3.1.1 About the Base Units Management page

Overview
Image 3–1 Overview page
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Menu pane. Selected menu is expanded and menu title is displayed in red. When different location are sub-locations are available, a tree will be shown.

The number behind the location indicates the number of Base Units in that location or sub location.

2

Overview Base Units of selected location branch.

The following information is displayed[2]:

  • The "Status" column of the Base Units grid contains an icon that shows if the device is working properly or not:

    • Green: both green check mark or green lock mean that the device is OK.

      • Green check mark: device works properly and communication protocol is HTTP.
      • Green hang lock: device works poperly and communication protocol is HTTPS
    • Blue check mark: Device is in Network Standby mode
    • Orange triangle with exclamation mark: Device is running with warnings (something is wrong with non-critical processes)
    • Red triangle with exclamation mark: Device is running with errors (something is wrong with critical processes)
    • Grey triangle with exclamation mark: Device is not available or not responding
  • Meeting room name, automatically added when connection is established.
  • Location, filled out while adding the Base Unit in XMS (virtual) Edge.
  • Hostname, automatically added when connection is established.
  • Model, automatically added when connection is established.
  • Software, automatically added when connection is established.
  • The column "In use", of the Base Units grid, contains one of the following icons:

    • A gray 'x' for a Base Unit that is not connected to a source, not sharing, nor ready to share.
    • A gray circle, Buttons are connected, or device is connected with a source but nothing is sharing.
    • A red spinning circle, if the device is connected to a source or Buttons are connected, and sharing.
    • nothing (empty), for devices unknown by XMS.
3

Page selection buttons. The added Base Units are displayed in pages.

To change a page, click on the arrow buttons next to the page indication or click in the page input field, enter the desired page and click ENTER.

4

Support and Update

  • Download Base Unit logs: to download the logging from a selected Base Unit.
  • Reboot Base Units: to reboot the selected Base Units.
  • Software update: to update the software of the selected Base Units.
  • Diagnose connection issues: to start the diagnostics of the selected Base Units.
5

Configure

  • Clone configuration: to clone the configuration from a selected Base Unit to multiple other Base Units of the same type.
  • Wallpaper: to change the wallpaper displayed by theBase Units
6Tool bar to export, add, edit or delete Base Units on the page.
7To start up the view/edit wizard to configure the Base Units.
Base Unit details

The overview page contains a first column with arrows. Click on that arrow to view more details such as serial number, total uptime, hostname, SSID, frequency and channel. The details displayed depend on the current mode of the Base Unit. If a Base Unit is integrated into the Corporate Network (using EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAP or WPA2-PSK) then specific details are displayed for each mode.

Base Unit selection

Click on a row to select the Base Unit. The row background turns into red. Multiple selection is possible by holding the CTRL button while selecting the desired rows. Or by clicking on the first row, holding down the SHIFT button and then clicking on the last one in the selection. All the Base Units in between the first selected and the last selected Base Unit are selected. Base Unit selection can also be done by clicking and holding down the left mouse button and dragging across the desired Base Units (this can also be done on mobile devices). All the Base Units can be selected by checking the check box from the top-left corner of the grid

About the status

XMS (virtual) Edge can communicate with the Base Unit, the status can be either:

Green check mark

Green lock

Blue check mark

Orange triangle

Red triangle

Gray triangle

XMS (virtual) Edge can not communicate with the device.


[2] Views differ with every account type