Introduction
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) integrates networking and radio communications technologies. WLAN solutions are easy to install and extend, easy to use, free of complex cabling, and provide mobility. These advantages explain WLAN's wide adoption and continued growth.
WSM works with the Intelligent Management Center (INC) and Intelligent Control Configuration (iCC) to provide a total solution for WLAN management. WSM provides device-related wireless parameter configuration and wireless performance monitoring, INC provides general network management functions, and iCC provides device configuration, file management, and software updates.
Features
This introduction discusses WSM modules and their functions.
- WLAN Overview displays statistics of wireless devices (including ACs, fat APs, and fit APs), clients (by vendor, OS, and client type), client count and AP bandwidth trends, top N queries, fit AP models, wireless alarm statistics, unrecovered wireless alarms, clients by radio types, reasons for association failures, and rogue device information.
- Fast WLAN Deployment allows you to configure all WLAN parameters on one page to fast deploy a WLAN.
- Resource Management allows you to browse and manage wireless devices by type.
- View Management provides location views, custom views, and the GIS view.
The first step in building a WLAN with WSM is collecting information about the resources that will be part of the WLAN. You can use location views to browse and manage wireless devices by location.
You can create wireless custom views, each of which includes an AC and multiple APs attached to the AC. You can define contents for the custom view to easily locate the desired devices.
On the GIS map, you can represent location views by hotspots and locate APs. You can also edit location information for hotspots on the GIS map.
- GIS locating enables you to view hotspot locations on Mapbar map and locate fit APs, fat APs, and online clients..
- RF Management calculates and draws the RF coverage map for APs according to the following factors:
- Radio type
- Transmission rate
- Signal attenuation (due to concrete walls, glass windows, doors, and other surrounding environments)
The APs can be sorted by signal strength, access rate, or channel.
- Configuration Management provides the following functions:
- Wireless Monitoring Settings: Bulk configure the monitoring indexes for reports, Web services, and the WSM Overview module.
- Fit AP Group: Assign fit APs to different groups and grant operation rights to the groups.
- AP Model Management: Add, modify, and delete an AP model, and display basic information about a specific AP model.
- Antenna Management: Add, modify, and delete an antenna, and display information about an antenna.
- Threshold Configuration: Allows you to set thresholds for the wireless performance indexes. WSM generates alarms when the collected data exceeds the thresholds for the selected items.
- EIA Parameter Configuration: Configure EIA parameters.
- Endpoint Identification Management: Enables WSM to manage identification of clients to display their manufacturer, type, and operating system information in the client list.
- Wireless Device Configuration: Manage configuration for wireless devices, including AC configuration, AP configuration, and policy configuration.
- Energy Policy Management allows you to configure and manage energy policies, such as scheduling the start and stop time of APs, configuring radios of APs, adjusting the transmitting power of APs, and scheduling the start and stop time of SSID services.
- Network Planning can plan the location and number of APs in your network before you deploy or extend a WLAN.
- Wireless Service Report enables you to view WSM service statistics by table and graph.
- Wireless Service Alarm enables you to view alarms of all levels, unrecovered alarms, and recovered alarms.
Get Started
For more information about the WSM process, see Operation Guide.