Setting Up Time Synchronization; Enabling Support For Channel Utilization & Statistics; Awms Setup - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave Manual

Setting Up Time Synchronization

CAUTION: If you are using SNMPv3 and the controller's date/time is incorrect, the SNMP agent will not respond to SNMP
requests from AWMS SNMP manager. This will result in the controller and all of its downstream access points showing down in
AWMS.
Leveraging NTP for your Dell PowerConnect W infrastructure and your AWMS server is recommended to ensure
time synchronization.
To set recommended timeout and retries settings, follow these steps:
1. In the Device Setup > Communication page, locate the SNMP Setting section.
2. Change SNMP Timeout setting to 60.
3. Change SNMP Retries to 1.
Figure 4 Time sync settings in Device Setup > Communication
4. Select Save.
Enabling Support for Channel Utilization & Statistics
In order to enable support for channel utilization statistics, you must have the following:
AWMS 7.2 or greater
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Dell PowerConnect ArubaOS 6.0.1 or greater
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NOTE: Dell PowerConnect ArubaOS 6.0.1 can report RF utilization metrics, while Dell PowerConnect ArubaOS 6.1 is necessary to
also obtain classified interferer information.
Access points - Dell PowerConnect W-AP105, W-AP92, W-AP93, W-AP125, or W- AP124
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Controllers - Dell PowerConnect W 6xx, 3xxx, and 6000 Controller Series
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AWMS Setup

Follow these steps in AWMS:
1. Navigate to AMP Setup > General.
2. In the Additional AMP Services section, set Enable AMON Data Collection to Yes, as shown in
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Figure 5: