Configuring Self Healing - Motorola RFS7000 Series System Reference Manual

5.6 Configuring Self Healing

The switch supports a feature called Self Healing that enables radios to take corrective action when one or
more radios fail. To enable the feature the user must specify radio neighbors that would self heal if either one
goes down. The neighbor radios do not have to be of the same type. Therefore, an 11bg radio can be the
neighbor of a 11a radio and either of them can self heal when one of them fails.
The switch initiates self healing when it looses communication with the access port or when another radio
(configured in detector mode) informs the switch a particular radio is not transmitting beacons.
To configure self-healing on the switch:
1. Select Services
2. Select the Enable Neighbor Recovery
Enabling Neighbor Recovery is required to conduct manual neighbor detection.
3. Refer to the Interference Avoidance
Enable Interference
Avoidance
Average Retries
Hold Time
> Self Healing from the main menu tree.
checkbox.
field to define the following settings:
When enabled, the switch is capable of switching channels on an
access port (Automatic Channel Selection) if interference is
observed on the current operating channel.
Displays the average number of retries for a MU to communicate
with a neighbor radio. Define a retry value between 0.0 and 15.0
retry attempts. Average Retries is a threshold value, when
exceeded ACS is initiated.
Set the interval (in seconds) that disables interference avoidance
after detection. The hold time prevents the radio from re-running
ACS continuously.
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