Users Guide

Field Default Description
802.11a Radio
Profile
5_am
Defines AP radio settings for the 5 GHz frequency band, including the Adaptive
Radio Management (ARM) profile and the high-throughput (802.11n) radio
profile.
Select the pencil icon next to this field to edit or create additional profile
settings in the RF > 802.11a/g Radio page of Dell Networking W
Configuration.
802.11g Radio
Profile
2.4_am
Defines AP radio settings for the 2.4 GHz frequency band, including the
Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) profile and the high-throughput (802.11n)
radio profile. Each 802.11a and 802.11b radio profile includes a reference to
an Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) profile.
If you would like the ARM feature to select dynamically the best channel and
transmission power for the radio, verify that the 802.11a/802.11g radio profile
references an active and enabled ARM profile. If you want to manually select a
channel for each AP group, create separate 802.11a and 802.11g profiles for
each AP group and assign a different transmission channel for each profile.
The drop-down menu displays these options:
l default
l nchannel too high
l nchannel too low
Select the pencil icon next to this field to edit profile settings in the RF >
802.11a/g Radio page.
RF Optimization
Profile
default
Enables or disables load balancing based on a user-defined number of clients
or degree of AP utilization on an AP. Use this profile to detect coverage holes,
radio interference and STA association failures and configure Received signal
strength indication (RSSI) metrics.
Select the pencil icon next to this field to display the Profiles > RF section and
edit these settings as desired.
Event Thresholds
Profile
default
Defines error event conditions, based on a customizable percentage of low-
speed frames, non-unicast frames, or fragmented, retry or error frames. The
drop-down menu displays these options:
l default
l all additional RF profiles currently configured in Dell Networking W
Configuration
Select the pencil icon next to this field to display the Profiles > RF > Events
Threshold section and edit these settings as desired.
Wired AP Profile default
Controls whether 802.11 frames are tunneled to the controller using Generic
Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels, bridged into the local Ethernet LAN (for
remote APs), or are configured for combination of the two (split-mode). This
profile also configures the switching mode characteristics for the port, and sets
the port as either trusted or untrusted.
Select the pencil icon next to this field to display the Profiles > AP > Wired
page and adjust these settings as desired.
Ethernet Interface
0 Link Profile
default
Sets the duplex mode and speed of AP’s Ethernet link for ethernet interface 0.
The configurable speed is dependent on the port type, and you can define a
separate Ethernet Interface profile for each Ethernet link.
Select the pencil icon next to this field to display the Profiles > AP > Ethernet
Link details page and adjust these settings as desired.
Ethernet Interface
1 Link Profile
default
Sets the duplex mode and speed of AP’s Ethernet link for ethernet interface 1.
The configurable speed is dependent on the port type, and you can define a
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