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Authentication Failures Number of times authentication for a client failed. 

Common causes of authentication failures include the 
following:

„

User glob or MAC address glob mismatch or Unknown 
user

„

Invalid password

„

RADIUS server timeout

Authorization Failures

Number of times authorization for a client who has been 
authenticated failed. Common causes of authorization 
failures include the following:

„

Time-of-day, start-date, or end-date attributes do not 
allow access on the date and time the client is 
requesting it.

„

The VLAN the client is assigned to cannot be found.

Association Failures

Number of times a 3Com radio refused a client’s 
association request. Common causes of association 
failures include the following:

„

The encryption cipher requested by the client is not 
enabled or not supported on the radio.

„

A static WEP key is required but the client did not 
present the correct key.

„

Session load balancing is enabled on the MAP and the 
MAP’s maximum session count has already been 
reached.

„

The client is requesting a different SSID than the one 
for which they have been authenticated and are 
authorized.

„

The client is already associated with the radio.

Dot1x Failures

Number of times a client experienced 802.1X failures. 
Common causes of 802.1X failures include the following:

„

A radio has already failed the client and the 802.1X 
quiet period was in effect.

„

The authentication request sent to a RADIUS server on 
behalf of the client timed out.

„

Bonded authentication is enabled and there was no 
machine authentication session for client’s machine.

„

The username does not match an authentication rule’s 
userglob for the requested SSID.

Table 38   Client Activity Columns When a Mobility Domain is Selected