User guide

Setting Up Your LAN Administrator Station
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Managing Infrastructure
Networks
In an infrastructure network, you will primarily use the LAN administrator
station that has the AP Manager installed to configure your Base Stations and
monitor the radio traffic between selected Base Stations and stations within the
network.
You may also install the Client Manager on all stations within the network, or on
selected mobile stations with the PC Card, to monitor the link between the
mobile station and the nearest Base Stations.
Wired or Wireless?
The choice for a wireless or wired LAN administrator station will depend on
your preferences and abilities to administer your network.
You should first determine how you would like to manage your network. If you
like to configure and monitor stations from:
! On-site, to troubleshoot problems at the physical location of the station,
you may choose to have a mobile, wireless LAN administrator station.
Tool: AP Manager and Client Manager
! A central location, such as the LAN administrator station, you may prefer
a wired LAN administrator station.
Tool: AP Manager
! A remote location, via modem, calling into a RAS or PPP entry point to
your network.
Tool: AP Manager
Your next consideration for wired or wireless station should be the size of your
network. For instance:
! In larger networks, it may be more convenient to manage the stations from
a central location, so a wired station would be more appropriate.
! In smaller network configurations, in which there are only few Base
Stations, a mobile, wireless station may be the most efficient way to
configure and manage your network.
For wireless stations the following has to be considered:
! LAN administrators require easy access to wireless areas, e.g. for on-site
troubleshooting.