Service Manual

Dell PowerConnect W AirWave 7.4 | Best Practices Guide | 3
Contents
Preface....................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Document Organization.....................................................................................................................5
Note, Caution, and Warning Icons ..................................................................................................6
Contacting Support ...........................................................................................................................6
Chapter 1 Overview ............................................................................................................................... 7
Prerequisites for Integrating Dell PowerConnect W-Series Infrastructure............................. 7
Chapter 2 Configuring AirWave for Global Dell PowerConnect W-Series Infrastructure ........ 9
Disabling Rate Limiting in AMP Setup > General..........................................................................9
Entering Credentials in Device Setup > Communication ............................................................. 9
Setting Up Recommended Timeout and Retries .........................................................................10
Setting Up Time Synchronization................................................................................................... 11
Setting up NTP on AirWave....................................................................................................11
Manually Setting the Clock on a Controller .........................................................................11
Enabling Support for Channel Utilization and Statistics ............................................................ 11
AirWave Setup..........................................................................................................................12
Controller Setup (Master and Local).....................................................................................12
Chapter 3 Configuring a Dell PowerConnect W Group in AMP................................................... 13
Basic Monitoring Configuration..................................................................................................... 13
Advanced Configuration.......................................................................................................... ........ 14
Chapter 4 Discovering Dell PowerConnect
W-Series Infrastructure................................................................................................... 15
Discovering Master Controllers.....................................................................................................15
Local Controller Discovery..............................................................................................................17
Thin AP Discovery ............................................................................................................................17
Chapter 5 AMP and Dell PowerConnect W-Series Integration Strategies ............................... 19
Integration Goals ..............................................................................................................................19
Example Use Cases..........................................................................................................................20
When to Use Enable Stats ......................................................................................................20
When to Use WMS Offload.....................................................................................................20
When to Use RTLS....................................................................................................................20
When to Define AMP as Trap Host .......................................................................................20
When to use Channel Utilization............................................................................................20
Prerequisites for Integration ..........................................................................................................21
Enable Stats Utilizing AMP ........................................................................................................ ..... 21
WMS Offload Utilizing AMP............................................................................................................ 22
Define AMP as Trap Host using ArubaOS CLI.............................................................................22
ArubaOS Traps Utilized by AMP ............................................................................................23
Auth Traps .........................................................................................................................23
IDS Traps ...........................................................................................................................23
ARM Traps.........................................................................................................................24