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WMScanner GUI and Menus
Summit WMScanner Users Guide42
Reports Menu
Summit WMScanner provides an extensive reporting capability that network designers can use to
document all aspects of their WLAN design including project information, design parameters,
measurement data results, and measurement heatmaps. This information is output in MS Word format
for easy viewing, editing, and archiving. To launch the reporting feature, select Reports > Run Reports:
NOTE
Before generating reports for Microsoft Word, ensure the rfreports.dot is selected as the primary template. Use the
following steps to set rfreports.dot as the template:
Visualize Survey
Data
This command allows you to view data based on real WLAN measurements.
Invoking this command opens the Visualization panel, allowing you to select
from the following types of heat maps:
Channel Grid
Coverage Grid
SNR Grid
SSID Grid
Data Rate Grid
Noise Grid
Hybrid Network Overlap Grid
Channel Width Performance Grid
Channel Width Configuration Grid
Data Rate Performance Grid
See “Visualizing Survey Data” on page 100 for details.
Visualization
Options
This command opens the Visualization Options dialog, which allows you to set
the Visualization Boundary, Distance Visualization Limit, and Grid Bin Size.
See “Configuring Measurement Visualizations” on page 104 for details.
Import
Measurement Data
This command allows you to import an ASCII (plaintext) measurement logfile
created by Summit WMScanner. See “Importing Measurement Logfiles” on
page 119 for details.
Export
Measurement Data
This command allows you to export measurement data embedded within the
drawing to an ASCII (plaintext) logfile. See “Exporting Measurement Logfiles”
on page 120 for details.
Delete
Measurement Data
This command allows you to remove measurement data from the current
drawing. Your measurement data logfile, however, will still remain on your hard
drive unless you select the option to “Erase Logfile” on the Measurement Run
Delete dialog box that prompts you for the measurement run you would like to
remove. See “Deleting Measurement Data” on page 121 for details.
Access Point
Associations
Allows you to identify which measurement runs correspond to which access
points in the drawing file.
Display
Measurement Data
This command is used to set, show, hide and change the marker settings.