Report option is available only for a selected site. Selecting this option restricts the Report Period to Last Day and Custom Range only. Selecting custom range enables you to select a one day time range from the particular day till the last seven days only.
  • In the Infra Inventory report, select the Offline option in the Device Inventory section to generate the report with details of the devices that are offline. The PDF displays the distribution of inactive devices by the device type and CSV Comma-Separated Values. A file format that stores tabular data in the plain text format separated by commas. displays the list with additional information.
  • In the Configuration and Audit report with local overrides details, the count for device override is available only for the Groups context. To include local overrides column in the Configuration and Audit report, select the Show Override option in the Audit Report section.
  • When a new switch connects to Aruba Central, the Last Used at and Unused Since (Days) columns value is displayed as NA for all the ports that are down in the .csv file, that is created for the Switch Ports in the Switch Capacity Planning report. When a port continues to be in a down state, the Last Used at and Unused Since (Days) columns value will be displayed as NA for the time period of the generated report.