The Network > Devices tab contains Map features that let you create geographic and topological maps of the devices and floor plans of wireless access points (APs) on your network. The advanced Map features include custom floor plan design, triangulated wireless client location, and wireless coverage maps to identify coverage trouble spots for your wireless network.
Overview
ExtremeCloud IQ Site Engine advanced Map features provide the following enhanced functionality:
- Detailed Floor Plans — Advanced map functionality lets you create detailed floor plans for both your wired and wireless networks. Using floor plans provides greater accuracy in calculations of wireless client location and displays wireless device coverage. You can upload and modify existing floor plans or create new floor plans from scratch. Use the Map drawing tools and menus to specify wall types, material, and thickness and then configure AP locations, type, and orientation.
- Wireless Location — Advanced location (triangulation) enhances client location results, improving visibility when investigating wireless trouble spots. Colored distribution displays high, medium, and low confidence locations, with the client icon displayed in the highest confidence location. Using floor plan data, a single client's location is triangulated based on the client's contact with multiple access points in the covered area. The floor plan wall type information helps determine the degradation of signal strength that occurs as a wireless radio signal passes through the walls. This helps define the probable distance of a client from a given access point. You need at least three access points to report triangulated location. You can also view time-lapse location coverage for a client, using historic triangulated location results.
- Wireless Coverage — This feature provide a graphical view of wireless coverage, allowing quick identification of possible coverage trouble spots. Wireless coverage is displayed using different colors to indicate radio signal strength based on the distance from access points included on the map. Coverage is determined by computing the approximate radio signal strength at fixed distances from access points, with floor plan and wall information used to provide accuracy in the signal strength computation.
- Import and Export Maps — The map import function gives you the ability to import Ekahau maps into floor plan maps. This function also lets you export floor plan maps to a ZIP file.
- Show Application Data in Maps — Use map links tied to ExtremeAnalytics network locations to display network application flow data in a map.
Prerequisites
In order to create or edit Maps, you must be a member of an authorization group assigned the OneView > Maps > Maps Read/Write Access capability.
The following requirements pertain to wireless location and coverage features:
- The ExtremeWireless Controller must be a model C25 or better, running firmware version 8.31 or higher.
- The Location Engine on the wireless controller must be enabled. (For information on how to enable the Location Engine, refer to the Extreme Networks Wireless Convergence Software User Guide.)
- The Access Points must be model 37xx, 38xx, or 39xx.
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