Diagnostic Tools; Run Site Survey For The Wlan Handset 2210/2211/2212 - Nortel 6120 Fundamentals

Diagnostic Tools

Run Site Survey, Diagnostics Mode, and Syslog Mode are provided to assist
the WLAN administrator to evaluate the functioning of the handset and the
VoWLAN system. You enable these tools from the handset Admin menu.

Run Site Survey for the WLAN Handset 2210/2211/2212

Site Survey is used to evaluate the facility coverage before certifying that an
installation is complete. It can also be used at any time to evaluate coverage
by testing signal strength, to gain information about an AP, and to scan
an area to look for all APs regardless of ESSID. The information available
through Site Survey includes:
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When Run Site Survey begins, it is in single ESSID mode. Press the Any
soft key to switch to all APs (regardless of ESSID) mode; the Any soft key
changes to MyID. The display looks like the following in multiple AP mode:
111111 -22 33
111111 -22 33
111111 -22 33
111111 -22 33
MyID
where
111111 = last three octets of the ESSID for the discovered AP
22 = signal strength of the specified AP
33 = channel number of the specified AP
4444 = DTIM interval configured for the specified AP
MyID = soft key to toggle between single and any ESSID mode
Detl = soft key to toggle between summary and detail screens
Press the Detl soft key to view the details, as follows:
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ESSID
beacon interval
information regarding support of various protocols and standards, as
required
current security configuration
444
444
444
444
Detl
Nortel Communication Server 1000
WLAN Handsets Fundamentals
NN43001-505 01.04 Standard
Release 5.0 4 September 2007
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