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About This Guide

This guide describes the various options for configuring the Meru Wireless LAN

System. The architecture and fundamental operations of system are described.

What’s New in this 5.1 Edition

The previous edition of this guide covered System Director 5.0. The new or changed

topics for this System Director 5.1 version of the Configuration Guide include:

 Batch adding AP-Interfaces to ESS Profile: The user is now allowed to add multiple

AP interfaces on the ESS Profile screen, rather than having to do it on a

one-by-one basis. Refer to “Add an ESS with the Web UI” on page 50 for further

information.

 A Description field is now added on the MAC Filtering (ACL) Configuration screen.

Refer to the MAC Filtering (ACL) Configuration topic of the System Director 5.1

Online Help.

 The maximum allowed link-probe duration value has been increased to 32000

minutes. This is implemented in order to help users who have a WAN connectivity

issue come up over a weekend, as the previous maximum (7200) would result in

system reboots upon returning to the office on Monday. Refer to “Add and

Configure an AP with the Web UI” on page 206 for further configuration details.

 A new field KeepAlive Timeout(seconds) is included in the AP Table - Update

screen. This field has been included to assist with remote AP issues in which an

AP in a relatively inaccessibly location would lose connectivity with the main

controller and start looking for a new Master too quickly. Users may now specify

how long the AP waits before beginning the scanning process. Refer to “Add and

Configure an AP with the Web UI” on page 206 for further information.

 An alarm named Radio Failure is generated when the Radio fails to turn

operational during Initial bootup. Refer to “Alarms” on page 319 for further

information.

 A new feature N+1 with Non-Revertive mode is now introduced to control the

fail back operation. Refer to “N+1 with Non-Revertive Mode” on page 93 for

further information.

 A new feature 802.1x Termination is introduced to perform the configuration on

per-security profile basis. This is intended to help users with a deployment that

implements the Starnet Radius Server. Refer to “Configure a Security Profile

With the Web UI” on page 114 for further information.