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3. If you selected 802.11a radio profile, click the 802.11a radio profile drop-down list in the Profile Details
window pane and select NEW.
-or-
If you selected 802.11g radio profile, click the 802.11g radio profile drop-down list in the Profile Details
window pane and select NEW.
4. Enter a name for your new 802.11a or 802.11g radio profile.
5. Configure the radio settings described in Table 40, then click Apply to save your settings. The profile name
appears in the Profile list with your configured settings.
Table 40 802.11a/802.11g RF Management Configuration Parameters
Parameter Description
ARM profile Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) Profile.
Dell's proprietary Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technology maximizes WLAN performance
by dynamically and intelligently choosing the best 802.11 channel and transmit power for each Dell
AP in its current RF environment.
Every RF management profile references an ARM profile. If you specify an active and enabled ARM
profile, you do not need to manually configure the Channel and Transmit Power parameters for this
802.11a or 802.11g profile. For details on referencing an ARM profile, see “Assigning an ARM
Profile” on page 208.
High-throughput radio
profile
A high-throughput profile manages 40 Mhz tolerance settings, and controls whether or not APs
using this profile will advertise intolerance of 40 MHz operation. (This option is disabled by default,
allowing 40 MHz operation.)
A high-throughput profile also determines whether an AP radio using the profile will stop using the
40 MHz channels surrounding APs or stations advertise 40 Mhz intolerance. This option is enabled
by default. For details on referencing a high-throughput radio profile, see “Assigning a High-
throughput Profile” on page 207.
Radio Enable Enable transmissions on this radio band.
Mode Access Point operating mode. Available options are:
z am-mode: Air Monitor mode
z ap-mode: Access Point mode
z apm-mode: Access Point Monitor mode
z sensor-mode: RFprotect sensor mode
The default settings is ap-mode.
High throughput enable
(Radio)
Enable/Disable high-throughput (802.11n) features on the radio. This option is enabled by default.
Channel Transmit channel for this radio.
Beacon Period Beacon Period for the AP in msec. The minimum value is 60 msec, and the default value is 100 msec.
Transmit EIRP Maximum transmit EIRP in dBm from 0 to 51 in .5 dBm increments, or 127 for regulatory maximum.
Transmit power may be further limited by regulatory domain constraints and AP capabilities.
Advertise 802.11d and
802.11h Capabilities
Enable the radio to advertise its 802.11d (Country Information) and 802.11h (Transmit Power Control)
capabilities. This option is disabled by default.
Spectrum Load Balancing
Domain
Enter a spectrum load balancing domain name to manually create RF neighborhoods.
Use this option to create RF neighborhood information for networks that have disabled Adaptive
Radio Management (ARM) scanning and channel assignment.
z If spectrum load balancing is enabled in a 802.11g radio profile but the spectrum load balancing
domain is not defined, ArubaOS uses the ARM feature to calculate RF neighborhoods.
z If spectrum load balancing is enabled in a 802.11g radio profile and a spectrum load balancing
domain is also defined, AP radios belonging to the same spectrum load balancing domain will be
considered part of the same RF neighborhood for load balancing, and will not recognize RF
neighborhoods defined by the ARM feature.