Reference Guide

1050 | show rf dot11a-radio-profile Dell PowerConnect ArubaOS 5.0 Command Line Interface | Reference Guide
The output of this command includes the following parameters:
Parameter Description
Radio enable Shows if the AP has enabled or disabled 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
High throughput enable (radio) Name of a high-throughput profile referenced by this 802.11a 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.
Channel Channel number for the AP 802.11a/802.11n physical layer.
Beacon Period Time, in milliseconds, between successive beacon transmissions. The beacon advertises
the AP’s presence, identity, and radio characteristics to wireless clients.
Beacon Regulate If enabled, this option introduces randomness in the beacon generation so that multiple
APs on the same channel do not send beacons at the same time, which causes collisions
over the air. This option is disabled by default.
Transmit EIRP Maximum transmit power (EIRP) in dBm from 0 to 51 in .5 dBm increments. Further limited
by regulatory domain constraints and AP capabilities.
Advertise 802.11d and 802.11h
Capabilities
If enabled, the radio advertises its 802.11d (Country Information) and 802.11h (Transmit
Power Control) capabilities.
Spectrum load balancing The Spectrum load balancing feature helps optimize network resources by balancing
clients across channels, regardless of whether the AP or the controller is responding to
the wireless clients' probe requests.
If enabled, the controller compares whether or not an AP has more clients than its
neighboring APs on other channels. If an AP’s client load is at or over a predetermined
threshold as compared to its immediate neighbors, or if a neighboring Aruba AP on another
channel does not have any clients, load balancing will be enabled on that AP. This feature
is disabled by default.
RX Sensitivity Tuning Based
Channel Reuse
Shows if the channel reuse feature’s current operating mode, static, dynamic or disable.
z Static: This mode of operation is a coverage-based adaptation of the Clear Channel
Assessment (CCA) thresholds. In the static mode of operation, the CCA is adjusted
according to the configured transmission power level on the AP, so as the AP transmit
power decreases as the CCA threshold increases, and vice versa.
z Dynamic: In this mode, the Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) thresholds are based on
channel loads, and take into account the location of the associated clients. When you
set the Channel Reuse This feature is automatically enabled when the wireless
medium around the AP is busy greater than half the time. When this mode is enabled,
the CCA threshold adjusts to accommodate transmissions between the AP its most
distant associated client.
z Disable: This mode does not support the tuning of the CCA Detect Threshold.
RX Sensitivity Threshold If the Rx Sensitivity Tuning Based Channel reuse feature is set to static mode, this
parameter manually sets the AP’s Rx sensitivity threshold (-dBm). The AP will filter out and
ignore weak signals that are below the channel threshold signal strength. For example, if
the RX sensitivity threshold was set to -65 dBm, the AP would ignore signals with a
strength from -1 dBM to -64 dBm. If the value is set to zero, the feature will automatically
determine an appropriate threshold.