User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Important Information
- Notices
- Description
- Installation
- Configuration
- Overview
- Accessing the Main Menu
- Configuring with the Main Menu
- Unit Identification
- Hardware/Software Revision
- System Software ROM Images
- System Current Status
- Network Configuration
- IP Filter Configuration
- RF Station Configuration
- Viewing Current RF Station Configuration
- Setting the Operating Mode
- General Equipment Setup for Performing RF Tests
- Setting Test Mode Timer Minutes
- Performing Link Monitor Test (Normal Mode)
- Performing Transmit and Receive Tests
- Performing the RSSI Test
- Setting the RF Transmit Status
- Setting the Link Monitor Period
- Setting Maximum Remote Distance (Base Station Only)
- Setting Link Monitor Remote Station Rank
- Adjusting Throttling (Remote Station Only)
- Setting Tx Power Automatically (Remote Station Only)
- Adjusting User Output Power Ceiling (Remote Station Only)
- Setting Signal Margin (Remote Station Only)
- Viewing Current Output Power Level Adjust
- Radio Module Configuration
- Viewing the Radio Module Configuration
- Setting Config Test Minutes
- Setting the Station Type
- Setting the Station Rank
- Setting the Center Frequency
- Setting Security Passwords
- Setting the Scrambling Code
- Setting the Acquisition Code
- Adjusting the Tx Power Level
- Setting a Base to Repeater Mode (Base Station Only)
- Setting System Symmetry Type (Base Station Only)
- Setting Dynamic Polling Level (Base Station Only)
- Setting Remote Unit RF Group
- Rebooting and Saving RF Module Configurations
- RF/Ethernet Statistics
- System Security
- System Commands
- Link Monitor Display
- Logout
- Setting Operating Mode with the Mode Button
- Command Line Interface
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix A: Planning Your Wireless Link
- Appendix B: Using HyperTerminal
- Appendix C: Configuring a Simple Data Network
- Appendix D: SNMP
- Appendix E: Technical Reference Information
- Appendix F: Menu Map
- Appendix G: Upgrading Software
- Glossary
- Index
Index
168 AWE 120-24 Installation & Configuration Guide
basic test setup 21
beamwidth
and antennas 120
defined 158
bench test 20
bench test kit
part number 12
best practices 107
bit error rate
defined 158
display in link monitor 103
blocking
defined 158
C
cable loss
and link budget variables 116
defined 158
calculating
EIRP 116
Fresnel radius 118
propagation loss 117
ceiling, user-specified power 63
center frequencies
configuring 74, 75
center frequency 74
change user password 94, 95
changing configuration with SNMP 136
clearance requirements
antennas 125
closed system 83
coaxial cable 158
collision
defined 158
co-located base stations, installing 27
command line 106
command line interface 106
community names 93
setting 34
config test timeout period 71
configuration menus
accessing 30
navigating 30
configuration settings
restoring factory configuration 101
configuring
acquisition code 77, 78
base station
maximum remote distance 60
repeater mode 80
system symmetry type 81
center frequencies 74, 75
community names 34
default gateway IP address 41
default system image file 99
Ethernet access 96
IP settings 41
network configuring 134
networks 130, 133
operating mode 49
passwords
login 94
radios 69–87
rank 73
remote access 96
remote station
RF group 85
throttling 62
scrambling code 76
SNMP NMS trap IP address 41
station type 72
test mode timer 51
timeout
login 97
unit
identification 34
name 32, 35
configuring with the Main Menu 32
connecting antenna and power 14
connecting PC to management port 15
connectors
10/100 BaseT 8
antenna 8
power supply 8
contact name 34
contentionless polling 1
defined 159
copyright notice ix
Corr Power 103
correlation power 103
and the link monitor display 103
cross-polarization discrimination
and antennas 121
defined 165
cumulative run-time 38
current image
rebooting 100
current output power 68
current run-time 38