User's Manual

AppendixA:PlanningSensors

3Com®AirProtectPlannerUserGuide

AppendixA:PlanningSensors

InadditiontoPlanner,3ComCorporationalsohasacomplementaryproductcalled3Com®AirProtectEnterprise.3Com®

AirProtectEnterprisemonitorsandprotectsthecorporatenetworkthatincludesbothwiredandwirelessdevices.3Com®

AirProtectEnterpriseconsistsoftwomaincomponents—3Com®AirProtectEnterpriseServerand3Com®AirProtect

Enterprise

Sensors(Sensors).The3Com®AirProtectEnterpriseServeractsasadatabaseandthecoordinationcenterfor

variousSensors.SensorsareRFsniffingdevicesconnectedthroughoutthecorporatenetwork.3Com®AirProtectEnterprise

collectsinformationfrommultipleSensors.Ithastheintelligencetoaggregate,correlate,andanalyzeinformationfromthe

SensorsbeforepresentingitonaWebbrowser.

Inordertoobtaincompletemonitoringandprotectioncoveragethroughoutthecorporatenetwork,theentireairspacemustbe

coveredbySensors.PlannerprovidestheabilitytoplantheplacementofSensorsandimportthesecurityplansinto3Com®

AirProtectEnterprise.

PlacementofSensors

YoucanplaceSensorsontheLayoutwhenyouareinanyofthefollowingviews:

• APViews:CoverageView ,ChannelView ,LinkSpeedView ,InterferenceView ,RedundancyView ,SINRView

• SensorViews:CoverageView ,ThreatView,RedundancyView

• CalibrationView

Usethefollowingstepstoplacea

Sensoronthelayout:

1 GotoDeviceLibraryÆSensors.

2 DragaSensorfromtheSensornodeandplaceitonthelayout.

3 RecalculatethecoverageafteryouhaveplacedtheSensoronthelayout.

Note:IfyouhaveplacedonlySensorsonthelayout,youcanperform

thecalculationsonlyintheSensorviewsandnotintheAPviews.

HoweverifyouhaveplacedbothAPsandSensors,thenyoucanperformthecalculationsinanyoftheviews,andviewtherespective

devicecoverageintherespectiveview.