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ProSAFE Wireless Controller
Management VLAN and Data VLAN Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
High-Level Deployment Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Scenario Example 1: Network With Single VLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Scenario Example 2: Advanced Network With VLANs and SSIDs . . . . . . . . . 46
Scenario Example 3: Advanced Network With Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Application, Browser, and Port Requirements for RF Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
RF Planning Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Planning Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Recommended RF Planning Procedure for a Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Manage a Building and Floors for an RF Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Add a Building and Floors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Add a Single Floor to a Building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Scale a Floor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Add a WiFi Coverage or WiFi Noncoverage Zone to a Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Remove a WiFi Coverage or Noncoverage Zone From a Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Add a WiFi Building Obstacle to a Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Remove a Building Obstacle From a Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Add a WiFi Obstruction Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Remove a WiFi Obstruction Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Change the Name, Map, or Dimensions of a Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Change the Name of a Building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Duplicate an Entire Building With All Floors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Duplicate a Single Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Remove a Single Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Remove an Entire Building With All Its Floors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Manually Add and Manage Antennas on a Floor Map for an RF Plan. . . . . . . . . 79
Display and Recalculate the WiFi Coverage for a Heat Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Display or Change the WiFi Inventory for an RF Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Download a Report for an RF Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
View the Heat Map for a Deployed Floor Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Connect Your Computer to the Wireless Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Log In to the Wireless Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Roadmap for Initial Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Roadmap for Configuring Management of Your WiFi Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Choose a Location for the Wireless Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Deploy the Wireless Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Chapter 6 Configure the System and Network Settings and
Configure the General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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