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Siemens CP 1515 User Manual

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Industrial Ethernet Wireless LAN RLM Manager, CP 1515 Manager

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When roaming throughout a wireless network environment with your
CP 1515 Manager station, you will be able to identify areas that may not
have adequate coverage, or that suffer from in-band interference from other
(wireless) equipment such as security gates, microwave ovens or photo
copiers.

To start the site monitor, select

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main CP 1515 Manager window. This will display the window pictured in

Figure 15 Site Monitor window

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tab - the primary tab to monitor the performance of your

wireless network (see

Site Monitor Tab (page 83)

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Ãtab - enables you to scan for neighboring SIMATIC NET IWL

networks and select such networks for monitoring (see

Selection Tab

(page 86)

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tab - allows you to enable, disable or configure the site

monitor logging options (see

Logging Measurement Data (page 92)

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tab - allows you to create user-defined Access Point RLM

names for easy identification of Access Points RLMs in the Site Monitor
window (see

AP Names Tab (page 90)

).

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The Site Monitor option only works in combination with Access
Points RLMs. When you select this option in a Peer-to-Peer
workgroup environment

1

, the Site Monitor window will not start

1.

Independent networks never include Access Points RLMs (see also chapter

2 Wireless

Configurations

)