Table Of Contents - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave Manual

Preface.......................................................................................................................................................................5
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave | Best Practices Guide
Document Organization..................................................................................................................... 5
Note, Caution, and Warning Icons .................................................................................................. 6
Contacting Support ........................................................................................................................... 6
Overview ...............................................................................................................................7
Prerequisites for Integrating Dell PowerConnect W-Series Infrastructure............................. 7
Configuring AirWave for Global Dell PowerConnect W-Series Infrastructure.........9
Disabling Rate Limiting in AMP Setup > General.......................................................................... 9
Entering Credentials in Device Setup > Communication ............................................................. 9
Setting Up Recommended Timeout and Retries ......................................................................... 10
Setting Up Time Synchronization................................................................................................... 11
Setting up NTP on AirWave.................................................................................................... 11
Manually Setting the Clock on a Controller ......................................................................... 11
Enabling Support for Channel Utilization & Statistics ................................................................ 11
AirWave Setup.......................................................................................................................... 12
Controller Setup (Master & Local) ........................................................................................ 12
Configuring a Dell PowerConnect W Group in AMP ...................................................13
Basic Monitoring Configuration..................................................................................................... 13
Advanced Configuration.................................................................................................................. 14
Discovering Dell PowerConnect W-Series Infrastructure .........................................15
Discovering Master Controllers..................................................................................................... 15
Local Controller Discovery.............................................................................................................. 17
Thin AP Discovery ............................................................................................................................ 17
AMP and Dell PowerConnect W-Series Integration Strategies................................19
Integration Goals .............................................................................................................................. 19
Example Use Cases.......................................................................................................................... 20
When to Use Enable Stats ...................................................................................................... 20
When to Use WMS Offload .................................................................................................... 20
When to Use RTLS.................................................................................................................... 20
When to Define AMP as Trap Host ....................................................................................... 20
When to use Channel Utilization............................................................................................ 20
Prerequisites for Integration .......................................................................................................... 21
Enable Stats Utilizing AMP ............................................................................................................. 21
WMS Offload Utilizing AMP............................................................................................................ 22
Define AMP as Trap Host using ArubaOS CLI............................................................................. 22
ArubaOS Traps Utilized by AMP ............................................................................................ 23
Auth Traps ......................................................................................................................... 23
IDS Traps ........................................................................................................................... 23
ARM Traps......................................................................................................................... 24
Ensuring That IDS & Auth Traps Display in AMP Using CLI ............................................. 24
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