Aruba Ap Groups - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave Configuration Manual

Table 4 Device Setup > Aruba Configuration > Aruba AP Groups Details, Settings and Default Values
Field Default
General Settings
Folder
Top
Name
Default
WLANs
Add a new
N/A
WLAN
Show only
N/A
selected
Select WLANs
No WLANs
selected
by default
Referenced Profiles
802.11a Radio
5_am
Profile
802.11g Radio
2.4_am
Profile
RF Optimization
default
Profile
Event
default
Thresholds
Profile
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Description
Displays the folder with which the AP Group is associated. The drop-down menu displays all folders
available for association with the AP Group.
Folders provide a way to organize the visibility of device parameters that is separate from the
configuration groups of devices. Using folders, you can view basic statistics about device, and
define which users have visibility to which device parameters.
Enter the name of the AP Group.
Click this link to create a new WLAN to support Aruba Configuration. Once created, that new WLAN
will appear with others on this page.
To set the WLANs that appear on this page, select (check) the desired WLANs, then click Show
Only Selected.
Displays the WLANs currently present in Aruba Configuration. You may select as few or as many
WLANS as desired for which this AP Group is active.
To configure additional WLANs that appear in this section, click Add a new WLAN or navigate to
the WLANs section of the Aruba Configuration tool.
Defines AP radio settings for the 5 GHz frequency band, including the Adaptive Radio Management
(ARM) profile and the high-throughput (802.11n) radio profile.
Click the pencil icon next to this field to edit or create additional profile settings in the RF >
802.11a/g Radio page of Aruba Configuration. Click Save on this page to return to the Add AP
Group page.
Defines AP radio settings for the 2.4 GHz frequency band, including the Adaptive Radio
Management (ARM) profile and the high-throughput (802.11n) radio profile. Each 802.11a and
802.11b radio profile includes a reference to an Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) profile.
If you would like the ARM feature to select dynamically the best channel and transmission power for
the radio, verify that the 802.11a/802.11g radio profile references an active and enabled ARM
profile. If you want to manually select a channel for each AP group, create separate 802.11a and
802.11g profiles for each AP group and assign a different transmission channel for each profile.
The drop-down menu displays these options:
default
nchannel too high
nchannel too low
Click the pencil icon next to this field to edit profile settings in the RF > 802.11a/g Radio page of
Aruba Configuration. Click Save on this page to return to the Add AP Group page.
Enables or disables load balancing based on a user-defined number of clients or degree of AP
utilization on an AP. Use this profile to detect coverage holes, radio interference and STA
association failures and configure Received signal strength indication (RSSI) metrics.
Click the pencil icon next to this field to display the Profiles > RF section of Aruba Configuration,
and edit these settings as desired. Click Save on this page to return to the Add AP Group page.
Defines error event conditions, based on a customizable percentage of low-speed frames, non-
unicast frames, or fragmented, retry or error frames. The drop-down menu displays these options:
default
all additional RF profiles currently configured in Aruba Configuration
Click the pencil icon next to this field to display the Profiles > RF > Events Threshold section of
Aruba Configuration, and edit these settings as desired. Click Save on this page to return to the
Add AP Group page.
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