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Chapter 8 HiveManager Configuration Examples
The following examples in this chapter show how to install over 70 HiveAPs at three locations in a corporate
network, use HiveManager to create configurations for them, and then push the configurations to them over the
network. The high-level deployment scheme is as follows:
The general design of the deployment is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Deployment Overview
You can look at any of the following examples individually to study how to configure a specific feature or view all of
them sequentially as a set to study the workflow for deploying large numbers of HiveAPs and configuring them
through HiveManager.
Headquarters - Building 1 (HQ-B1) Headquarters - Building 2 (HQ-B2) Branch Office (Branch1)
32 HiveAPs 32 HiveAPs 8 HiveAPs
1 Hive (hive1) 1 Hive (hive2) 1 Hive (hive3)
1 WLAN policy (WLANpolicy-hq1) 1 WLAN policy (WLANpolicy-hq2) 1 WLAN policy (WLANpolicy-branch1)
x 8
Floors
4 HiveAPs
per Floor
x 8
Floors
2 HiveAPs
per Floor
x 4
Floors
Corporate
Headquarters
Branch
Office
64
HiveAPs
Total
8
HiveAPs
Total
Branch1
HQ-B1 HQ-B2
WLANpolicy-hq1
Hive1
WLANpolicy-hq2
Hive2
WLANpolicy-branch1
Hive3
VPN Tunnel
HiveManager
(in “HQ-B1”)