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HotPoint 

Manual Revision 1.2 2011-01-20 
The contents of this Installation Guide are subject to change without notice. 
Please refer to the Firetide partners web site, partners.firetide.com, for current versions. 

Installation & Setup Guide

HotPoint 5000 Access Point 

FWC2050 WLAN Controller

 

HotPoint 5100 MIMO Indoor Access Point

HotPoint 5200 MIMO Outdoor Access Point

Summary of Contents for FWC2050

Page 1: ...are subject to change without notice Please refer to the Firetide partners web site partners firetide com for current versions Installation Setup Guide HotPoint 5000 Access Point FWC2050 WLAN Controller HotPoint 5100 MIMO Indoor Access Point HotPoint 5200 MIMO Outdoor Access Point ...

Page 2: ...EN WORKING AT HEIGHTS ABOVE GROUND Select equipment locations that will allow safe and simple installation Don t work alone A friend or co worker can save your life if an accident happens Don t attempt repair work when you are tired Not only will you be more careless but your primary diagnostic tool deductive reason ing will not be operating at full capacity Use approved non conducting ladders sho...

Page 3: ...irements 6 Logging In 6 Access Point Tab 7 Discovery 7 Configuration Tab 9 System Menu 9 Wireless 14 Security 18 Profiles 23 WLAN Network 26 Captive Portal 26 Monitoring 27 Controller 27 WLAN 31 Clients 31 Maintenance 32 User Management 32 Upgrade 33 Backup Restore 34 Reboot Reset 34 Remote Management 34 Logs Alerts 35 HotPoint 5000 Specifications 38 FWC2050 Specifications 39 Reset Procedure 39 Re...

Page 4: ... and applications on the same hardware Dual Radio Dual Band Support Each 5000 Series MIMO unit has two radios one operates on the 2 4 GHz band and the other on the 5 GHz band Outdoor and Indoor Operation Outdoor HotPoint 5200 access points have NEMA 4X IP67 rated cast aluminum enclosures and a weatherproof connector for attaching to a Firetide HotPort wireless mesh node or a conventional Ethernet ...

Page 5: ...lled in any indoor location The location should be selected based on antenna and coverage plans best RF performance is obtained with antennas connected directly to the HotPoint AP or with short good quality cables The HotPoint 5200 can be installed in any outdoor location Again location should be determined by antenna and coverage needs not by Ethernet or power availability Figure 2 Firetide HotPo...

Page 6: ...If your network has one it can be used If desired you can use the DHCP server built into the FWC2050 Logging In The default IP address for the FWC2050 is 192 168 224 250 Log in to your FWC2050 Wireless Management System administrative interface for the first time at http 192 168 224 250 using the default username admin and password password Firetide recommends that you change the user name and pas...

Page 7: ...l it is factory reset Managed APs will actively look for the Control ler after a reboot This process uses IP multicast and can work across multiple subnets if you enable multicast routing for address 224 0 100 250 between controller and the APs Alternately you can enable DHCP option 43 on the DHCP server and provide the con troller s IP address APs will get their address via this DHCP server and g...

Page 8: ...oyment Option 2 Add existing installed APs Add existing installed APs This option should be chosen in scenarios where APs are al ready deployed and running and need to be attached to a controller Depending upon the network topology you may need to provide the controller with a range of IP addresses to search during discovery When the process finishes you will be presented with a list of APs their ...

Page 9: ...ler Time Settings This page lets you configure the time related settings of your FWC2050 and managed Access Points Time Zone Select the appropriate local time zone for your region or country Current Time Shows the current time You cannot set the time you must use an NTP server NTP Client Defines the Network Time Protocol NTP server used to synchronize the clock of the FWC2050 and managed Access Po...

Page 10: ...he Management VLAN are not given any 802 1Q header when sent over the trunk If a port is in a single VLAN it can be untagged but if the port needs to be a member of multiple VLANs it must be tagged The Management VLAN value must be between 1 and 4094 Untagged VLAN When checked this option allows one VLAN to be configured as an untagged VLAN When the FWC2050 sends frames associated with the untagge...

Page 11: ...sed Subnet Mask Enter the subnet mask that will be assigned to clients by the Server Gateway IP Address Enter the IP address of the default gateway Starting IP Address Enter the starting IP address of the range that can be assigned by the Server Ending IP Address Enter the ending IP address of the range that can be assigned by the Server Use Default DNS Server This option allows the FWC2050 DNS se...

Page 12: ...hree elements Password Encrypts the Controller Key Controller Key The private key used by the Controller to decrypt messages Controller Certificate The public key of the Controller The default key is signed by Firetide CA Certificate The signed certificate of the Certificate Authority All keys and certificates are in PEM format ...

Page 13: ...og server is configured to listen to requests Alarm Actions This screen lets you define actions to be taken for the four defined alarm conditions For each condition you can do nothing write to syslog or generate an email to a defined email address Alarm Email Configuration Alarm messages via email require that a mail server be defined Server Address Enter the address or name of the mail server e g...

Page 14: ...ds leaving this setting at Auto RTS Threshold If the packet size is equal to or less than this threshold the data frame is transmitted immediately If the size is larger than the specified value then the transmitter must send out an RTS packet and then must wait for the receiving station to send back a CTS before sending the actual packet data Fragmentation Length This is the maximum packet size us...

Page 15: ...ls allowed according to Administration policies ACA can also be configured to not change channels on any Access Point through which there is data traffic or voice call traffic identified by the traffic in WMM voice priority queues Recommendations Selecting non overlapping channels for channel allocation is a good practice e g for 2 4 GHz use channels 1 6 11 Having channel allocation scheduled once...

Page 16: ...n Self Healing Maximum Number of neighboring access points which increase or de crease power to cover for a failing Access Point Selecting 0 disables this feature The number of neighbors to participate in healing should not be very large Three to four usually suffices in most deployments This avoids too many access points located close to increase power for a single failed Access Point Self healin...

Page 17: ...tion EDCA parameters Data 3 Voice The highest priority queue minimum delay ideal for VOIP and streaming media Data 2 Video The second highest priority queue low delay Video applications are routed to this queue Data 1 Background Low priority queue with high throughput Applications which are not time sensitive but require high throughput can use this queue Data 0 Best Effort The medium priority que...

Page 18: ...hbor Neighbor APs can be rogue until a client connects it is not possible to determine whether the AP is rogue or not Neighbor APs as well as rogue APs will be detected and maintained in the controller The controller also maintains current count of the rogue APs as well rogue APs seen in the last 24 hours All Neighbor as well as rogue APs will be displayed up to a maximum of 512 APs Neighbor and r...

Page 19: ...Firetide Reliable Connectivity Anywhere 19 January 2011 This is a sample rogue and neighbor screen ...

Page 20: ...int Click Delete to delete a wireless station from the Selected wireless clients table list Enter a MAC address and Click Add to add the MAC address of the wireless stations to the Selected wireless clients table list Available Wireless Stations This table lists the Wireless stations that are present in the vicinity of the Access Point Click Refresh to update this list in the table Select a statio...

Page 21: ...unting Server is used for accounting on the network The IP Address Port No and Shared Secret information is required to communicate with Radius Server The Shared Secret is shared between the Wireless Access Point and the Radius Server while authenticating the Wireless client Secondary Accounting Server A Secondary Accounting Server can be configured to use if the Primary Authentication Server fail...

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