User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Installing the Wireless Array
- Installation Prerequisites
- Planning Your Installation
- Installation Workflow
- Installing Your Wireless Array
- Powering Up the Wireless Array
- Establishing Communication with the Array
- Entering the License
- Performing the Express Setup Procedure
- The Web Management Interface
- Viewing Status on the Wireless Array
- Configuring the Wireless Array
- Express Setup
- Network
- Services
- VLANs
- Tunnels
- Security
- SSIDs
- Groups
- IAPs
- WDS
- Filters
- Clusters
- Using Tools on the Wireless Array
Wireless Array
294 Configuring the Wireless Array
to optimize data rates based on range, or click Optimize Throughput to
optimize data rates based on throughput. The Restore Defaults button
will take you back to the factory default rate settings.
3. 802.11a IAP Control: Click Enable 802.11a IAPs to enable all 802.11an
IAPs for this Array, or click Disable 802.11a IAPs to disable all 802.11an
IAPs.
4. Channel Configuration: Click Auto Configure to instruct the Array to
determine the best channel allocation settings for each 802.11an IAP and
select the channel automatically, based on changes in the environment.
This is the recommended method for 802.11a channel allocation (see “RF
Spectrum Management” on page 318).
Click Factory Defaults if you wish to instruct the Array to return all IAPs
to their factory preset channels. As of release 6.3, Arrays no longer all use
the same factory preset values for channel assignments. Instead, if the
Array has been deployed for a while and already has data from the
spectrum analyzer and Xirrus Roaming Protocol about channel usage on
neighboring arrays, it performs a quick auto channel using that
information (without doing a full RF scan) to make an intelligent choice
of channel assignments. If the Array has been rebooted and has no saved
configuration or is just being deployed for the first time, it has no prior
data about its RF environment. In this case, it will pick a set of compatible
channel assignments at random.
Some of the features below, such as Auto Configure for Cell Size and
Channel Configuration, are only available if the Array’s license includes the
Xirrus Advanced RF Performance Manager (RPM). If a setting is
unavailable (grayed out), then your license does not support the feature.
Please see “About Licensing and Upgrades” on page 361.
On the XR500 and XR-1000 Series Arrays, the Factory Defaults button
will not restore iap1 to monitor mode. You will need to restore this setting
manually. Also, you may need to set Timeshare Mode again - see “RF
Monitor” on page 314.