WESM zl Management and Configuration Guide WT.01.28 and greater

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Wireless Network Management
Network Self Healing
You return to the Special Features > Self Healing > Neighbor Details screen, on
which you can confirm the neighbors in the Neighbor Radio Indices column for the
radio that you were editing. Note that the neighbors also display the edited radio in
their Neighbor Radio Indices column.
Configuring Radios to Automatically Detect Neighbors
Instead of manually configuring neighbors, you can have RP radios detect each other
and choose their own neighbors. In this case, each radio will select the three other
radios from which it receives the strongest signal.
To use this option, complete these steps:
1. Select Special Features > Self Healing and click the Neighbor Details tab.
2. Click the Detect Neighbors button. The Automatic Neighbor Detection screen
is displayed. (See Figure 12-67.)
Figure 12-67.Automatic Neighbor Detection Screen
Note As soon as you enable this feature, every RP disassociates its wireless stations and
begins scanning for neighboring RPs. For this reason, it is particularly important that
you configure self healing when the wireless network is inactive.
Remember also that any manually defined neighbors for radios are erased when you
click the Detect Neighbors button.
3. To confirm that you want RPs to begin detecting neighbors, click the Yes button.
After RPs have selected their neighbors, you must define the action that they will
take when a neighbor fails, as described in the next section.
Selecting the Self-Healing Action
The Wireless Edge Services zl Module can configure RPs to take one of several
actions in response to a failed neighbor. A radio can:
■ open its data rates so that it supports both 802.11g and 802.11b stations