Chapter 4 – WebGUI Overview
04-WaveCore-WebGUI-Overview
In this chapter, we’ll take a deeper dive into the WebGUI and all the functionality within it.
So far, we’ve shown you a little bit of the WebGUI interface, and in this chapter, the intention is to get you more familiar with all the different sections. Here we’re seeing our WebGUI overview from the dashboard view. If we look at the left hand side, that’s our main navigation pane.
If there’s a section that’s highlighted, you’re gonna see that it’s gonna have the view you’re actually on. Right now, the dashboard is highlighted, so that’s why we’re seeing that in a lighter blue color., If there’s a little less than symbols. Then you do know that there is a submenu, so when you click on that, there’s gonna be a dropdown.
Looking at the menu across the top from the left to right. We show our Mac address and IP of the device we’re connected to. We have the dropdown in the middle, which is gonna be able to select in between our two devices. We have our CPU main memory and flash memory usage. Alarm and events from the bell. And then with the little person icon, we can change our password or log out.
The main section below that is our content menu. From here we can see our WaveCores and we’re gonna see our link status. If your link is green, you know that your system is up and running and they are tied together. Below that, we’re gonna show our ethernet port history. Any kind of data traffic that’s gonna be going through the ethernet you do have the option of looking at the 10 gig ethernet port or the SFP+ port individually. Below that is the wireless traffic, that’s gonna be the total traffic through the wireless link, whether if it’s through the ethernet or through the SFP+ port.
On the left side of the screen in the navigation pane under the monitoring section, if you click on device to drop down and show additional information, all visible parameters in the monitoring section can be viewed. The general section shows general device parameters, hardware status, device logging status, and network time protocol settings.
The ethernet section shows the wired management interface settings, port settings, and port statistics.
The wireless section shows the WaveCore radio status and settings. The Wi-Fi section shows the management 2.4GHz Wi-Fi settings for the selected WaveCore, as well as any connected Wi-Fi clients . The event section shows the WaveCore event and alarm log, which can be sorted by date, category, severity type, and message.
The statistics section provides historical transmit and receive data throughput for each ethernet interface and the wireless radio link.
Under the configuration section, click on network and user to drop down and show all menu options. Parameters in the configuration section require the WaveCore to be rebooted once all changes are made.
In the general section, the WaveCore name, description, and location could be updated For the WC-1000RH-US units, the country code was gonna be grayed out. WC-1000RH- RW will be able to select the appropriate country code that the WaveCore is gonna be deployed in. Other tabs allow you to configure the device logging, network time protocol settings, API authentication, and LED management. Under network, the ethernet section allows you to configure and change the management IP of the WaveCore and define the management vlan and change port and VLAN settings.
The wireless section shows the Mac address of the paired WaveCore node under the auto settings tab. Under the advanced setting tab, the bandwidth and channel can be configured. By default the channel is set to auto, so the controller node will scan the frequency band and determine the optimal channel to use. The Align metrics tab is utilized during installation to enable alignment mode, and easily view the signal strength of the WaveCore link. The wifi section allows you to adjust the local management, wifi radio settings, including the SSID and passphrase.
The user management section allows you to add, delete, or change user accounts. The change password section is used for changing the password to log into the WaveCore.
Under the system section, click on operations to drop down and show all menu options. In this section, the troubleshooting section includes tabs for conducting ping, trace route, and traffic tests.
Under firmware update, the firmware can be updated for the connected WaveCore node.
Under system operations, features include backup and restore functions, software reboot and factory reset as well as downloading system support logs to your local computer. .
Now that we’ve learned the basics from the prior slides, let’s take a look at a live demo of the WaveCore. As soon as we log in, we have our dashboard view. As we can see, we have our two units and our link shows that we are encrypted and established. New information from firmware version 1.1.0.24,
we do have our RX signal. That is shown on each state as well as if you have anything plugged in. So right now I have my RJ-45 plugged into my controller node. I don’t have anything connected on the other end. So they show as down. If I want to control anything right now with this red underscore and the icon being a little bit larger, that’s showing that this is the unit that I am communicating with.
If I want to change that, I can just click on the other icon. It’ll ask me to confirm that I wanna switch, and now I’m gonna be talking to my subordinate node, which I know just because of my IP addresses that I changed within these examples when I go to the far end node. You’ll notice this bar at the top, changes to red as well.
It’s not a matter of red being bad, it’s just the notification saying, Hey, I’m not talking to the local device that I logged into. I’m connecting to the far end. If you want to switch back, just click on the other node. Confirm, and you’re back to your original connected state. Below here we have our ethernet traffic.
If I did have anything connected to the RJ-45 or SFP, I’d be able to look at these individually and see the traffic that’s going across. And then finally, we have our wireless traffics. This would be a combination of the RJ-45 and SFP. If you were using both, you’d see a combination of the two. Everything that’s going across the wireless link.
Now if we want to take a look at our monitoring section, everything here is just viewable, nothing’s gonna be editable. If we click on device to drop that down, we’re gonna see our general section. Within general. We’ll see that we do have all our WaveCore name device location , the MAC address, serial type information.
We have our hardware status, device logging if it’s enabled or disabled.network time protocol, and the status of your LED settings, if it’s enabled or disabled. If we come over to ethernet, this is all gonna be ethernet based settings where you have your wired management interface.
During our testing, we changed it to a static ip. I’ve changed to 0.249. You can see all the settings that I managed. Your ethernet port speeds. Your port settings and port statistics are all visible here. If you click on wireless, this is gonna be strictly about your WaveCore radio itself.
It’s gonna tell us the far end Mac address, the MAC address that it’s attached to. Those two combined. Your current local MAC address and your far end Mac address are gonna be combined for your SSID just for its own communication. It’s gonna show you the channel selection, channel center and bandwidth that was utilized. Your RX power, device type being the controller node, the connection status and how long it’s been connected. Lastly, if we go to the wifi section, we’re gonna see everything about the wifi management under the 2.4 gigahertz.
Status of it’s enabled. The SSID is gonna be the avb_ and the MAC address of the current device. Your pass phrase will be blocked out . This is the IP address that you’ll connect to. And if I had any wifi clients connected, you’d be able to see that information here.
We’ll bring that back up. Under our event section, we can see any kind of alarms that’s occurred. You can filter by date, time, category, severity, type or message. Under statistics, you’ll have various histograms that you can look at for different timeframes, whether if you’re looking at the complete wireless radio or the ethernet whether if it’s the RJ-45 or the SFP+.
If we switch to the configuration section on the left hand side, click on network and user to show all the interface options clicking on general. Now we’re gonna see the same options that we had underneath the monitoring section, but now we’re able to make adjustments to these settings. Underneath general, you’ve got your name, description, location, and country code.
The country code, since I have a US version, it is gonna be grayed out. You’re not gonna be able to change this. If you have the RW model, which is the world version, you will be able to change your country code in this section. Device logging, you’ll have enabled or disabled by default, this is disabled. In your network time protocol, you can make your adjustments here if you’re using a rest API to be able to monitor the system. Here’s gonna be your authentication key. If you want to enable or disable the LEDs, this will turn off the LEDs on the side of the WaveCore except for the power LED. So it just keeps it to a minimum.
Coming down to the network section. If we click on ethernet, this is where we made our changes to decide whether if we are gonna be doing DHCP or static.
In our examples, we made it static and these were the settings that we used. Underneath port and VLAN settings, you can see the status of each. Both ports are enabled. If you wanted to do any VLAN tagging, if I wanted to make any changes, I can come in here and let’s say I wanted to disable my SFP port, easily click on the button and disable hit save.
You would just have to do a reboot afterwards. If I come down to the wireless, it’s gonna be all related to the WaveCore radio. So if you end up having to get an RMA, let’s just say a unit. Broke, rMAs being sent. Each unit, you’re gonna basically have the Mac address of what it’s paired to.
Right now I’m connected to the b0 MAC address. The last two digits, the f0 is my subordinate node. I would just have to make this, let’s say the new unit had the exact same Mac address except for g0. At the end, I would change just the g0. That would log into the g0 unit and make sure that b0 was set up for that so that way each one had the each other’s MAC address listed and then they’re paired ready to go.
That’s as easy it is to program these units underneath the advanced settings. If you wanted to change the bandwidth or your channel and frequency, this is where you’d make those adjustments. Under the Align metrics. This is where we saw our RSSI values, how we could start the alignment mode, and when you’re setting up your system, this is where you’re going to optimize the link. under the wifi, if you wanted to disable the 2.4 gigahertz wifi network, you could easily disable it. You can change the SSID, or you can change the default passphrase to be more secure. Underneath our user section, we have user management, where by default you have your admin login.
If you wanted to add users, then you’d be able to edit, modify, and adjust the different users as need be. Under change password. This would be the login to get into the unit. So by default, you have admin as the user and password is admin as well. You would add in your password, put in your new password and repeat it for security measures, and that would change that password to whatever you would desire it to be.
The last section that we have over here is our system. If we drop that down for operations, the first section is troubleshooting. If you’re connected to a network, you’re gonna be able to do a ping or a trace route. Otherwise you can also do a traffic test. This one you don’t need to be on the network for.
Let’s just say for example, I want to start this and I’m gonna do it bi-directionally. It’s gonna start a test. Note: this just like doing a normal iperf testing, processing power, and things along those lines are taken into consideration. This is not gonna give you a full speed 10 gig signal out of the WaveCores.
They’re doing a whole lot of other processing, so your values are gonna be more in. Probably 500-600Mbps range. It’ll just verify your connectivity. You can always do a baseline and just see what you get for a throughput, and then when you put it up to a wall floor ceiling. You can see that value as well, but it’s not gonna be giving you a full strength signal from the beginners.
If I scroll down here and I put my mouse over it, we can see I’m getting right around 550 on average. I’d say for the two. I can stop that test, but you could run that for a particular time period to be able to see that as well. Firmware update section, we did go through this in a prior video.
We can see, we have our active primary is our 1.1.0.24. Our original version of firmware is on there. So if we ever did need to make a change where maybe we feel that the software could have caused an issue, you can easily select it. You can set it as primary and it would just swap. So you always have a backup on there, and you don’t need to go onto the internet and try find an old version of firmware or anything along those lines.
And as we noted in the video, you’re able to do it via HTTP, FTP, TFTP, or the local file, the simple version that we showed you when we did the firmware update and the videos. Lastly, if I come down to system operations, we have our backup and restore section. So once you do a backup, you’ll end up seeing files listed here where you can download, restore, delete.
If you wanted to restore this section and this button would be the restore portion. We have the reboot, so this would just be a software reboot. Factory reset would just be a software version of the factory reset. As we noted, there’s also the reset button that is on the unit itself, so if you take a paperclip less than five seconds, it’s just gonna do a reboot longer than five seconds.
It’ll do a factory reset. Lastly, if you’re ever working with our support team or our system engineers we may request, to download the system support logs, click on the download button. It’s just going to create a small little zip file that you’ll be able to send to us that’ll give us the configuration so we can duplicate it. If there is something that we need to try to replicate, we’d be able to try to correct that.
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