Diagnostic Tools; Run Site Survey - Avaya 3641 Installation, Configuration And Administration

Part B: Avaya 3641/3645 Wireless IP Telephone
9.

Diagnostic Tools

Run Site Survey, Diagnostics Enabled and Syslog Mode are three diagnostic tools provided to
assist the WLAN administrator in evaluating the functioning of the Wireless IP Telephone
and the system surrounding it. Diagnostic Tools are enabled in the Admin menu.
9.1

Run Site Survey

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
SSID. The information available through site survey includes:
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SSID
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Beacon Interval
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Information regarding support of 802.11d, 802.11g, 802.11h, and other 802.11
amendment standards as required.
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Current security configuration
START the site survey by selecting Run Site Survey from the Admin menu. The mode starts
immediately.
When the test is started, it is by default in "single SSID" mode. When the Any soft key is
pressed (softkey A) all APs, regardless of SSID, are displayed and the softkey changes to
say MyID. Pressing the MyID soft key will revert the display to the "single SSID" mode and
change the softkey back to Any.
The display would look like the following for the multiple AP mode.
Where:
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111111 – The last three octets of the on-air MAC address for a discovered AP.
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22 – The signal strength for the specified AP.
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33 – The channel number of the specified AP.
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444 – The beacon interval configured on the specified AP.
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Any/MyID – Softkey to toggle between "single SSID" and "any SSID" mode.
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Detl/Smry – Softkey to toggle between the multiple AP (summary) display, and the
single (detail) displays for each AP.
The following screen shows how the display would look when there are three APs
configured with an SSID that matches that of the Wireless IP Telephone. The first has a
signal strength of –28 dBm, is configured on channel 2, with a beacon interval of 100ms.
The second has a signal strength of –48 dBm, is configured on channel 6, with a beacon
interval of 200ms. The third has a signal strength of –56 dBm, is configured on channel
11 with a beacon interval of 100ms.
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