Deployment Guide

18 | AirWave and Dell Networking W-Series Integration Strategies Dell Networking W-AirWave 7.7 | Best Practices Guide
l Unless you enable stats on the local controllers in a master/local environment, the local controllers do not populate
their MIBs with any information about clients or rogue devices discovered/associated with their APs. Instead the
information is sent upstream to master controller.
Example Use Cases
The following are example use cases of integration strategies:
l "When to Use Enable Stats" on page 18
l "When to Use WMS Offload" on page 18
l "When to Use RTLS" on page 18
l "When to Define AirWave as a Trap Host" on page 18
l "When to Use Channel Utilization" on page 19
When to Use Enable Stats
You want to pilot AirWave, and you do not want to make major configuration changes to their infrastructure or manage
configuration from AirWave.
Enable Stats still pushes a small subset of commands to the controllers via SSH.
See "Enable Stats Utilizing AirWave" on page 19.
When to Use WMS Offload
l You have older Dell Networking W-Series infrastructure in a master/local environment and their master controller is
fully taxed. Offloading WMS will increase the capacity of the master controller by offloading statistic gathering
requirements and device classification coordination to AirWave.
l You want to use AirWave to distribute client and rogue device classification amongst multiple master controllers in a
master/local environment or in an All-Masters environment.
l See the following topics:
n "WMS Offload with AirWave" on page 20
n "Understanding WMS Offload Impact on Dell Networking W-Series Infrastructure" on page 24
n "WMS Offload Details" on page 43
When to Use RTLS
l A hospital wants to achieve very precise location accuracy (5 -15 feet) for their medical devices which are
associating to the WLAN.
l You want to locate items utilizing WiFi Tags.
RTLS can negatively impact your AirWave server's performance.
l See "Leveraging RTLS to Increase Accuracy" on page 45.
When to Define AirWave as a Trap Host
l You want to track IDS events within the AirWave UI.