Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User manual

Dell PowerConnect W
AirWave 7.1
Visual RF and Visual RF Plan
User Guide

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Table of Contents
Overview................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Basic QuickView Navigation .............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Process Detailed in Document......................................................................................................................................................... 10
Setup and Tuning the VisualRF Engine............................................................................................................................................ 11
Creating Campuses and Buildings ................................................................................................................................................... 17
Importing a Floor Plan........................................................................................................................................................................ 20
Provisioning Existing Access Points onto the Floor Plan ............................................................................................................. 25
Increasing Location Accuracy ......................................................................................................................................................... 27
Viewing Floor Plans and Utilizing QuickView ................................................................................................................................. 33
Pre-deployment Planning and Provisioning ................................................................................................................................... 39
Location Probability Regions ............................................................................................................................................................ 45
Adding an IDF..................................................................................................................................................................................... 46
Appendix A – VisualRF and Performance....................................................................................................................................... 47
Appendix C – AP Deployment Planning for Location Accuracy .................................................................................................. 51
Appendix D – Batch Floor Plan Upload Wizard.............................................................................................................................. 52
Appendix E – MMS to AMP Floor Plan Conversion....................................................................................................................... 55
Appendix F – Import Floor Plans from an Aruba Controller.......................................................................................................... 57
Appendix G – VisualRF Location API ............................................................................................................................................... 58
Appendix H – VisualRF Diagnostics................................................................................................................................................. 60
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Overview
The VisualRF module is an add-on to the Dell PowerConnect W AirWave Wireless Management Suite
(AWMS) that provides a real-time picture of the actual radio environment of your wireless network and
the ability to plan the wireless coverage of new sites.
To understand what is happening on your wireless network, you need to know where your users and
devices are located – and you need to monitor the RF environment in those areas. The VisualRF
module puts this information at your fingertips through integrated mapping and location data.
VisualRF uses sophisticated RF fingerprinting to accurately display coverage patterns and calculate the
location of every wireless device in range. Moreover, VisualRF does not require dedicated RF sensors or
a costly additional location appliance – all the necessary information is gathered from your existing
wireless access points and controllers.
Features
•Floor plan upload wizard enables direct importation of JPEG, GIF, PNG, and CAD files for floor
plans.
•Batch upload wizard enables batch uploads of multiple CAD files with corresponding walls, and
access points.
•Accurate calculation of the location of all client devices (laptops, RFID Tags, PDAs, Phones) using
RF data from your existing APs and controllers. Location accuracy increases with higher density,
providing more data points to triangulate the location of each device. Further improvements in
accuracy can be achieved with site surveys.
•3D navigation allows your Help Desk to view floor plans simply by clicking on the appropriate
campus, building, or floor.
•Tree view allows customer to navigate to a specific campus, building, or floor via a tree navigation.
•Heatmaps depict the strength of RF coverage in each location
•Color-coded channel maps help you reduce interference and quickly identify or detect potential
coverage holes.
•Data rate view which depicts the highest possible data rate at every location on a floor plan.
•Integrates with the Dell PowerConnect W AirWave Wireless Management Suite for onscreen
display of alerts and error conditions (i.e., an AP icon will display in red when a critical alert is active
or when usage conditions exceed pre-defined thresholds)
•Location playback viewer which allows visual tracking of up to 24 hours of location history.
•Dynamically recalculates path loss and device locations based on real-time data from your wireless
LAN, for increased location accuracy.
•Calibrates RF data from multiple vendors’ APs (and across different product lines from the same
vendor) for accurate display even in multi-vendor and multi-architecture environments.
•Full planning capabilities based on data rate or signal requirements.
•Google Earth integration for depiction of outdoor coverage and device location.
Useful Terms
•VisualRF – The service within AMP that calculates location, calculates path loss, and provides floor
plan editing capabilities.
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•VisualRF Plan – Makes the planning portions of VisualRF available in an offline software package
that does not require a server.
•QuickView – Flash front-end for VisualRF which displays information generated by the backend
service.
•mW – 1/1000 of a Watt. It is a linear measurement (always positive) generally used to represent
transmission.
•dB (Decibels) – difference/ratio between two signal levels.
•dBm – dB as compared to 1 mW. It is a logarithmic measurement (integer) which is typically used
in place of mW to represent receive-power level. AMP normalizes all signals to dBm, so it easy to
evaluate performance between various vendors
•RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) - IEEE defines RSSI is a mechanism by which RF
energy is to be measured by the circuitry on a wireless NIC (0-255). RSSI is not standard across
vendors. Each vendor determines their own RSSI scale/values.
•AP-to-AP Signal (Neighbor) – Some APs/Controllers have the ability to report the signal strength
of APs that they hear. AMP utilizes these signal strength readings to dynamically attenuate floors
plans thus making client locations and heat maps more accurate.
•Unassociated Client Information – Some APs/Controllers have the ability to report the signal
strength clients they hear, but are not associated with a radio on the AP. AMP utilizes these signal
strength readings to more accurately place clients.
•Client Surveys – Client surveys are facilitated completely within VisualRF and utilize access points
to understand which clients they hear and at what signal strength.
•Rogue Surveys – Rogue surveys are facilitated by AMC and VisualRF and utilize the client’s radio
to understand which access points they hear and what signal strength.
AWMS is the only WLAN management application that understands unique RF characteristics for
every enterprise WLAN manufacturer. This includes receive sensitivity at all data rates, antenna
characteristics, and supported transmit power levels for every architecture and individual model. AMP
normalizes signal metrics which might come as RSSI or SNR into dBm enabling customers to visualize
and compare different vendors, models, and architectures.
Figure 1. “Sample Vendor Specific Implementation of RSSI”
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Basic QuickView Navigation
QuickView is designed to be very intuitive with easy to use pull down menus. The RF pull down menus
are split into two major categories, display toggles and editing tools.
Display Toggles
Overlays – select which overlay to view
•Channel – provides channel interferences by color and PHY
•Wired Range – Displays the distance an Ethernet cable can be pulled from an IDF. The max range
is equal to 300 feet minus 5 percent minus 1.1 times the floor height.
•Voice – provides coloring based on number of radios covering each grid cell with a minimum of -70
dBm of signal and assuming a client transmit power of 100 mW.
•Sensor Coverage – provides the farthest area which a sensor can hear.
•Heatmap – provides the highest dBm (energy level) for all areas of a floor plan.
•Data Rate – provides the highest data rate a user will receive for all areas of a floor plan.
•Show Overlays From – combines all floors APs selected to show the highest achievable signal for
each grid cell on the floor.
Floor Above – show the heatmap from APs located on the floor above
This Floor (default)
Floor Below – show the heatmap from APs located on the floor below
Overlays Control Widget – provides ability to increase or decrease the current overlay
•Heatmap (RSSI Ring) – Evaluate coverage based on signal levels.
•Channel Overlay (Data Rate Slider) – Evaluate coverage based on data rate.
•Data Rate (User Xmit) – Evaluate coverage based on xmit power of client.
Display
•Sensors – Toggle sensors on or off. Note: off by default on all views.
•Regions – Toggle regions on or off. Note: off by default on all views.
•Surveys – Toggle surveys on or off. Note: off by default on all views.
•Walls – Toggle walls on or off. Note: on by default on all views.
•Users – Toggle wireless users on or off. Note: on by default on all views.
•Tags – Toggle WiFi Tags on or off. Note: off by default on all views.
•Labels – Toggle labels on or off. Note: off by default on all views.
•Rogues – Toggle surveys on or off. Note: off by default on all views.
•Relational Lines Sub-menu – expanded by clicking on the down arrow
Wired – Toggle lines between APs/sensors and their IDF.
Mesh – Toggle lines between Mesh portals and nodes.
Survey – Toggle lines between client (x,y) to APs by client during survey.
Rogue – Toggle lines between rogue AP and radios which hear the AP
User Neighbors – Toggle lines between client and radios which hear the client excluding
the radio of association.
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AP Neighbors – Toggle lines between APs which heard each other.
Tag Neighbors – Toggle lines between WiFi Tags and radios which hear the Tags. For
Tags there is no radio of association.
User Association – Toggle line between the wireless user and AP of association.
Note: All 2.4 GHz lines are blue and 5 GHz lines are green. If both PHYs apply to a line then it is yellow.
Frequency & PHY – select the desired frequency and PHY
•2.4 GHZ (lines are always blue)
11b
11g
11ng
•5 GHz (lines are always green)
11a
11na
Options – Buttons
•Refresh – Refresh client locations.
•Report Browser – View location accuracy batches or generated BOM reports.
•Preferences – Provides ability to configure user preferences (overlay types, grid lines, alerts, icon
sizes). User preferences are stored per browser. They can vary between users and between
browsers.
•General
Enable Auto-Refresh – Will refresh data in the quick view at the specified interval.
Show grid lines and size – Will overlay grid lines at the specified location making it easier
to judge distance.
Show scale – Enable or disable the scale that is displayed in the bottom of the quick view.
•APs
AP Triggers preferences
Display channel in AP label
Display transmit power in AP label
AP icon size
•Users
User Trigger preferences
User icon size
•Overlays – Specify how the overlays should be displayed. Vector will display a smoother image and
break down the overlay into ~5 buckets. Grid will display a higher granularity but will be broken
up into square cells.
Heatmap
Channel
Data Rate
Sensor
Voice
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•Navigation
Campus and Building Trigger preferences
Campus, Building, and Floor icon size Vector
•Locate Now – Queries the AP or controllers for user signal information and recalculates all client
locations. This is different from the Refresh button which does not query the AP or controller.
Icons Description
Refresh Refresh the floor plan to see changes
Report Browser Launch report browser to very location batches or BOMs
Preferences Configure personal viewing preferences
Locate Now Relocate all clients by query controller for client signal info
Edit Tools
Icons Description
Set Orientation Set Orientation for proper vertical floor plan alignment.
Delete Survey Remove all surveys (rogue and client) on floor plan.
Resize Floor Change the size of the floor plan.
Plan APs Manually plan APs onto a floor plan (APs not managed by AWMS).
Delete APs Remove all access points on a floor plan.
Provision APs Provision APs onto a floor plan (APs managed by AWMS).
Add Walls Add walls onto a floor plan.
Edit Lock Edit floor plans by locking of a floor plan by locking it.
Add Regions Add regions onto a floor plan. Region types include Planning, IDF, Location
Probability, Location Testing and Informational.
Additionally there are a couple of other controls within QuickView. In the bottom left corner of the
window is the search box and legend pushup. In the top right corner is the zoom control. You can also
zoom by using your mouse wheel as well or the ‘+ and –‘ keys. In the bottom right corner are
breadcrumbs related to network, campus, and building.
Figure 2. “Basic Navigation”
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General Navigation Tips
•Search – Use the search box in the bottom left of the window to quickly find a wireless client, AP,
or rogue device displayed on the floor plan. Search will do substring matches on username, MAC
address and model.
•Left Click – right clicking on an object will display monitoring statistics about that object
•CTRL Left Click – select multiple objects for deleting or simulating failure
•Left Click Hold – enables panning on the floor plan or background image
•Right Click – left clicking on an object will allow you to edit that object
•CTRL+ALT+Shift+X+M+L – displays the XML behind Flash output which is useful for
debugging
•Roll Mouse Wheel – zooms in or out of a floor plan or campus, building view
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Process Detailed in Document
1. Setup and Tuning the VisualRF Service – enabling the service and ensure the proper performance
characteristics
2. Configure QuickView Personal Preferences – configure RF toggles
3. Creating Campuses and Buildings – each floor must be associated with a building and campus
4. Importing a Floor Plan – the Floor Plan Importation Wizard walks through several steps
Background image importation
Image cropping
Image sizing
Assign image properties: floor number, name, number of grid cell size, and other floor plan
information
Note: support for all versions of CAD (dwg, dxf, and dwf) files versions 1999 – 2010.
5. Provisioning Existing Access Points onto Floor Plan – drag and drop
6. Increasing Accuracy -- Dell only recommends drawing interior walls for planning purposes.
Drawing Walls – only need to incorporate exterior walls, because VisualRF will
automatically calculate interior Path Loss.
Client Training for Stationary Devices – used for desktop or other stationary wireless
devices
Remote Client Surveys – the ability to remotely survey the RF environment via any
wireless client connected to the network. Provides additional RF inputs for low-coverage
areas.
Fine Tuning Location Service – grid cell size and deviation variation
Ensure RF Data Frequency – configuring AMP and the infrastructure to provide timely RF
statistics
AP placement for capacity versus location accuracy
7. Viewing Floor Plans and Utilizing QuickView
User View
AP View
Floor Plan View
Network ÆCampus ÆBuild View
Tree View
8. Pre-deployment Provisioning and Planning
Manually provision access points onto floor plan
Automatically provision access points onto floor plan
Replicate floor plan vertically
Print BOM report
Export campus
Import exported campus
Match access points
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Setup and Tuning the VisualRF Engine
The VisualRFÆSetup page configures advanced setting for the VisualRF service. Please reconfigure
these settings very carefully, because these settings can impact your server’s performance as well as your
location accuracy.
Note: Clicking on the ‘save’ button will cause the VisualRF service to restart disrupting or delaying the usability for
up to 5 minutes.
Figure 3. "VisualRF Setup Page"
To enable the VisualRF service and tune memory and performance navigate to the Server Setting
section on this page.
Setting Default Description
Enable VisualRF Engi
n
No Enables or disables the VisualRF engine. This setting must be
enabled to use VisualRF. If you do not have a license for the
VisualRF service, this page will not appear.
Enable Multi
-
floor bl
e
through
Yes Enables or disables calculating the impact APs on floors above and
below the currently viewed floor in the Quick View.
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Dynamic
Attenuation
Yes Dynamic attenuation will incorporate AP to AP readings as well as
site survey information and dynamically recalculate the path loss of
each radio to every grid cell on the floor plan, increasing coverage
and location accuracy.
Use Metric Unit
s
No This setting instructs the VisualRF engine to display all units of
measurements in Metric
Memory
Allocation
512 MB This is the amount of memory dedicate to the VisualRF service. It is
not dynamically allocated and all the memory is consumed upon
starting the service. Be sure to check the memory and swap
utilization in the Systems ÆPerformance page before making any
changes. The exact amount of memory used per floor plan will vary
heavily based on the size, number of devices and number of grid
cells on the floor plan.
•25 floors or less 512 MB
•50 to 75 floors 1 GB
•75 to 100 floors 1.5 GB
•100 to 200 floors 3GB
•200 to 300 floors 5 GB (64-bit only)
•Above 300 8 GB (64-bit only)
Note: If you see “Out of Memory” errors in the SSL error log on the
System Æ Status page you should increase memory allocation.
Core Thread
s
1 times
number of
cores
Number of threads that calculate path loss for each floor. These
threads also regenerate a floor’s RF properties when new APs,
walls, or regions are added to a floor plan.
Location Cachin
g
Threads
1 times
number of
cores
Number of threads that calculate the location of all clients
associated with access points on this floor plan.
UI Thread
s
1 times
number of cores
Number of threads that service users accessing QuickView as well
as AMP to VisualRF communication.
Note: If users experience timeout errors while using QuicKView then
allocate additional UI Threads.
Synchronization
Timer
15 minutes This timer indicates how often VisualRF will synchronize state (new
APs and Security) with AWMS.
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To tune location accuracy, navigate to the Location Setting section on this page.
Setting Default Description
Allowed Deviation
for
Client Placement
4 dB When VisualRF locates a client or rogue it utilizes signal metrics from all
the APs that hear the client or rogue device. VisualRF builds a fingerprint
location for all clients with similar transmit-power capability. All
subsequent clients that fall within the deviation will be placed on the same
location fingerprint or x, y coordinates.
Example: AP1 hears client1 at -72 and AP2 hears client 1 at -64. VisualRF
calculates the client’s location to be at coordinates 100, 200. Client2 is
heard by AP1 at -71 and AP2 at -65. VisualRF will use the average of the
difference in signals (AP1 -72 and -71) to see if the client matches a pre-
calculated location fingerprint. 1 + 1 (differences in signals) / 2 (# of APs) =
1 which falls within the deviation of 2, hence the client would be located at
100,200.
Maximum
Rogue APs
per Floor Plan
20 Sets the maximum number of rogues AMP will place on a Floor.
Use this filter in combination with the RAPIDS Export Threshold configured
on the RAPIDSÆSetup page to intelligently control the number of rogue
devices displayed per floor.
Note: Increasing this value could increase the load on the server and the
clutter on the screen.
To tune the frequency for calculating device locations within the VisualRF UI navigate to the Location
Calculation Timer Settings section.
Setting Default Description
Legacy Laptop Min/
M
(sec):
90/360 This timer determines how often to calculate location for legacy laptop
devices. Taken with the data samples the calculation would follow:
After minimum timer (90 seconds) check to see if the number of data
samples received from all APs that hear this client are greater than or
equal to the number of samples setting for legacy laptop devices (Default
of 3 data samples).
If so (Yes to question above) then recalculate the client device’s location
based on the samples received.
If not (No to the question above) then wait until the number of sample
setting is met and recalculate. If the number of samples is never met, wait
until the maximum timer (360 seconds) and recalculate.
Legacy Laptop
Number of
Samples
3 See definition above.
All of the other device types use the same methodology as detailed above.
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To tune the wall settings within the VisualRF UI navigate to the Wall Attenuation Settings section.
When tuning the VisualRF server be sure to utilize the default settings as recommend below. If you do
change any of these setting above, change one at a time and see how the system performs. Each time
you restart the VisualRF service it will take at least 30 minutes to return to normal processing.
Setting Default Description
Glass
Attenuation (dB)
2 Specifies the attenuation for any glass walls that are drawn in VisualRF.
Note: All of these values are global variables that can’t be overridden for
individual floor plans. These values are utilized by the VisualRF service to
calculate path loss and client locations. Walls within VisualRF are
interpreted as pure dB loss without adjusting for wall thickness.
Cubicle Attenuation (dB) 4 Specifies the attenuation for any cubicle walls that are drawn in VisualRF.
Drywall Attenuation (dB) 6 Specifies the attenuation for any drywall walls that are drawn in VisualRF.
Concrete Attenuation (dB) 15 Specifies the attenuation for any concrete walls that are drawn in VisualRF.
If you use ‘top’ command to check on VisualRF resource utilization ensure you use the ‘1’ and ‘H’ flags
to show cores and threads. Remember ‘top’ also takes 1-2 minutes to normalize and provide accurate
data.
It is normal for VisualRF to consume 20% of each core with a combination of threads. It will utilize
excess CPU cycles on all cores when required.
Figure 4. “Example top Output”
Figure 5. “Example Threading”
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Figure 6. System Performance Graphs
On the System ÆPerformance page you can quickly determine if the system is overloaded. The system
ad should not average more than the number of cores. In this case the server is averaging a little lesslo
than two. With four cores, the server is averaging less than half capacity. The CPU usage graph
indicates that system is 30%-40% loaded.
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Configuring QuickView Personal Preferences
Figure 7. “Personal Preferences”
To configure your personal preferences, click the Display pull down and click
on the preferences icon.
•General – select from preferences pull down
Enable auto-Refresh toggle
Refresh Interval in minutes
Show Grid Lines toggle
Grid Lines width (in feet) slider
Show Scale
Hide neighbor lines ignored in location calculation
Label transparency slider
•APs – select from preferences pull down
BW – select the kbps threshold for normal (green), high (yellow),
and excessive (red)
# of Users – select the number of users threshold for normal
(green), high (yellow), and excessive (red)
% of Uptime for the last 24 hours for normal (green) and
excessive (red)
Radio Status – display red or green depending on the status of
the radios within the AP.
AP Status – display red or green in relation to up/down status of
AP.
Show Channel in Label toggle.
Icon Size – select the size of the AP icon display on the floor
plan.
Show Transmit Power in Label.
•Users – select from preferences pull down
BW – select the kbps threshold for normal (green), high (yellow),
and excessive (red)
Signal Strength – select the dBm client threshold for excellent
(green), average (yellow), and poor (red).
Icon Size – select the size of the client device icon display on the
floor plan.
•Overlays – select type of overlay
Grid – non vector overlay
Vector – provides much smoother overlay with mouse-over capabilities
•Navigation – select from preferences pull down (campus and buildings)
% of APs Up for the last 24 hours for normal (green) and excessive (red)
Icon Size for campus, building and floor
Note: These preferences are stored in a Flash Shared Object analogous to a browser cookie and are remembered on
subsequent sessions in that browser. Changing browsers or machines will require reconfiguring the preferences.
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Creating Campuses and Buildings
Figure 8. “New Campus input”
Floors are associated with a building and buildings are associated with a
campus. In order to create a new floor, you must first create a campus
and building.
Create campus
1. Navigate to VisualRF ÆFloor Plans page
2. Right Click on the background
3. Select New Campus option
4. When the Create New Campus window appears enter the
following Campus information: Figure 9. “New Campus on map”
Campus name
User Transmit Power – used in auto placement of access
points onto floors within this campus
Enter Desired Data Rate – used in auto placement of
access points onto floors within this campus.
Note: Buildings and floors inherit transmit power and data rate from campus
Figure 10. “Select Background”
5. Click on the “OK” button to save. You will see a new
Campus icon appear on the campus canvas. (AMP ships with
a default campus and building.)
6. Add appropriate network geographical background or upload a
personalized image by right-clicking on the background.
Set Map – allows you to browser with Dell included maps.
Custom – launches the image upload wizard documented
below in the Importing Floor Plans section.
7. Drag the Campus icon to the appropriate location on the map
background.
Note: QuickView automatically saves background map images, campus
locations, building locations, and building types
Figure 11. “New Building input”
Create building
1. Click on the newly created Campus icon from the previous step. You
will drill into to a blank canvas without a background.
2. Right click on the background and select New Building
3. When the New Building window appears, enter the following
information:
Building name
Select Campus from pull down
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Enter Longitude and Latitude
Distance between floors
Attenuation between floors
User (client device) transmit power
Desired data rate
Address (optional)
Field Description
Buildin
g
Name of the building; located on an existing campus.
Campu
s
Pull down of all campuses configured on your AMP.
Longitude &
Latitude
These fields are used to represent a building on Google Earth.
Distance between
Floors
The normal distance between floors in the building. This value can be overridden as each floor is
created, but this will be the default value for every new floor added to the system. This data
element can be imported or exported to external planning tools like Ekahau. It is not currently
utilized by AWMS and VisualRF.
Attenuation
between Floors
Enter the attenuation loss in decibels between floors. This value can be overridden as each floor is
created, but this will be the default value for every new floor added to the system. This data
element can be imported or exported to external planning tools like Ekahau. It is not currently
utilized by AWMS and VisualRF.
User Transmit
Power
This value is used when auto-provisioning access points onto a floor plan.
Desired Data Rat
e
Data rate will determine the new access points when auto-provisioning Greenfield deployment
Addres
s
Building or Campus address.
4. Click on the “OK” button to save. You will see a new Building icon appear in the middle of the
canvas.
5. Drag the Building icon to the appropriate location on the map background.
Note: QuickView automatically saves background map images, campus locations, building locations, and building types.
6. Add appropriate geographical background or upload a personalized image by right-clicking on the
background.
Set Map – allows you to browser with Dell included maps.
Custom – launches the image upload wizard documented below in the Importing Floor
Plans section.
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Figure 12. “New Building on map”
7. To change building types right click on building icon.
8. Select proper building type.
9. Click on the newly created Building icon from the previous step. You will be redirected to a blank
canvas without a background. You are now ready for Step #4.
Figure 13. Change Building
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Importing a Floor Plan
Import Floor Plan background image file.
1. Right click on the background image and select the “New Floorplan” option.
Figure 14. “Import floor plan image”
2. Browse your local file system by clicking on the “Browse” button to locate a floor plan image file.
3. Use the file system file browser window to select the proper file and click the “open” button
Figure 15. “Step 2 of the Floor Plan creation wizard”
If floor plan does not require cropping, sizing, or layer control, then click “Save and Close” to begin
provisioning APs or “Save and New” to upload a new floor plan.
If floor plan does require cropping, sizing, or layer control, then proceed through necessary steps 4.3 and
higher.
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