Audience; Purpose; Organization - Cisco AIR-AP1121G-E-K9 Hardware Installation Manual

Preface

Audience

This guide is for the networking professional who installs and manages the Cisco Aironet 1100 Series
Access Point, hereafter referred to as the access point. To use this guide, you should have experience
working with the Cisco IOS software and be familiar with the concepts and terminology of wireless local
area networks.

Purpose

This guide provides the information you need to install and initially configure your access point,
including procedures for using the IOS commands that have been created or changed for use with the
access point. It does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed information
about these commands, refer to the Cisco IOS Command Reference for Cisco Aironet Access Points and
Bridges for this release. For information about the standard IOS Release 12.2 commands, refer to the
IOS documentation set available from the Cisco.com home page at Service and Support > Technical
Documents. On the Cisco Product Documentation home page, select Release 12.2 from the Cisco IOS
Software drop-down menu.
This guide also includes an overview of the access point web-based interface (APWI), which contains
all the functionality of the command-line interface (CLI). This guide does not provide field-level
descriptions of the APWI windows nor does it provide the procedures for configuring the access point
from the APWI. For all APWI window descriptions and procedures, refer to the access point online help,
which is available from the Help buttons on the APWI pages.

Organization

This guide is organized into these chapters:
Chapter 1, "Overview,"
access point's role in your network.
Chapter 2, "Installing the Access Point,"
provides an installation summary, safety warnings, and general guidelines.
Chapter 3, "Configuring the Access Point for the First Time,"
on a new access point.
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lists the software and hardware features of the access point and describes the
describes how to connect Ethernet and power cables and
Cisco Aironet 1100 Series Access Point Hardware Installation Guide
describes how to configure basic settings
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