User's Guide

• If no Auto-Placement rules criteria match the device, it will be placed in the Unplaced Devices folder.
• IP based placement uses a single IP address for each device. The selected IP address for Auto-
Placement is the first available address on the following ordered list of IP addresses learned by
AirDefense.
◦ The first IP address on the list is the Devices Management IP Address. This is the IP address that
AirDefense uses to communicate with the device. Due to the use of NAT in the network, this IP
address may be dierent than the actual configured IP address of the device.
◦ The second IP address is the address that the switch provides to AirDefense for the AP. In
adaptive or adopted mode where the AP is discovered through the switch, the system will use
the IP address that the switch has provided for the AP. This IP address is only used by AirDefense
for this purpose and is not saved by AirDefense. It is not used as a configured or managed IP
address for the device, and it will not be displayed by AirDefense.
◦ The switch's IP address will be used for Auto-Placement of the AP if the previous two IP
addresses are not available. The switch's management address is the IP address that is used by
AirDefense to communicate with the switch. It may NOT be the switch's configured IP address.
View Auto-Placement Rules
Use the Auto-Placement Rules screen to view a list of auto-placement rules configured for this
AirDefense managed network. These rules determine where devices are placed in the network tree
when they are imported into the network.
Configuration
View Auto-Placement Rules
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