Selecting The Active Profile - Cisco CB21AG Installation And Configuration Manual

Selecting the Active Profile

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The first profile in the Auto Selected Profiles box has the highest priority while the last profile has the
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lowest priority. To change the order (and priority) of your auto-selectable profiles, select the profile that
you want to move and click Move up or Move down to move the profile up or down, respectively.
Click OK to save your changes.
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When auto profile selection is enabled (see the
instructions), the client adapter scans for an available network. The profile with the highest priority and
the same SSID as one of the found networks is the one that is used to connect to the network. If the
connection fails, the client adapter tries the next highest priority profile that matches the SSID and so on.
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Selecting the Active Profile

Follow the steps below to specify the profile that the client adapter is to use.
You can use ASTU instead of the ADU Profile Manager to select the active profile. Refer to
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for instructions.
Step 1 Open ADU and click the Profile Management tab. The Cisco Aironet Desktop Utility (Profile
Management) window appears (see
Perform one of the following:
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Profiles cannot specify multiple SSIDs; otherwise, they do not appear in the Available
Profiles box.
Each profile that is included in auto profile selection must have a unique SSID. For example,
if Profile A and Profile B both have "ABCD" as their SSID, only Profile A or Profile B (whichever
was created first) appears in the Available Profiles box and can be included in auto profile
selection.
To remove a profile from auto profile selection, select the profile in the Auto Selected Profiles
box and click Remove. The profile is removed from the Auto Selected Profiles box.
When you enable auto profile selection, the client adapter scans all wireless modes (5 GHz, 54
Mbps; 2.4 GHz, 11 Mbps; and 2.4 GHz, 54 Mbps) for an available network. The client ignores
the selected profile's wireless mode setting, which was configured on the ADU Profile
Management (Advanced) window. Using this method, the client does not need to drop the
current connection nor change the current profile while looking for networks in other profiles.
"Selecting the Active Profile"
Select one profile for the client adapter to use either by double-clicking that profile in the profiles
list or by clicking that profile in the profiles list and then clicking Activate.
If the client adapter cannot associate (or establish a connection) to an access point (in infrastructure
mode) or another client (in ad hoc mode) or loses association while using the selected profile, the
adapter does not attempt to associate using another profile. To associate, you must select a different
profile or enable auto profile selection.
"Selecting the Active Profile"
section below to enable auto profile selection.
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Chapter 4 Using the Profile Manager
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