Preparing The Smartpath Aps - Black Box SmartPath LWN602A User Manual

A floor icon labeled "HQ-B1-F2" appears on the CorpOffices image, and a new entry named "HQ-B1-F2" appears nested
under "CorpOffices" in the navigation tree.
6. Select the icon and drag it to the location you want.
After adding the CorpOffices "map" (really an illustration showing three buildings), two floor plans for the first and second
floors of "HQ-B1", and dragging the floor icons into position, the display of the CorpOffices map looks similar to that in Figure
9-4.
The submaps in the
navigation tree and
the icons on this map
link to other maps.
Click a submap or
double-click an icon
to open the map to
which it links.
Figure 9-4. CorpOffice map (Level 1) with links to Level-2 maps HQ-B1-F1 and HQ-B1-F2.
7. Repeat this process until you have arranged all the maps and icons in place as shown in Figure 9-5.
NOTE: You can add up to seven levels to the map hierarchy. You can also remove maps as long as they do not have any submaps
or SmartPath AP icons on them. To remove a map from the hierarchy, right-click it in the Map Hierarchy list, select Remove
from the short-cut menu that pops up, and then click "Yes."

9.1.2 Preparing the SmartPath APs

There are several approaches that you can take when mapping the location of installed SmartPath AP devices. Two possible
approaches are presented below. The first approach ("Using MAC Addresses") allows you to install SmartPath APs without need-
ing to do any extra configurations, but you later have to match each SmartPath AP with the right map in SmartPath EMS VMA
manually. With the second approach ("Using SNMP"), SmartPath EMS VMA automatically assigns SmartPath APs to maps. This
approach does require a small amount of configuration of each SmartPath AP up front, but after the SmartPath APs form a
CAPWAP connection with SmartPath EMS VMA, the automatic assignment of SmartPath APs to their appropriate maps on
SmartPath EMS VMA occurs without any further effort.
Chapter 9: Common Configuration Examples
Figure 9-5. CorpOffice map with links to all Level-2 maps.
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