Users Guide

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To create and place your campus:
1. Navigate to VisualRF > Floor Plans.
2. Navigate to the Add Campus menu.
3. Select Edit from the toolbar on the right window pane of the Network view, then click Add campus.
4. Enter the name of the campus, then click Save. A new campus icon appears on the campus background.
5. Select an appropriate network geographical background or upload a personalized image by right-clicking on
the background, and selecting one of the following options:
l World Map: browse and select any of the included maps.
l Custom Image: upload your own image as the map background.
6. Drag the new campus icon to the appropriate location on the map background, or right-click the background
and select Auto Arrange Campuses to arrange the campus in alphabetical order across the background.
Creating a New Building
1. Select the icon for the campus created in the previous procedure.
2. When the campus area opens, add the new building. Select Edit from the toolbar on the right window pane of
the Network view, then click Add building.
3. When the New Building window appears, enter the following information:
Field Description
Name Name of the building located in an existing campus.
Address Building or Campus address
Longitude &
Latitude
These fields are used to represent a building on Google Earth.
Ceiling Height The normal distance between floors in the building. This value can be overridden as
each floor is created, but this is the default value for every new floor added to the
system. This data element can be imported or exported to external planning tools like
Ekahau. It is not currently used by W-AirWave.
Attenuation Enter the attenuation loss in decibels between floors. This value can be overridden as
each floor is created, but this is the default value for every new floor added to the
system. This data element can be imported or exported to external planning tools like
Ekahau. It is not currently used by W-AirWave.
Table 150: New Building Fields and Descriptions
The WebUI also includes fields to configure client transmit power and desired speed values used for automatic
placement of APs into floors within this campus. These fields are located in the Advanced section of the floor
Properties menu.