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2 Planning Your Installation
24 Installation and User Guide: Airgo Access Point
Example 5: Large Campus with Branch Offices
This example shows how a company can incorporate centralized network management to control a
large campus with branch offices. The company has planned its network to include the NMS Pro
Network Management System. This solution will provide network administrators with extensive
control and oversight, centralized monitoring, and fault management.
The campus buildings and branch offices lend themselves to a hierarchical management structure in
which an NM Portal AP is configured on each building subnet. Each NM Portal AP handles policy
distribution and software upgrades at its location as directed by NMS Pro. The NM Portal AP also
serves as a backup security portal in the event that another RADIUS authentication server in its
authentication zone becomes unavailable.
The network configuration for this example is shown in Figure 13 and the feature decisions are
shown in Figure 14.
Figure 13: Example 5 Network
NOTE: AP configurations must be reset to factory defaults before they can be enrolled
by NMS Pro. For this reason, it is best to make the decision to use NMS during initial
network planning, before APs are installed in the network. For further information, see
“Resetting the Access Point” on page 31 in this guide and also see the NMS Pro
Installation and User Guide.
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