About SSID Monitoring
By default, Cisco DNA Assurance monitors and collects telemetry data about all SSIDs. However, there might be scenarios where you don't want to monitor all the SSIDs in your network. For example, when providing guest or public Wi-Fi services as in retail, transportation, or hospitality use cases, user counts can be very high. In such scenarios, you might want to turn off monitoring for these SSIDs, while continuing to collect rich data for corporate SSIDs from the same infrastructure.
You can enable or disable SSID monitoring for specific SSIDs without impacting the SSID configuration or wireless connection to these SSIDs. There’s no impact on the SSID functionality in APs. Wireless clients continue to connect to these SSIDs and all other SSIDs, as has been configured. Clients on monitored SSIDs continue to have detailed data available on the Client 360 window.
When an SSID isn’t monitored, Cisco DNA Assurance doesn’t collect its client data. So, detailed data and charts aren’t available for these clients on the Client 360 window. Also, other data such as client health, client-specific issues, and intelligent capture aren't available for these clients. In addition, the dashlets on the Client Health window don’t include data from clients in unmonitored SSIDs.
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SSID monitoring is not supported on Cisco AireOS Wireless Controllers. In Cisco AireOS Wireless Controllers, Cisco DNA Center drops the telemetry data for the SSIDs for which monitoring is disabled. |
From the top-left corner, click the menu icon and choose to view the SSID Monitoring window, from SSID Monitoring window, you can do the following:
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View SSID monitoring settings.
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Enable or disable SSID monitoring for specific SSIDs. For more information, see Configure SSID Monitoring Settings.
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View and manage the provisioning request for the configured SSID monitoring action. For more information, see View the Provisioning Status for SSID Monitoring.