Setting Up Topology Maps - Black Box LWN602A User Manual

Chapter 9: Common Configuration Examples

9.1.1 Setting Up Topology Maps

In this example, you upload maps to SmartPath EMS showing floor plans for three office buildings and organize them in a hierar-
chical structure. You need to make .png of .jpg files of drawings or blueprints showing the layout of each floor. Also, as an easy
means of organizing the maps in the SmartPath EMS GUI, you create a file showing the three buildings HQ-B1, HQ-B2, and
Branch-1. By using this drawing at the top topographical level, you can display icons for each floor of each building. You can then
click an icon to link to its corresponding map. This is shown in Figure 9-2.
NOTE: Instead of using an illustration of buildings, you can also set the image of the root map as None and use the Add Wall tool
to draw three simple rectangles. This option is useful when you have floor plans but not an illustration depicting the
external buildings.
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x 8 4 SmartPath APs
Floors per Floor
64
SmartPath APs
Total
Corporate
Headquarters
HQ-B1
SmartPath EMS
(in "HQ-B1")
Figure 9-1. Deployment overview.
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x 8
Floors
VPN Tunnel
HQ-B2
2 SmartPath APs x 4
per Floor Floors
8 SmartPath APs
Total
Branch
Office
Branch1