Creating Campuses And Buildings - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

Creating Campuses and Buildings

Floors are associated with a building and buildings are associated with a
campus. In order to create a new floor, you must first create a campus
and building.
Create campus
1. Navigate to VisualRF
2. Right Click on the background
3. Select New Campus option
4. When the Create New Campus window appears enter the
following Campus information:
Campus name
User Transmit Power – used in auto placement of access
points onto floors within this campus
Enter Desired Data Rate – used in auto placement of
access points onto floors within this campus.
Note: Buildings and floors inherit transmit power and data rate from campus
5. Click on the "OK" button to save. You will see a new
Campus icon appear on the campus canvas. (AMP ships with
a default campus and building.)
6. Add appropriate network geographical background or upload a
personalized image by right-clicking on the background.
Set Map – allows you to browser with Dell included maps.
Custom – launches the image upload wizard documented
below in the Importing Floor Plans section.
7. Drag the Campus icon to the appropriate location on the map
background.
Note: QuickView automatically saves background map images, campus
locations, building locations, and building types
Create building
1. Click on the newly created Campus icon from the previous step. You
will drill into to a blank canvas without a background.
2. Right click on the background and select New Building
3. When the New Building window appears, enter the following
information:
Building name
Select Campus from pull down
Visual RF and Visual RF Plan | User Guide P
Floor Plans page
Figure 8. "New Campus input"
Figure 9. "New Campus on map"
Figure 10. "Select Background"
Figure 11. "New Building input"
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