Airwave And Dell Powerconnect W-Series Integration Strategies; Integration Goals - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave Manual

This chapter describes strategies for integrating AirWave and Dell PowerConnect W-Series devices and contains
the following topics:
"Integration Goals" on page 15
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"Example Use Cases" on page 16
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"Prerequisites for Integration" on page 17
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"Enable Stats Utilizing AirWave" on page 17
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"WMS Offload with AirWave" on page 18
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"Define AirWave as a Trap Host using ArubaOS CLI" on page 18
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"Understanding WMS Offload Impact on Dell PowerConnect W-Series Infrastructure" on page 22
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Integration Goals

The following table summarizes the types of integration goals and strategies for meeting them in certain
architectural contexts:
Table 3
Integration Goals in All Masters or Master/Local Architectures
Integration Goals
Rogue And Client Info
Rogue containment only
Rogue And Client containment
Reduce Master Controller Load
IDS And Auth Tracking
Track Tag Location
Channel Utilization
Spectrum
Key integration points to consider include the following:
IDS Tracking does not require WMS Offload in an all-master or master/local environment.
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IDS Tracking does require enable stats in a master/local environment.
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WMS Offload will hide the Security Summary tab on master controller's web interface.
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WMS Offload encompasses enable stats or enable stats is a subset of WMS Offload.
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Unless you enable stats on the local controllers in a master/local environment, the local controllers do not
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populate their MIBs with any information about clients or rogue devices discovered/associated with their APs.
Instead the information is sent upstream to master controller.
Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.5 | Best Practices Guide
Chapter 5
AirWave and Dell PowerConnect W-
Series Integration Strategies
All Masters Architecture
ssh access to controllers
WMS Offload
Define AirWave as trap host
enable RTLS WMS Offload
enable AMON
enable AMON

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Master/Local Architecture
enable stats
ssh access to controllers
WMS Offload
WMS Offload debugging off
Define AirWave as trap host
enable RTLS WMS Offload
enable AMON
enable AMON