User's Guide

Introduction
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Rich Visualization of Heat maps
You can view radio frequency heat maps in various views. The AP coverage view is useful to find
out the available signal strength at each point. The sensor coverage view enables you to view the
detection and prevention zones of visibility for selected sensors. The color-coding scheme used
enhances the readability of the heat maps.
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Hierarchical management architecture ideal for geographically distributed sites
AirTight Management Console provides for hierarchical management of geographically distributed
sites. You can create a hierarchy of locations or a location tree. Each location folder could
represent a country and a child location folder could represent a state. These location folders could
then have city locations as child location folders. One of more buildings in the city office campus
can be represented as child location folders under the respective city location folders. Individual
floors or levels in the office space can be represented by location floors under the location folders
that represent buildings.
You can then define Wi-Fi/WIPS policies specific to each location. You can apply a common policy
to the location folders. These policies are automatically inherited by the child locations. This makes
management of related locations easy and convenient at the click of a button.
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Role-based administration and extensible configuration framework
The administration and operation of the Wi-Fi or WIPS solution through AirTight Management
Console is role-based. A user has restricted access to one or more locations that he is associated
with. He is able to view information and configure the console related to these locations only.
Information from other locations are not visible to him. A user is able to perform operations based
on his role. AirTight Management Console provides four distinct user roles-superuser,
administrator, operator and viewer.
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Configuration Wizard
When a user logs in to AirTight Management Console, and navigates to Dashboard or Events for
the first time, a configuration wizard guides the user on how to use these functionalities. The
wizard is functional only during the first time view.