Setup Guide Part 1

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7signal Sapphire Carat User Guide Release 5.0
The hardware replacements require a different approach. The new equipment shall have new
MAC addresses and this causes a discontinuity in the measurements as it is considered a new
access point in the target network. If this is not the intention and the new equipment should
totally replace an access point that was previously in Managed more, 7signal Sapphire must be
informed.
To retain the measurement history with a new hardware:
1. Scan the network to get hold of the new access point hardware
2. Right-click on the access point that has been replaced to summon the “properties”
dialog
3. Locate the replace panel and choose from the drop-down list the new access point that
shall assume the role of the replaced access point.
Alternatively, it is possible to do replacing-by-import by using import utility. For more
information, see chapter 21.
The intended use of this feature is to help with replacing identical hardware. If the hardware is
not identical, the results may be many-fold. SLAs and alarm thresholds should be checked, for
example.
There is also possibility to enable automatic access point change logic in Carat server. This can
be done configuring Wireless Network to allow automatic changes
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1. Open Edit Wireless Network by right clicking network in tree and selecting “Edit”
2. Enable “Allow automatic BSSID changes”
3. Save Wireless Network Configuration.
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This feature works only with current Cisco hardware, on which how the MAC addresses are allocated
is known.