Reference Guide

16 | AirWave and Dell PowerConnect W-Series Integration Strategies Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.6 | 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 16
l "When to Use WMS Offload" on page 16
l "When to Use RTLS" on page 16
l "When to Define AirWave as a Trap Host" on page 16
l "When to Use Channel Utilization" on page 17
When to Use Enable Stats
You want to pilot AMWS and doesn't want to make major configuration changes to their infrastructure or manage
configuration from AirWave.
NOTE: Enable Stats still pushes a small subset of commands to the controllers via SSH.
See "Enable Stats Utilizing AirWave" on page 17.
When to Use WMS Offload
l You have older Dell PowerConnect 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 18
n "Understanding WMS Offload Impact on Dell PowerConnect W-Series Infrastructure" on page 22
n "WMS Offload Details" on page 37
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.
NOTE: RTLS can negatively impact your Air Wave server's performance.
l See "Leveraging RTLS to Increase Accuracy" on page 39.
When to Define AirWave as a Trap Host
l You want to track IDS events within the AirWave UI.