RF Management Software презентация

Visualization

Plan & Install

Reporting

Security Audit

Easy planning of Wi-Fi installations
Predicted heatmaps for Site Planning - Manual and auto APs placement
Integrated with Switch configuration

Intelligent reporting
Better administration

Faster troubleshooting,
Complete visibility

Rogue AP detection, Control over WLAN intrusions

Near real time/time trends for various status/statistics
View RF heatmaps

View presence – status and location of wireless infrastructure and clients

RF Manager

Symbol Infrastructure Products:
WS5100, AP-5131
Single Floor Plan support
User Configurable Parameters
Import site map and configuration of deployment area
Input desired RF characteristics
AP placement or select number of APs
Predicted Site Planning
Predicted AP placement
Predicted Heat Maps
Locality of Clients: location relative to associated AP
Troubleshooting RF Statistics for Infrastructure and clients
Intrusion Detection Statistics

Planning Reports generated for Installers
PDF format
Configurations Generated that can be cut and pasted into the Wireless devices.
CLI Commands

a new project (or opens an existing project).
Planning has only one sub tab – “802.11 Network”
After opening a new or existing project, user ‘admin’ defines various characteristics and infrastructure for the site by clicking on various tool bar icons such as:
Specify floor map for the desired coverage area
Floor Plan: Jpeg / GIF / TIFF
Scale of floor plan
Specify RF characteristics
Country of Deployment
Frequency Band
AP Antenna type
User configurable prediction resolution (range: 1foot to 15 feet)

…Contd.

Desired number of APs (optional only for Auto Placement)
Desired dataspeed i.e. MU Bit rate (e..g. 36, 54) (optional only for Auto Placement)
Identify by dragging cursor over the floor map and adding
Don’t care areas
RF environment zones – silent, moderate or noisy
Special zones – can’t place areas, high MU count, minimum PHY rate desired
Specify environmental attributes are added:
Walls (line segments) (Cubes should not be drawn as walls as everything today is 2D i.e. all objects are full height/everything on the same plane)
RF Blockers (rectangles only)
Metal (rectangles only)

…Contd.

After ‘admin’ has defined the site:
For manual placement:
‘admin’ starts placing APs and specifies their location, power etc.
‘admin’ specifies antenna for each AP and can also specify antenna type(gain)
‘admin’ does ‘calculate heatmap.

For auto placement:
‘admin’ selects ‘auto placement’. ‘admin’ can specify either fixed # of APs OR desired bitspeed. It also asks for # of optimize iterations. After user has selected then auto placement is done and user is shown the predicted heatmap.
‘admin’ can also click on ‘optmize’ to optimize further.

If no further optimization desired then ‘admin’ saves the project as well as:

…Contd.

Generates Report that can be shared with the installer to install APs.
Generates Wireless Switch Config that can be added to the wireless switch (by cut and paste or pushing the config if the switch is live in the network (stretch))

‘admin’ at this stage may also save ‘connectivity parameters’ of the network (such as wireless switch/AP ip address, snmp user name, snmp password etc.) so that the ‘support’ user can later monitor or troubleshoot that network.
Please note that channel selection mode for each AP is always ACS.

Information
Signal Strength
AP Utilization
MU Utilization
WLAN Utilization
Service Interruptions
Security
Rogue AP
IDS statistcs

configurations/statistics
MU location based on AP
Status of the infrastructure for project
Search
Find all devices matching a search expression
Check applicable status/statistics and location
‘search expression’ can be part of MAC address, IP address or description (MU, AP or WLAN description)

users (administrators or support users) access it via popular web browsers (Firefox, IE) by pointing to the machine on which it is installed.

Software & Installation

SNMP

will require a ‘License Key’
Currently working with IT

planned areas
Load Balancing
Indicates if AP or MU load balancing is happening or load is SKEWED
Redundancy Quotient
Indicates if there are enough standby switches or APs in healing neighborhood to cover in event of FAILURE or higher retries
Security Threat Level
Indicates degree of Intrusion and Rogue Activity
Network Utilization
Indicates network bandwidth usage

doing ? Should I drill down in something specific?

Reactive Troubleshooting: When a user calls that (s)he is having problems with the Wi-Fi network – its slow !

Reactive Troubleshooting: When a user calls that (s)he is having problems with a specific AP!

Reactive Troubleshooting: What is security threat level of my RF Site?

Reactive Troubleshooting: Poor Coverage

a specific user OR in a specific area
Unable to associate
Slow Association
Does not get IP address after association
Getting dropped frequently (observing association and disassociation frequently )
Connecting at low rates i.e. slow network
Facing too much roaming

Validation
Location based on Triangulation
Define multiple floors
WIPS Sensor Coverage
WS 2000 Support