NETGEAR ProSAFE WC7500 User Manual page 6

ProSAFE Wireless Controller
Configure a Local MAC Authentication Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Remove a Local MAC Authentication Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Select an ACL for a Profile in the Basic Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Select an ACL for a Profile in an Advanced Profile Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Chapter 8 Discover and Manage Access Points
Access Point Discovery Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
General Discovery Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Layer 3 Discovery Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Remote Access Point Discovery Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Discover Access Points With the Discovery Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Discover Access Points in Factory Default State and Access
Points in a Layer 2 Subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Discover Access Points Installed and Working in
Standalone Mode in Different Layer 3 Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Manage the Managed AP List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
View the Managed AP List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Change Access Point Information on the Managed AP List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Remove Access Points From the Managed AP List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Assign Access Points to Buildings, Floors, and Advanced Profile Groups . . . . 174
Chapter 9 Configure WiFi and QoS Settings
Basic and Advanced WiFi and QoS Configuration Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Configure the Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Configure the Radio for the Basic Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Configure the Radio for an Advanced Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Configure WiFi Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Configure WiFi Settings for the Basic Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Override Channel and Transmission Power in the Basic Profile Group . . . . 186
Configure WiFi Settings for an Advanced Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Override Channel and Transmission Power in an Advanced
Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Configure Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Specify Radio Frequency Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Radio Frequency Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
WLAN Healing Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Configure Radio Frequency Management for the Basic Profile Group . . . . 199
Configure Radio Frequency Management for an Advanced
Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Manage AirQual for a Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
AirQual Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Configure AirQual for the Basic Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Configure AirQual for an Advanced Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Manage Quality of Service for an Advanced Profile Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Quality of Service Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Configure Quality of Service for a Profile Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Manage Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
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