Users Guide

Planning and Provisioning
VisualRF provides the capability to plan campuses, buildings, floors, and access points prior to the actual access point
deployment. The following procedure describes the workflow:
l "Creating a New Campus" on page 340
l "Creating a New Building" on page 340
l "Creating a Floor Plan" on page 342
l "Editing a Floor Plan Image" on page 342
l "Defining Floor Plan Boundaries" on page 344
l "Defining Floor Plan Regions" on page 345
l "Editing a Planning Region" on page 349
l "Adding Deployed Access Points onto the Floor Plan" on page 349
l "Adding Planned APs onto the Floor Plan" on page 350
l "Editing a Planning Region" on page 349
l "Auto-Matching Planned Devices" on page 351
l "Printing a Bill of Materials Report" on page 351
Creating a New Campus
Floors are associated with a building, and buildings are associated with a campus. In order to create a new floor, you
must first create a campus with at least one building. The steps to create a new campus vary, depending upon whether
you are using the default HTML5 UI, or the older flash-based UI.
To create and place your campus:
1. Navigate to VisualRF > Floor Plans.
2. Navigate to the Add Campus menu.
l If you are using the default HTML5 UI, select Edit from the toolbar on the right window pane of the Network
view, then click Add campus.
l If you are using the Flash-based UI, select the Add Campus icon in the upper left corner of the Floor Plans
window.
3. Enter the name of the campus, then click Save. A new campus icon appears on the campus background.
4. 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.
5. 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:
l If you are using the default HTML5 UI, select Edit from the toolbar on the right window pane of the Network
view, then click Add building.
l If you are using the Flash-based UI, select the Add Building icon in the upper left corner of the Floor Plans
window.
3. When the New Building window appears, enter the following information:
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