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3. Within the Wireless IPS Status field, select either Enabled or Disabled to activate or de-activate

WIPS. The default setting is enabled.

4. Enter an Interval to Throttle Duplicates in either Seconds (1 - 86,400), Minutes (1 - 1,400),

Hours (1 - 24) or Days (1). This interval represents the duration event duplicates are not stored
in history. The default setting is 120 seconds.

5. Refer to the Rogue AP Detection field to define the following detection settings for this WIPS

policy:

6. Refer to the Device Categorization field to associate a Device Categorization Policy with this

Wireless IPS policy.

Select the Add icon to create a new Device Categorization policy, or select the Edit icon to
modify an existing Device Categorization policy.

Select OK to update the settings. Select Reset to revert to the last saved configuration. The WIPS
policy can be invoked at any point in the configuration process by selecting Activate Wireless IPS
Policy from the upper, left-hand side, of the access point user interface.

7. Select the WIPS Events tab. Ensure the Activate Wireless IPS Policy option remains selected to

enable the screen’s configuration parameters. This option need to remain selected to apply
the WIPS configuration to the access point profile.

The Excessive tab displays by default, with additional MU Anomaly and AP Anomaly tabs also
available.

Enable Rogue AP Detection

Select the check box to enable the detection of unsanctioned APs from this WIPS policy.
The default setting is disabled.

Wait Time to Determine AP
Status

Define a wait time in either Seconds (10 - 600) or Minutes (0 - 10) before a detected AP is
interpreted as a rogue (unsanctioned) device, and potentially removed. The default
interval is 1 minute.

Ageout for AP Entries

Set the interval the WIPS policy uses to ageout rogue devices. Set the policy in either
Seconds (30 - 86,400), Minutes (0- 1,440), Hours (1 - 24) or Days (1). The default setting
is 5 minutes.