Users Guide

Dell PowerConnect ArubaOS 5.0 | User Guide RF Plan | 99
Creating a Don’t Deploy Area
1. Click the New link in the Areas section under Floor 1 (named Entrance Level) to open the Area Editor.
2. Enter: Lobby in the Name text box in the Area Editor.
3. Select Don’t Deploy from the Type drop-down menu box.
4. Click Apply.
Notice that an yellow box appears near the center of the floor plan.
5. Use your mouse (or other pointing device) to place the cursor over the box.
Notice that the information you typed in the editor appears in the box. You see the name and type of area, as
well as the coordinates of the lower left corner and upper right corner of the box.
6. Using your mouse, left-click and drag the box to the area of your floor plan that you wish to designate are the
Lobby Area.
7. To position the Don’t Deploy box, drag one corner of the box to a corresponding corner and using one of the
corner handles of the box, stretch it to fit.
You can also position the box by entering values in the Left, Bottom, Right, and Top fields.
8. Click Save, then OK.
Running the AP Plan
In this section you run the algorithm that searches for the best place to put the APs.
1. From the navigation tree, click AP Plan under the Planning section. The AP Planning page appears.
You might want to zoom in on the floor plan. Zoom in using the zoom drop-down near the top of the AP
Planning page, or type a zoom factor in the text box at the left of the drop-down and press the enter key on
your keyboard.
Try entering a zoom factor of 400.
Notice that the number of required APs displays towards the top of the page, which represents the same value
that you saw when you modeled your APs on the AP Modeling Parameters page. Notice that the APs are not
yet displayed on the floor plan.
2. Click Initialize.
You should see the required total number of AP symbols appear on the two floor diagrams. Also notice that
the Suggested Access Points tables below each floor diagram have been populated with information about the
suggested APs for each corresponding floor.
3. Click Optimize.
After you Initialize the APs you must optimize the algorithm. The APs move around on the floor plans as the
algorithm is running.
The algorithm stops when the movement is less than a threshold value calculated based on the number of
APs. The threshold value may be seen in the status bar at the bottom of the browser window.
4. Click Save, then OK.
Note: The x = 0 and y = 0 coordinates correspond to the lower left corner of the layout space.
Note: To see the approximate coverage areas of each of the APs, select an AP type from the Approx. Coverage drop-down box
and select a rate from the Coverage Rate drop-down box.