Wireless/Redundant Edge Services xl Module Management and Configuration Guide WS.01.03 or greater

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Wireless Network Management
Network Self Healing
■ Neighbors no longer receive beacons from it.
An RP checks the beacons it has received every 30 seconds. If it has not
received beacons from a neighbor in the last two seconds, it reports that
neighbor as down. In other words, an RP considers a neighbor failed when
it loses contact with that neighbor for more than two seconds; however,
the RP only checks whether it has lost contact with a neighbor every 30
seconds.
■ Neighbors fail to detect WISP heartbeats from the radio.
Enabling Neighbor Recovery
To enable neighbor recovery:
1. Select Special Features > Self Healing.
2. Check the Enable Neighbor Recovery box.
3. Click Apply.
An RP radio only responds to the loss of a radio if that radio is defined as one
of its neighbors. To further configure neighbor recovery, you must:
■ specify neighbors
■ specify the action a radio takes if one of its neighbors fails
Access the Special Features > Self Healing > Neighbor Details screen.
The screen lists all RP radios adopted by this module, displaying this informa-
tion for each:
■ Radio Index
■ Description
■ Type
■ RP MAC Address
■ Action
■ Neighbor Radio Indices
When you first enable the feature, all radios display None in the Neighbor Radio
Indices column.
You can configure the neighbors in one of two ways: manually or with auto
detection.