User guide

Monitoring Your BreezeNET Network
5-3
Alvarion
Which Tool Should You Use?
The decision whether to use the Client Manager or AP Manager largely
depends on your capabilities or desire to do diagnostic measurements on-site,
or from a central location.
Both the Client Manager and the AP Manager offer logging functions that can
save measurement data for later evaluation or comparison with previous
measurements. You can view saved log files with any ASCII editor, or import the
data into standard spreadsheet or database applications.
NOTE:
Alternatively you may use the AP Manager program to monitor wireless performance of
both wireless systems via Base Stations (see Remote Link Test Window).
The BreezeNET products have been designed to be interchangeable with all other wireless
LAN products that use the direct sequence radio technology, as identified in the IEEE
802.11 standard for wireless LANs. Operating in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz band, the
BreezeNET system can transmit through walls and floors, giving you the freedom to roam
throughout the network while maintaining your network connection.
This means that your BreezeNET hardware will communicate with other vendors’ IEEE
802.11 compliant wireless LAN products.
However, you may not always be able to use the BreezeNET software suite in combination
with other vendors’ products, due to the following reasons:
The IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless LANs does not identify standards for diagnostic
or management tools; i.e. each vendor may have designed a customized tool to
configure and/or manage the IEEE 802.11 wireless network.
The BreezeNET software suite has been designed to offer an enhanced set of tools to
monitor and analyze a wide range of diagnostic tallies.
Some of these tools require additional functions in the hardware that (by default) is
supported by all BreezeNET Alvarion products, but may not be supported by the other
vendors’ products.
If other vendors’ products do not let you display the communications quality or configuration
parameters using the BreezeNET software suite, please refer to the documentation that
was shipped with the other vendors’ product.