Site Survey Menu; System Counters - Black Box LW0050A Manual

PRO 11 SERIES WIRELESS ETHERNET

3.6 Site Survey Menu

Pro 11 Series (Workstation Bridge)
Version: 4.4.1
Date: 26 May 1999 15:46:24
Site Survey menu
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1 - System Counters

2 - Survey Software
3 - Event Log
4 - Display Neighboring APs
Select option >
The Site Survey Menu allows performing a site survey that helps you position your
units and align their antennas of the units, as well as perform troubleshooting.
3.6.1 S C
YSTEM OUNTERS
The System counters are a simple yet efficient tool for monitoring, interpreting,
and analyzing the Wireless LAN performance. The counters contain statistics
concerning Wireless and Ethernet frames. The submenu contains the following
options:
• Display Ethernet and WLAN Counters – Choose this option to display the
current value of the Ethernet and Wireless counters. Read further in Section
3.6.1 for a detailed description of the counters.
• Display Rate Counters — Displays contents of packets at each rate. The Access
Point displays counters per station.
• Display Rx Packets per Frequency — Histogram of the number of frames
received on each channel.
• Reset Counters – Choose this option to reset all the counters. After choosing
this option, you will be requested to type 1 for confirmation or 0 to cancel the
reset.
• Power-Saving Counters — Displays the power-saving counters per station, the
number of transmitted frames, and the number of discarded frames. This
applies only to Access Points.
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Figure 3-4. Site Survey Menu.