Cisco 2700 - Manuals

6 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 System Architecture Figure 3 Scale and Variety of Devices System Architecture The location appliance integrates with Cisco's centralized wireless LAN architecture. The appliance sits out of the data path of the wireless LAN,...

7 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Location-Based Services Overview Figure 4 System Architecture Access points can detect devices both on the channels where they service clients and on all other channels by periodically scanning, while still providing uninter...

8 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements Rogue clients are simply all client devices that are associated to rogue access points. Asset tags are any vendors' 802.11-based RF ID tags within range of infrastructure access points. Dep...

9 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements • AIR-ANT-5145V-R • AIR-ANT-5160V-R Access Point Placement To determine the optimum location of all devices in the wireless LAN coverage areas, you need to consider the access point density...

11 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements Figure 8 Improved Location Accuracy by Staggering Around Perimeter 5. Designing a location-aware wireless LAN, while planning for voice as well, is better done with a few things in mind. M...

12 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements the buildings that comprise that campus, and the floors of each building constitute a single network design. The location appliance is set to poll the controllers in that network, as well ...

17 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements Creating and Applying Calibration Models If the provided RF models do not sufficiently characterize the floor layout, you can create a calibration model that is applied to the floor and be...

19 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Configuring the Location Appliance Step 10 When all the raw data collection has been performed, the model must be compiled to allow WCS and the location appliance to use the data for the understanding of RF attenuation char...

20 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Configuring the Location Appliance #service network restart 5. Verify that the new IP addressing works properly and that the location appliance has connectivity back to the WCS by pinging the WCS’ IP address. # ping [IP_Add...

21 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Configuring the Location Appliance Figure 19 Synchronizing Controllers Step 17 If the network diagram is properly synchronized, two green arrows appear under the Sync. Status column for each diagram. After synchronizing wit...

22 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Location Appliance Maintenance Step 2 On the left choose Administration and then click Polling Parameters . Step 3 Click to check the check boxes to the left of each desired polling parameter. Adjust the intervals if necess...

23 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Troubleshooting Tips Q & A Restoring the Location Appliance To restore a previously made backup, navigate to Locate > Location Servers and click the hyperlink of the location appliance to be restored. Select the file...

25 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Troubleshooting Tips Q & A A. When searching for a client or tag, WCS searches in all available location appliances. WCS reports the floor on which the tag is found, and history may show that it has been moving across c...