User Guide

OmniAccess RF Plan User Guide: User Guide

16 Part 031649-00 May 2005

Import and Export

RF Plan allows you to import and export files that define the parameters of

your buildings. The files that you import and export are XML files and

depending on how many floors your buildings have, and particularly how many

background images you have for your floors, the XML files may be quite large.

(See “Background Images” on page 21.)

Buildings exported from RF Plan will be imported into an Alcatel switch and

used by the version of RF Plan that is integrated into the RF Director Software.

The exported building file contains all the data about the building(s) you

created using RF Plan. The integrated RF Plan in RF Director gives you the

ability to automatically configure the APs and AMs that are actually connected

to the switch using the Suggested AP and Suggested AM tables created by RF

Plan. (See “AP Plan” on page 26 and “AM Plan” on page 29.)

To display the Import and Export buttons, click

Plan on the toolbar.

Import Buildings

The Import Buildings page allows you to import configuration information from

an existing Alcatel switch so you can modify it for use on another switch or in

an another building.

Only XML files exported from an Alcatel switch or from Alcatel RF Plan may be

imported into RF Plan.

OTE—Importing any other file, including XML files from other applications,

may result in unpredictable results.

Any file you wish to import must be in the C:\Program Files\Alcatel RF

Plan\data\ path. You can not specify any other path in the RF Plan Import

Buildings dialog.