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Chapter 4 HiveManager Examples
Preparing the HiveAPs
There are several approaches that you can take when mapping the location of installed HiveAP devices. Two
possible approaches are presented below. With the first approach
assigns HiveAPs to maps. This approach does require a small amount of configuration of each HiveAP up front, but
then the automatic assignment of detected HiveAPs to their appropriate maps on the HiveManager occurs without
any further effort. The second approach
needing to do any extra configurations, but you later have to match each HiveAP with the right map in the
HiveManager manually.
Using SNMP
This approach makes use of the SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) sysLocation MIB (Management
Information Base) object, which you define on a HiveAP. The HiveManager can use this information to associate a
HiveAP with a map and provide a description of where on the map each HiveAP belongs.
1. Make copies of the maps you uploaded to the HiveManager, label them, and take them with you for reference
when installing the HiveAPs.
2. For each HiveAP that you install, do the following:
1. Make a serial connection to the console port, and log in (see
2. Enter the following command, in which string1 describes the location of the HiveAP on the map (in open
format) and string2 is the name of the map:
snmp location string1@string2
For example, if you install a HiveAP in the northwest corner on the first floor of building 1, enter
snmp location northwest_corner@HQ-B1-F1. If you want to use spaces in the description, surround
the entire string with quotation marks: snmp location "northwest corner@HQ-B1-F1".
If the name of a map is not unique, then include the map hierarchy in the string until the path to the map is
unique. For example, if you have two maps named "floor-1", and the one you want to use is nested under a
higher level map named "building-1" while the other is nested under "building-2", then enter the command
as follows: snmp location northwest_corner@floor-1@building-1 . Similarly, if there are two
maps named "building-1" nested under higher level maps for two different sites ("campus-1" and "campus-2",
for example), then include that next higher level in the string to make it unique:
snmp location northwest_corner@floor-1@building-1@campus-1
3. Mount and cable the HiveAP to complete its installation. (For details, see
When the HiveManager detects a HiveAP, it checks its SNMP location. When you accept the HiveAP for management,
then the HiveManager automatically associates it with the map specified in its SNMP location description. You can
then click the icon to see its location and then drag it to the specified location on the map. Also, on the HiveAP
Management > New HiveAPs > Automatically discovered page in the HiveManager GUI, you can sort detected
HiveAPs by map name so that you can more easily assign them to device groups, radio profiles, and hive profiles.
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("Using
("Using MAC Addresses" on page
SNMP"), the HiveManager automatically
41) allows you to install HiveAPs without
"Log in through the console port" on page
"The HiveAP Platform" on page
70).
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