Brocade Mobility Access Point System Reference Guide (Supporting software release 5.5.0.0 and later) - Manual (Page 750)

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The Security tab provides the following information:
Mesh Device Mobile Displays whether the mesh point is a mobile or static node. Displays True when the
device is mobile and False when the device is not mobile.
Radio Interface This indicates the interface that is used by the device to communicate with this
neighbor. The values are 2.4 and 5.8, indicating the frequency of the radio that is
used to communicate with the neighbor.
Hops The number of devices between the neighbor and its Root Mesh Point. If the
neighbor is a Root Mesh Point, this value will be 0. If the neighbor is not a Root Mesh
Point but it has a neighbor that is a Root Mesh Point, this value will be 1. Each Mesh
Point between the neighbor and its Root Mesh Point is counted as 1 hop.
Resourced Displays whether the mesh point has been resourced or not. The Mesh Connex
neighbor table can contain more neighbors than the AP supports. If the neighbor is
resourced, it will take away a one of the resources for a wireless client device to be
used for meshing. Displays True when the device is resourced and False when the
device is not.
Link Quality An abstract value depicting the quality of the mesh link between the device and the
neighbor. The range is from 0 (weakest) to 100 (strongest).
Link Metric This value shows the computed path metric from the device to the neighbor Mesh
Point using this interface. The lower the number the better the possibility that the
neighbor will be chosen as the path to the Root Mesh Point.
Root Metric The computed path metric between the neighbor and their Root Mesh Point.
Rank The rank is the level of importance and is used for automatic resource management.
8 – The current next hop to the recommended root.
7 – Any secondary next hop to the recommended root to has a good potential route
metric.
6 – A next hop to an alternate root node.
5 – A downstream node currently hopping through to get to the root.
4 – A downstream node that could hop through to get to the root, but is currently not
hopping through any node. (Look at authentication, as this might be an issue)
3 – A downstream node that is currently hopping through a different node to get to
the root, but could potentially have a better route metric if it hopped through this
node.
2 – Reserved for active peer to peer routes and is not currently used.
1 - A neighbor bound to the same recommended root but does not have a potential
route metric as good as the neighbors ranked 8 and 7.
0 – A neighbor bound to a different root node.
-1 – Not a member of the mesh as it has a different mesh ID.
All client devices hold a rank of 3 and can replace any mesh devices lower than that
rank.
Age Displays the number of miliseconds since the mesh point last heard from this
neighbor.
Mesh Point Name Displays the name of each configured Mesh Point in the RF Domain.
MP ID The MP identifier is used to distinguish between other Mesh Points both on the same
device and on other devices. This is used by a user to setup the preferred root
configuration.
IF ID The Interface ID (IFID) uniquely identifies an interface associated with the MPID. Each
Mesh Point on a device can be associated with one or more interfaces.