Orion NPM is a very useful application for monitoring your wireless infrastructure. It can tap into any 802.11 IEEE compliant wireless controllers or access points and provide critical information such as an access point's status, radio channels, Wi-Fi utilization, connected client details, rogue access points, signal strength and power, and more. The following screenshot displays some of the information that is captured by Orion NPM.
There are three different types of wireless devices that can be monitored with Orion NPM:
Wireless autonomous access points
Wireless controllers
Wireless thin APs
Wireless autonomous access points , or thick or heavy access points, are wireless devices that can be managed and configured individually. Wireless thin APs depend on some type of centralized management device, called a wireless controller or wireless LAN controller, to retrieve its configuration. And the final type is the wireless controller itself, which is a centralized management server for...