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2 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 lightweight access points. Thi s appliance tracks an y W i-Fi de vice, in cluding W i-Fi clients, standards-based W i-Fi active RFID tags, rogue access points, and client s.
3 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Calibr ation is the process whereb y sample signal strength measurements are physically tak en in the actual en vironments i.
4 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 The follo wing Cisco wireless LAN controllers are a vailable. The follo wing Cisco Aironet access points are a v ailable.
5 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Figur e 2 Location Det ermin ation Note T o add the location appliance, the W CS version with lo cation must be installed. Y ou cannot add the location appliance to t he WCS base version.
6 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 System Architecture Figure 3 Scale and V ariety of Devices System Architecture The location appliance integrates wi th Cisco's centralized wireless LAN architecture.
7 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Location-Based Services Overview Figur e 4 Syst em Archit ecture Access points can detect devices both on the channels wh er.
8 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements Rogue clients are simp ly all client de vices that are associated to rogue access points. Asset tags are any v endors' 802.11-based RF ID tags with in range of inf rastructure access points.
9 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Re quirements • AIR-ANT -5145V -R • AIR-ANT -5160V -R Access Point Placement T o determine the optimum location of all de vices in the wireless LAN co verage areas, you need to consider the access point density and location.
10 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements Figur e 6 Impro ved Location Accu r acy by Incr easing Density 3. In long and narro w cov erage areas, refrain from pl acing access points in a st raight line.
11 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Re quirements Figur e 8 Impro ved Location Accu rac y by Stagg erin g Ar ound P er i met er 5. Designing a location-a ware wireless LAN, while p lanning for v oice as well, is better done with a fe w things in mind.
12 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements the build ings that compri se that campus, and the floors of each buil ding constitute a single netw ork design.
13 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Re quirements Step 6 Check to enable the Maintain Aspect Ra tio check box. Enabling this check box causes the horizontal span of the campus to be 5000 feet and adjusts the v ertical span according to the image f ile’ s aspect ratio.
14 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements Figur e 12 Repositioni ng Building High light ed in Blue Step 12 WCS is then returned to the campus image with the newly created b uilding highlighted in a green box.
15 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Re quirements Step 14 Enter the building’ s name , contact inf ormation , number of floors and basements , and dimension information. Click OK . WCS is returned to the Mon itor > Maps windo w .
16 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements Step 21 At the new floor ’ s image windo w (Monitor > Maps > [CampusName] > [Build ingName] > [FloorName]), go to the drop- do wn menu on the upper right and choose Add Access Poin ts .
17 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Re quirements Creating and Applying Calibration Models If the provided RF models do not suf ficiently.
18 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Deployment and Design Requirements Step 7 When the chosen floor map and acces s point locations are presented, a grid of dots indicates the locations where data collection for calibratio n is performed.
19 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Configuring th e Location Appliance Step 10 When all the raw data collection has been performed, the model must be compiled to allo w WCS and the location appliance to use the data for the understa nding of RF attenuation ch aracteristics.
20 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Configuring the Location App liance #service network restart 5. V erify that the new IP addressi ng works properly and that the location ap pliance has connecti vity back to the WCS by pi nging the WCS’ IP address.
21 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Configuring th e Location Appliance Figure 1 9 Synchronizing Controllers Step 17 If the network diagram is prop erly synchronized, tw o green arrows appear under the Sync. Status col umn for each diagram.
22 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Location Appliance Maintenance Step 2 On the left choo se Administration and then click P olling Para meters . Step 3 Click to check the check boxes to the left of each desired polling parameter .
23 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Troubleshooting Tips Q & A Restoring the Location Appliance T o restore a prev iously made backup, na vigate to Locate > Location Servers and click the hyperlink of the location appliance to be restored .
24 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Troubl eshooting T ips Q & A A. By default, th e location appliance polls control l ers for de vice information e very 5-15 minu tes, depending on device type.
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 av ailable location appliances.
26 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Dep loyment Guide OL-8478-01 Troubl eshooting T ips Q & A A. The network load from location traff ic de pends on a num ber of factors: – ho w man.
27 Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide OL-8478-01 Troubleshooting Tips Q & A Q. Ho w long do W iFi tags last? A. T ag battery life is a f unction of specif ic device ba tt ery longe vity , as well as how often the y beacon or blink.
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