Compaq WL110, User Manual

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Monitoring your 11Mbps Wireless LAN Network 5-13
network. You can display these values only for the infrastructure
network to which you are actually connected.
When the list of
Observed Networks
does not show other networks, this means
that:
■
Your Client Manager station has been configured with a specific Network
Name.
■
This setting will not allow you to scan for/monitor other network
infrastructures. To do so, you will need to reconfigure your station to use the
Network Name “ANY”.
■
There are no other networks operational in the vicinity of your
Client Manager station, or
■
The neighboring networks have been “closed” to deny wireless compliant
devices to establish a radio connection when these devices have been
configured with:
— The network name “ANY”, or
— A zero-string SSID (the equivalent of the network name “ANY”).
For more information about “open” and “closed” networks, please consult
chapter 7 “Security”.
Log Settings Tab
You can record the Site Monitor measurement results to a log file, and use this
log file to more fully analyze the overall wireless coverage of your network. The
measurement data can be logged automatically at regular intervals or manually
upon user-command.
For more information on log files, see “Logging Measurement Data” on
page 5-14.
AP Names Tab
The
AP names
tab enables you to create a user-defined list of Access Point names
associated with the MAC address of the wireless network interface(s) of your
Access Points.
The field
AP name
in the Site Monitor window will display the value of the
System Name
parameter that has been assigned to the Access Point upon
configuration
1
.
To display this name it is required that your computer first establishes true data
connections with such Access Points. This means your computer did not yet:
■
Walk around
■
Use the
AP Names
tab
When you are running the Client Manager tool in site monitor mode, you can
use the
AP Names
tab to assign the Access Point name “on-the-fly” to any Access
Point MAC address that you spot.
1. To assign a system name to the Access Point, you will need the AP Manager program specify this name in the “SNMP
Parameters” window as pictured in Figure 8-6 on page 8-11.