From the course: Wireless Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting

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Data collection with netsh trace

Data collection with netsh trace

From the course: Wireless Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting

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Data collection with netsh trace

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- [Instructor] I'm going to show you a very underutilized tool that comes with Windows clients and servers, and it's called Netsh WLAN. And it's going to be a way that we can see a report in HTML and this will give us information on the last several days of any types of wireless traffic. This can be an invaluable tool for troubleshooting any types of Wi-Fi issues, because it doesn't just show what's happening now. It shows what's been happening in the recent past. So here's your command, which is going to be in a command prompt. If you use PowerShell, you can use this as well. Netsh wlan show wlanreport. And now it's go ahead and grabbing all the information from the event logs and everything else. And here you can see the location of the report, which I'm going to use to open up right now. In order to see the program data, you have to go ahead and turn on view hidden files. So I'll go down to View, Show, Hidden items, and there's ProgramData. I'll go to Microsoft and then go to…

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