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z AP system profile—Defines administrative options for the controller, including the IP addresses of the local,
backup, and master controllers, Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS) server values and the number of
consecutive missed heartbeats on a GRE tunnel before an AP reboots.
z Regulatory domain—Defines the AP’s country code and valid channels for both legacy and high-throughput
802.11a and 802.11b/g radios.
z Wired AP profile—Controls if 802.11 frames are tunneled to the controller using Generic Routing
Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels, bridged into the local Ethernet LAN, or configured for a combination of the
two (split-mode). This profile also configures the switching mode characteristics for the port, and sets the port
as either trusted or untrusted.
z Ethernet interface profile—Sets the duplex mode and speed of the AP’s Ethernet link. The configurable
speed is dependent on the port type, and you can define a separate Ethernet Interface profile for each
Ethernet link.
z Wired Port Profile—Allows you to specify a AAA profile for users connected to the wired port on an AP.
z AP Provisioning profile—Defines a group of provisioning parameters for an AP or AP group.
z AP Authorization Profile—Allows you to assign an to a provisioned but unauthorized AP to a AP group with
a restricted configuration profile.
z EDCA parameters profile (Station)—Client to AP traffic prioritization parameters, including Enhanced
Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) parameters for background, best-effort, voice and video queues. For
additional information on configuring this profile, see “Using the WebUI to configure EDCA parameters” on
page 566.
z EDCA parameters profile (AP)—AP to client traffic prioritization, including EDCA parameters for
background, best-effort, voice and video queues. For additional information on configuring this profile, see
“Using the WebUI to configure EDCA parameters” on page 566.
QoS Profiles
The QoS profiles configure traffic management and VoIP functions.
z VoIP call admission control profile— Dell’s Voice Call Admission Control limits the number of active voice
calls per AP by load-balancing or ignoring excess call requests. This profile enables active load balancing and
call admission controls, and sets limits for the numbers of simultaneous Session Initiated Protocol (SIP),
SpectraLink Voice Priority (SVP), Cisco Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP), Vocera or New Office
Environment (NOE) calls that can be handled by a single radio. For additional information on configuring
this profile, see “The VoIP Call Admission Control Profile” on page550.
z Traffic management profile—Specifies the minimum percentage of available bandwidth to be allocated to a
specific SSID when there is congestion on the wireless network, and sets the interval between bandwidth
usage reports.
RF Management Profiles
The profiles configure radio tuning and calibration, AP load balancing, and RSSI metrics.
z 802.11a radio profile—Defines AP radio settings for the 5 GHz frequency band, including the Adaptive Radio
Management (ARM) profile and the high-throughput (802.11n) radio profile.
z 802.11g radio profile—Defines AP radio settings for the 2.4 GHz frequency band, including the Adaptive
Radio Management (ARM) profile and the high-throughput (802.11n) radio profile. Each 802.11a and
802.11b radio profile includes a reference to an Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) profile.
If you want the ARM feature to dynamically select the best channel and transmission power for the radio,
verify that the 802.11a/802.11g radio profile references an active and enabled ARM profile. If you want to
manually select a channel for each AP group, create separate 802.11a and 802.11g profiles for each AP group
and assign a different transmission channel for each profile.