Real-time network monitoring allows RF Management to provide self-healing functions, providing
automatic mitigation from potentially problematic events such as radio interference, non-WiFi
interference (noise), external WiFi interference, coverage holes, and radio failures. Self-healing is used to
enable a WLAN to better maintain wireless client performance and site coverage during dynamic RF
environment changes, which would otherwise require manual reconfiguration to resolve.
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Floor Plans
Use Floor Plans to visualize a wireless deployment, plan device placement, and troubleshoot network
performance issues. The floor plan illustrates how the location of the AP affects network performance,
and illustrates AP location within a floor plan. Floor plans retrieve a list of all APs and associated clients
on the system with their current configurations. Use the floor plan to visualize AP performance based
on signal strength and channel assignment, and to verify network readiness within a floor plan. Floor
plan statistics are refreshed with a manual page refresh.
A floor plan is associated with the site. Work with floor plans under site configuration to import, export,
or configure a floor plan. View a configured floor plan from the Site dashboard page. You can also view
floor plans from the Client and Devices workbenches.
Toggle between floor plan Configuration and floor plan View:
•
From the floor plan View page, click
Configure Site
>
Floor Plans
to open the floor plan
Configuration page.
•
From the floor plan Configuration page, click
to display the floor plan View.
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Position Aware Services
Client location tracking is designed to manage a wireless environment and its resources. The Positioning
Engine works in conjunction with the ExtremeCloud Appliance floor plans to define specific areas for
Position Aware Services.
The Positioning Engine determines location based on measured Received Signal Strength (RSS) of the
client stations at the AP. The location algorithm uses RF fingerprinting based on a Path Loss model and
determines location by triangulating RSS reported from one or more APs.
Client Location Tracking is supported on AP39xx models only. Estimating location using readings from
multiple APs provides a more accurate location estimate. Estimating location using RSS from a single
AP is sufficient to determine the location of client in terms of proximity to the associated AP. The client
location is indicated on the map with an icon that is representative of the specific client type. The
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