User's Guide

Planning Your Network Tree
Your network tree automatically includes your appliance and any other appliance that you have added
to your system. Each appliance can be expanded into a tree with five network levels and floors.
Available network levels are:
• Country
• Region
• City
• Campus
• Building
Deciding how to structure your network tree depends on:
• Whether you want to use triangulation for location tracking
• How you plan to apply policies to devices
• How the tree aects the scope in the UI
Triangulation Considerations
To use triangulation, you must load AirDefense appliance with a two-dimensional map of the floor your
sensors are located on. Maps must be loaded at the floor level. You cannot use triangulation over
multiple floors which means you cannot use sensors on dierent floors if you want to use triangulation.
Policy Considerations
When you are creating network levels, you should create profiles for similar devices that you expect to
share common policies. Although you can certainly apply policies at the device level, it is a good
practice to apply them at higher network levels, preferably at the appliance (AirDefense) level.
UI Scope Considerations
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