OmniVista Cirrus Menu

The OmniVista Cirrus Interface is organized to provide clear separation between configuration, monitoring, and dashboard access, allowing to navigate quickly between operational views and administrative tasks.

Below is the sample main OmniVista Cirrus interface:

The main interface consists of:

• Top Panel

• Dashboard Panel

• Dashboard Control Bar

• Dashboard Area

• Footer

• Left Panel

Top Panel

The “Top Panel” provides global context and quick access controls across OmniVista Cirrus 10.

Key elements:

• MSP Portal indicator - Indicates the operation within the MSP context.

• Organization selector / name - Displays the currently selected Organization.

• Quick Search - Allows to search for a menu item. Enter the key word of the menu to search.

• Global actions (top right of screen):

  

  • AIVA - Opens the OmniVista AI Assistant.

  • Notifications - Displays the Alerts, AP Traps, SNMP Traps, and Updates (Edge Advisor anomaly definitions).

  • Help - Displays the online help documentation for the application.

  • User profile menu - Displays the profile, support, and application information.

The Top panel remains visible at all times and defines the organizational scope of all displayed data.

Dashboard Panel

The “Dashboard Panel” sits directly below the “Top Panel” and lets you switch between dashboard types.

Available options:

• Operational Dashboard

  • Focused on real-time network health, device status, and alerts.

• Configuration Dashboard

  • Focused on deployment, setup, licensing, and administrative visibility.

• Create Dashboard

  • Allows to create a new custom dashboard.

Dashboard Control Bar

The “Dashboard Control Bar” sits at the top-right of the “Dashboard Panel” and lets you customize and contextualize the dashboard content.

Controls include:

• Organization filter

  • Allows customizing dashboard data for a specific organization, site, buildings, floors or AP.

• Time range selector

  • Allows setting the time range for displaying metrics data. Example: Last Hour

• Add Widget

  • Allows adding new widgets to the dashboard.

• Edit

  • Allows editing, rearranging, and modifying widgets.

Dashboard Area

The “Dashboard Area” is the primary workspace where dashboard widgets are displayed. This area is fully dynamic, and updates based on selected filters (site, time range, etc.).

Features:

• Displays widgets such as:

  • Equipment status distribution

  • Connected clients

  • Counters (sites, devices, users)

  • Channel utilization

  • Site equipment status lists, etc.

• Widgets are arranged in a card-based layout for easy scanning.

• Each widget supports:

  • Contextual actions (menu icon).

  • Drill-down navigation to detailed views.

Footer

The “Footer” provides informational and support-related links. This panel is informational and does not affect dashboard behavior. It is available at the bottom of the screen.

Includes:

• Privacy - Display the ALE Privacy and Data Protection Policy.

• Give Your Feedback - Provide feedback about OmniVista Cirrus.

• About - Display the release information of the OmniVista Cirrus applications.

• Free Open Source Software information - Display the Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS) used in OmniVista Cirrus.

Left Panel

The “Left Panel” is the primary navigation menu and remains persistent across the application. It provides links to all of the OmniVista Cirrus applications used to configure and monitor the Organization’s network, as well as manage the Organization.

The menu is divided into six (6) areas: Dashboard, Inventory, Configure, Monitor, Diagnostics, and Organization. The section below provides an overview of each area.

Dashboard

This section provides access to all dashboards (Operational Dashboard, Configuration Dashboard and Custom Dashboard).

Inventory

The following Inventory applications are used to manage OmniVista Cirrus 10 device inventory:

• Device List - Display devices known to OmniVista Cirrus. Use the Device List to add, edit, remove, and license devices for management.

• Wired Ports - Display information about wired ports on Switch and AP devices. Note that only wired ports from AP models that have downlink wired ports are included in the display. You can select if you want to display all wired ports within the Organization, within a Site, within a specific Building, within a specific Floor, or on specific devices. In addition to viewing wired ports, you can administratively enable/disable the port status and display UNP clients connected to a port.

• Firmware Scheduler

  • Scheduled Upgrades - Schedule automatic upgrades for specific network devices during set time windows (for example, non-business hours) to minimize network disruption.

  • Configuration Backups - Initiate and manage backups of switch configuration files.

  • U-Boot Upgrade - Update the U-Boot firmware on your AOS network switches directly from the management interface.

Configure

This section is used to configure the Organization’s network such as:

• Wireless
  The following Wireless applications are used to configure and manage wireless networks:

  • SSIDs - The SSIDs application is used to configure wireless networks. The SSIDs option simplifies wireless network configuration with one-step provisioning, including SSID setup as well as authentication and policy configuration.

  • Profile

    • Access Point Groups - Displays information about configured Access Point (AP) Groups. This screen is also used to create, edit, or delete AP Groups.

    • Provisioning Configuration - Displays information about Provisioning Configurations that are assigned to AP Groups.

    • RF Profiles - The RF Profiles application is used to create wireless RF Profiles for Stellar APs and AP Groups.

  • WIPS - The Wireless Intrusion Protections System (WIPS) application is used to monitor the wireless radio spectrum for the presence of unsafe access points and clients, and is used to configure policies to classify rogue APs/wireless attacks and take countermeasures to mitigate the impact of foreign intrusions.

  • Advanced

    • External Engines - The External Engines application is used to declare server configurations for Aeroscout, Stellar Asset Tracking, WiFi RTLS, and Advanced Analytics. OmniVista Cirrus can integrate with an Aeroscout, OmniVista Cirrus WiFi RTLS, and OmniAccess Stellar Asset Tracking Server to provide Location Based Services (LBS); OmniVista Advanced Analytics to provide advanced analytics data to OmniVista Cirrus 10.1 and above installations. BLE Location Service is a pre-configured service dedicated to OmniAccess Stellar Asset Tracking.

    • Certificates - The Certificates application is used to configure/upload a Web Server/External Portal Server Certificate File. This Certificate File is used to establish a secure connection between OmniVista Cirrus and APs when using the Web UI Device Management Tool as well as a secure connection to an External Portal Server. This application is also used to upload a Local LDAP Certificate File, which is used to establish a secure connection between an AP and a Local LDAP Server.

    • External Captive Portal - The External Captive Portal Configuration file is used to provide secure communication between APs and an External Captive Portal Server. The management of external configuration files is done through Access Role Profiles. When the Captive Portal option for the Access Role Profile is set to “External”, you can specify the name of an External Captive Portal Configuration file to use. Traffic assigned to the profile will be redirected to the External Captive Portal Server identified in the configuration file.

    • DHCP Option 82 - The Global Configuration DHCP Option 82 is used to configure the DHCP Option 82 Feature for Access Points. DHCP Option 82 allows a DHCP Relay Agent to insert specific information into a request that is forwarded to a DHCP Server.

    • Data VPN Settings - The Data VPN Settings application is used to create Data VPN Server profiles. Data VPN Servers allow devices to access remote functionality.

• LAN
  The following LAN applications are available to manage network traffic:

  • Layer 2 - Use this application to segment network traffic with Layer 2 VLANs.

  • Layer 3 - Use this application is used to create IP interfaces for Layer 3 VLANs.

  • Advanced - Use this application to do the following:

    • Configure and manage Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) on your network.

    • Create and apply global configuration attributes (such as redirect pause timer, authentication server timeout, redirect port bounce/proxy port/server host, etc.) to devices.

  • Switch Templates - Use this application to deploy and configure switches. User-configured templates are utilized to automatically push a configuration to switches during the onboarding process or to push a different configuration to a provisioned switch.

• Auth & Automation
  The following Network Access applications are used to provide unified device configuration of security functions for Access Points (APs) and Switch devices:

  • Access Profiles - Provides unified device configuration of security functions for network devices. In addition to device authentication and classification, you can create Access Role Profiles (similar to User Network Profiles) to configure network access controls for one or more user devices. Access Profiles provides applications that work together with Authentication Servers to seamlessly authenticate and configure QoS for devices.

  • UPAM-NAC - The Unified Policy Authentication Manager (UPAM) is a unified access management platform for Stellar AP Series devices. UPAM supports both Captive Portal server and RADIUS server; and can be used to implement MAC authentication and Captive Portal authentication. User Profiles can be supported in the OmniVista database or on external servers.

  • Application Visibility - Displays all configured Signature Profiles and is used to create, edit and delete profiles. Signature Profiles are created from a Signature File, which contains Application Signature information for individual applications/protocols as well application groups (pre-configured groups of related applications/protocols).

  • Scripts - The Scripts screen lets you create, manage, and run CLI scripts on network devices across the organization. You can execute scripts immediately or schedule them to run repeatedly. Results consolidate into searchable logs that you can export or email. Organization administrators use the CLI scripting tool to automate device configuration or data collection.

• Advisor Edge - Advisor Edge extends OmniVista Cirrus with advanced anomaly detection and alert routing capabilities. This feature allows Organization Administrators to declare Advisor Edge instances, associate Organization devices for monitoring, manage anomalies, and route alerts to Rainbow communication bubbles.

Monitor

This section is used to monitor, analyze and troubleshoot the Organization’s network.

• Network - The following Network applications review network, QoE, and client analytics. You can also locate user devices and clients across the network and identify application/protocol flows.

  • Analytics - Analyze network and client metrics.

  • QoE - Monitor QoE analytics to evaluate the actual end-user experience on the network.

  • Locator - The Locator feature in OmniVista provides a centralized and intuitive way for network administrators to find, identify, and track user devices and clients across the network.

  • Clients - Use the dashboard display filters to define the scope of client activity you want to monitor by organization, site, building, floor, or device. You can also determine the characteristics of clients currently connected to—or previously connected to—your WiFi network.

  • Application Visibility - Identifies application/protocol flows based on Application Signatures that identify an associated application or protocol.

• Topology - Provides a unified, visual representation of the network, allowing administrators to understand physical connectivity, logical services, and wireless coverage from a single entry point.

• Anomalies - Displays a history of detected anomalies that you can analyze to detect patterns of network behavior (for example, how many anomalies were reported from a specific device).

• Alerts - Provides a list of alerts received and basic alert information (for example, severity, date/time received). You can also manage alerts and configure alert templates to identify specific alerts that you want OmniVista Cirrus to report.

• Security

  • Wireless Security - The Wireless Intrusion Protection System (WIPS) application monitors the wireless radio spectrum for the presence of unsafe access points and clients, and can take countermeasures to mitigate the impact of foreign intrusions.

  • Access Records - Monitor client access records for Authentication, Captive Portal, Self-Registration Requests, Guest Devices, BYOD Devices, and IoT Devices.

• Reports - Provides a comprehensive view of network resource utilization, including information on users, devices, and applications. Reports can also provide information on usage trends, including predictive analysis of future network resource utilization.

Diagnostics

Provides tools for monitoring network events, troubleshooting devices, initiating a terminal session with a device, collecting log information from devices to send to Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) Technical Support to troubleshoot problems, and remote packet capture for Access Points.

Organization

This section is used to configure/modify the Organization. Used for organization-wide administration.

• Sites Management

  • Sites - Configure physical sites for the Organization, including buildings and floors.

  • Device Location - Displays the location and information of the identified device.

  • Walls - Configure walls in a building at the site.

• Users & Roles

  • Users - Displays a list of current users for the Organization. You can also create users and specify user permissions for the Organization (e.g., Admin, Viewer).

  • Login Attempts - Displays login information for the Organization by time and user.

  • Two-Factor Authentication - Displays the two-factor authentication configuration status for Organization users. You can also impose a two-factor authentication requirement on Organization users.

  • Audit Logs - Displays a list of all the actions performed by Organization users (such as inviting a user to join the Organization or updating building information for an Organization Site).

• Settings

  • Basic Settings - Modify the name for the Organization, Region and Timezone, upload an optional Organization Image from your computer, set the timeout value for user sessions, and the amount of time user data/analytics is retained.

  • Network ID Settings - Enable the Network ID feature for devices on your network. Devices specify the Network ID whenever they call home. This provides a secure on-boarding process in that the Network ID from the device must match the Network ID in OmniVista; your devices cannot be on-boarded/managed by other OmniVista installations.

  • Pii Requests - Monitor the request to delete Personally Identifiable Information requests (PII data) in the Organization.

  • Single Sign-On - Enable or disable single sign-on.

  • Celona Orchestrator - Enable or disable configuration of Celona Orchestrator.

  • AIVA - Enable or disable the OmniVista AI Assistant for Organization users. You can also configure the voice used when AIVA reads a response aloud using text-to-speech and the conversational style AIVA uses when composing its responses.

• Notifications Management

  • SMS Provider - Select which SMS Service to use (Plivo or Twillio) to send SMS notifications.

  • Email Templates - Customize the content of email notifications sent to the user from OmniVista Cirrus.

  • Rainbow - Use the Rainbow configuration to send notifications from OmniVista Cirrus to an existing and/or new Rainbow Bubble. For each Organization, Admin users can enable the sending of alerts to the specified Rainbow Bubble.

• License Management
  Displays information about the Organization’s OmniVista Cirrus License, such as the license type (free trial or paid subscription). A user is allowed to manage up to the maximum number of devices allowed for that license for the length of the trial or paid subscription contract. Based on the type of device and/or feature license that is assigned to the Organization, the following information is displayed:

  • Trial License - When a new Organization is created, an Organization Widget representing the new Organization appears on the MSP Dashboard. Before an Organization can be configured for network management, access to the Organization must be requested. To increase the Trial License time frame and/or the number of devices to manage, click on Request an update on the License Management screen.

  • CAPEX Subscription Model - The License Management screen for the CAPEX Subscription model provides the following information:

    • Licenses - An overview of the licenses purchased and activated by the user, including the end dates for the license as well as the number of devices that can be managed with the current license.

    • Device License Management - Allows you to manage device licenses by assigning or releasing licenses. You also have the option to set up auto-assignment for licenses when creating a new device.

    • NaaS Device Licenses - Displays the Network as a Service (NaaS) Device Licensing information for managed devices. Use this screen to determine and monitor the status of the Device License for each device.

  • Flexible Pay Model - The License Management screen for the Flexible Pay model provides an overview of the license subscriptions purchased and activated by the user, including the start and end dates for the license as well as the number of devices that can be managed with the current license.

  • AI Credits - An organization-level entitlement that controls team access to the AIVA intelligent assistant. Each interaction with AIVA consumes credits from the organization's pool. You can view the credit balance, how credits are allocated, and monitor usage across OmniVista Cirrus.

  • Advisor Edge Devices - Advisor Edge subscription and license management controls how many network devices your organization can monitor with Advisor Edge instances. The system enforces device-level entitlement: you assign eligible devices to Advisor Edge instances, and each assigned device consumes one entitlement unit from your organization's trial or paid capacity. You can view the number of allowed and used Advisor Edge devices.