WESM zl Management and Configuration Guide WT.01.28 and greater

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Wireless Network Management
AP Detection
You can configure a radio as a single-channel detector or a dedicated detector in one
of two ways:
■ as part of an override configuration for a particular radio
For example, your organization might install an RP that is entirely dedicated to
searching out rogue APs.
Another reason to dedicate a radio as a detector is so it can monitor all nearby
RPs in your wireless network and take action if an RP experiences problems.
See “Network Self Healing” on page 12-88 for more information on how
detectors participate in neighbor recovery.
■ as part of the radio adoption default configuration for all radios of a certain type
If your network does not include any stations that use, for example, 802.11a
mode, then you could dedicate all 802.11a radios to scanning for rogue APs.
(Note, however, that these radios will only detect APs operating on an 802.11a
channel.)
Note You can enable the detector option in both radio adoption default configurations as
a security measure. In this case, all RP radios are adopted as detectors. Thus, a radio
cannot forward wireless traffic into your network until you determine that it is
authorized to do so and explicitly disable the detector option on it.
To configure AP detection, complete the following steps:
1. Enable AP detection.
a. Select Special Features > Access Point Detection > Configuration.