Monitoring of smart mobile devices in the wireless access networks

A method for smart mobile devices monitoring in a computer local area network with wireless extension (wireless local area network), the method comprising:

• installing a wireless access system comprising one or more wireless access points positioned within a selected geographic region to provide wireless access in a local area network, the one or more wireless access points being in communication with a wireless access management server over a computer network;
• configuring the wireless access management server to communicate with a mobile device management (MDM) system, the MDM system comprising an MDM server in communication with a plurality of MDM agents on a plurality of managed smart mobile devices;
• detecting a wireless client connecting to at least one of the one more wireless access points;
• identifying the wireless client to be a smart mobile device ______;
• receiving an indication at the wireless access management system from the MDM system regarding whether the wireless client is a managed device or not;
• classifying the wireless client as approved or unapproved smart mobile device based at least upon the indication received from the MDM system.

A method for monitoring personal smart mobile devices in local area computer networks with wireless extensions (wireless local area networks), the method comprising:

• configuring a wireless network access policy for one or more types of smart mobile devices, a type of a smart mobile device being characterized by at least a device hardware type or at least a device operating system type;
• ascertaining a connection of a first wireless device to the wireless local area network;
• determining type of the first wireless device based at least upon one or more fields in one or more packets transmitted by the first wireless device, the one or more fields containing information which is characteristic of the type of the first wireless device;
• ascertaining violation of the wireless network access policy based at least upon the determined type of the first wireless device;
• and
• responding to the violation of the wireless network access policy.