Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Real-Time Expert Display
Autodiscovering and Adding Addresses from the Address Book
The Address Book provides you with the ability to autodiscover access
points and mobile units on the wireless network. Then, you can add
discovered access points to the list of known addresses automatically.
To autodiscover access points and add them from the
Address Book:
1 Display the Address Book (Tools > Address Book).
2 Click Autodiscovery .
3 In the Autodiscovery Options dialog box, make sure the Discover
Mobile Units and Discover Access Points options are enabled.
4 Click OK.
Autodiscovery proceeds. Discovered addresses appear in the
Address Book.
5 Click Export AP in the Address Book’s toolbar to add the
addresses of all the access points in the Address Book to the list of
known access points.
Addresses not already in the Expert’s list are added. You can verify
that they have been added by displaying the Tools > Expert
Options > 802.11 Options tab or the Tools > Wireless >
Rogue dialog box. The Known Access Points in the Network
list will include the newly added addresses.
NOTE: Clicking Export AP only adds those addresses in the
Address Book with a Type value set to Access Point. Mobile units
are not added.
Adding Known Addresses Manually in the 802.11 Options Tab
Use the following procedure to add the MAC addresses of known wireless
units manually (either access points or mobile units) to the Expert’s list.
To add known addresses manually in the 802.11 Options tab:
1 Display one of the following dialog boxes/tabs:
Tools > Expert Options > 802.11 Options
Tools > Wireless > Rogue
2 Do you want to add the address of an access point or a mobile unit?
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