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3.7 Site Monitor
The Site Monitor option enables you to display the communications quality between
your Client Manager station and all Access Points within its range. The site monitor
helps you determine the overall wireless coverage of your network and verify or
optimize the placement of your Access Points, in order to provide seamless roaming
connectivity to WLAN stations.
NOTE: The Site Monitor option only works in Infrastructure mode. The Site Monitor will
allow you to determine the presence of neighboring Ad-Hoc (Peer-to-Peer)
workgroups, but you cannot select this type of network for Site Monitor
statistics.
To start the site monitor, select Site Monitor from the Advanced menu in the main
Client Manager window.
Site Monitor Tab
You can customize the selection of site monitor parameters according to your
monitoring needs and preferences. The recommended selection for standard site
survey procedures is as follows:
§ AP name to identify access points,
§ SNR to indicate the communications quality with the various access points, and
§ Channel to identify which radio channel is used by each of the access points.
Access Points can also be identified by MAC address, if AP names are not available.
The SNR, signal level and noise level can be displayed as dynamic indicators and/or
numerical values in dBm. The Site Monitor will display up to five parameter selections.
Selection Tab
The Selection tab enables you to select another WLAN network to monitor, or detect
the presence of other wireless networks that could possibly interfere with your WLAN
network.
The list of Observed Networks on this tab will show:
§ All networks that are operational within the range of your Client Manager station
§ The type of network that might either be an Infrastructure network or a Peer-to-
Peer workgroup
§ The number of access points in the observed infrastructure network(s).
§ The different radio channels used by the access points.
Click the Scan Now button to refresh the list of observed networks. Click the network of
your choice and return to the Site Monitor tab to display the diagnostics.
When the list of Observed Networks does not show other networks, this means that:
§ Your Client Manager station has been configured with a specific Network Name.
This setting will not allow you to scan for/monitor other network infrastructures.