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Referenced Profiles
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 PowerConnect 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:
 default
 nchannel too high
 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:
 default
 all additional RF profiles currently configured in Dell PowerConnect 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 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.
Table 2 Dell PowerConnect W Configuration > Dell PowerConnect W AP Groups Details, Settings and Default Values (Continued)
Field Default Description