Adding And Managing Mesh Access Points With Cisco Wcs; Adding Campus Maps, Outdoor Areas, And Buildings With Cisco Wcs; Adding Campus Maps - Cisco aironet 1522 Design And Deployment Manual

Adding and Managing Mesh Access Points with Cisco WCS

To configure and monitor mesh networks from Cisco WCS you must first import campus and outdoor
maps into Cisco WCS and add buildings. Thereafter, you can add mesh access points to the map and
configure and monitor mesh access points from Cisco WCS.
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Adding Campus Maps, Outdoor Areas, and Buildings with Cisco WCS

For mesh networks, maps and items on those maps (buildings and mesh access points) are added to Cisco
WCS in the following order:
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Detailed steps for adding these maps and components are noted below.

Adding Campus Maps

To add a single campus map to the Cisco WCS database, follow these steps.
Save the map in .PNG, .JPG, .JPEG, or .GIF format.
Step 1
Note
Browse to and import the map from anywhere in your file system.
Step 2
Click Monitor > Maps to display the Maps window.
Step 3
From the Select a command drop-down menu, choose New Campus and click GO.
Step 4
On the Maps > New Campus window, enter the campus name and campus contact name.
Step 5
Browse to and choose the image filename containing the map of the campus and click Open.
Step 6
Check the Maintain Aspect Ratio check box to prevent length and width distortion when Cisco WCS
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resizes the map.
Enter the horizontal and vertical span of the map in feet.
Step 8
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"Adding Campus Maps, Outdoor Areas, and Buildings with Cisco WCS" section on page 151
"Adding Mesh Access Points to Maps with Cisco WCS" section on page 154
"Monitoring Mesh Access Points Using Google Earth" section on page 155
"Adding Indoor Mesh Access Points to Cisco WCS" section on page 159
"Managing Mesh Access Points with Cisco WCS" section on page 160
"Monitoring WGB" section on page 179
"Viewing AP Last Reboot Reason" section on page 181
Add campus map
Add outdoor area map
Add buildings
Add mesh access points
The map can be any size because Cisco WCS automatically resizes the map to fit its working
areas.
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